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Originally Posted by DiscoDB
I've had a fair bit to do with ICU over the last 20 years or so and you can't just wander in - the journo must've therefore arranged it with the family.
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Originally Posted by DiscoDB
I've had a fair bit to do with ICU over the last 20 years or so and you can't just wander in - the journo must've therefore arranged it with the family.
Genomic testing overnight has confirmed the UK variant in the current NZ situation. This testing indicated it cannot be linked to a case in Managed Isolation or Quarantine and so the assumption that it came via international flight crew is being investigated. The mother of the family works at the laundry facility of LSG Sky Chef at Auckland Airport.
Yes - that sounds more likely than having to sneak in to ICU.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arapiles
If I was subject to a smear campaign being run by the government I would be arranging to speak to a journalist to tell my side of the story as well.
Interesting that they are now saying he is not lying, but an audit shows no record. Doesn’t this now point to a health official not taking proper records of discussions? Shouldn’t they now interview the family to confirm who he discussed this with given his description of the conversations is quite specific.
I guess the standard defence will be “I don’t recall”.
On the good news front. POMs have been racing "Covid: Vaccine given to 15 million in UK as PM hails 'extraordinary feat' "
Well done them. Can we do better faster??? Our first arrival is this week[thumbsupbig] Getting ready for my staff and Doctors.
Have to chuckle as the Government or quasi Fed/Gov training/information session is scheduled for Docs and me for the 23rd of Feb.
We'll see - I think we are dragging our heals on it to be honest.Quote:
Originally Posted by NavyDiver
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Originally Posted by Homestar
Smart move. We know now that injecting all my staff at once is NOT a great idea. As with several vaccines, it is likely some will feel a bit off for a day after it. Having all the Doctors, nurse aged care staff, police, prison officers take the next day off would be .......
It will be a 'batch process' to ensure our health care and others are not all absent or the few left standing are not overwhelmed [thumbsupbig]
The first doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine have touched down in Australia as preparations continue for the first stage of the national rollout, Health Minister Greg Hunt says.
Key points:
- 142,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine landed in Sydney on Monday afternoon
- Frontline health and quarantine workers, as well as those in aged care, will begin to receive the vaccine next Monday
- The Government expects 60,000 doses to be rolled out by the end of the month
People will begin receiving the vaccine from Monday, February 22, with more than 142,000 doses arriving in Sydney just after midday today
So all we need now are at least another 23,858,000 doses to arrive [bigwhistle]Quote:
Originally Posted by NavyDiver
There will be a 1,000,000 doses a week coming out of CSL in Melbourne by the end of March, production is well under way. [thumbsupbig]Quote:
Originally Posted by trout1105
The consensus of the W.H.O. team's investigation into the origin of coronavirus is leaning heavily to bats.
[ full story in Walrus.]
"Rabbits were there, rabbit carcasses. A farm with rabbits could have been really critical. There was talk about badgers, and in China, when they say badger, that means ferret badger. It’s a mustelid, related to weasels. Animals were coming into that market that could have carried the coronavirus. They could have been infected by bats somewhere else in China and brought it in. So that’s clue No. 1.
But if you were to say which pathway would you put the most weight on, I think the virus emerging either in Southeast Asia or Southern China from bats, getting into a domesticated wildlife farm. I’ve been to many of these, and they often have mixed species — civets, ferret badgers, raccoon dogs. Those animals would be able to get infected from bats.