(09-26-2021, 09:58 PM)capcom link Wrote:https://www2.health.vic.gov.au/ageing-and-aged-care/residential-aged-care

Quote:Residential aged care is for older people who can no longer live at home. Services provide continuous supported care ranging from help with daily tasks and personal care to 24-hour nursing care. People wanting to find out more information about residential aged care should visit the My Aged Care website or call the My Aged Care contact centre on 1800 200 422.

The Commonwealth Government is responsible for the provision of residential aged care services in Victoria. This includes regulation for quality of care standards and funding under the Aged Care Act 1997.

Residential aged care services are delivered by a range of providers including not-for-profit, private and public sector organisations.

The Victorian Government plays a key role in residential aged care through its funding contribution and support for high quality care in public sector residential aged care services (PSRACS).

(09-26-2021, 08:58 AM)Mav link Wrote:I'd probably prefer real world data. The problem with anecdotal evidence is that it usually comes from a small sample. For instance, if you listen to anti-vax or vaccine-sceptical health workers, you'll probably get a pretty skewed version of reality. Vaccine mandates are the way to go, even if some health workers will fall by the wayside. But I'd be happy for the Govt. to throw some money into raising staffing levels.

(09-26-2021, 11:47 PM)ElwoodBlues1 date Wrote:The real world data is from hospital administrators beholding to the government's who fund them and who set targets for them to achieve and who lie to the public to protect their funding and cover up mistakes to prevent expensive payouts.
I'll stick with the people on the front line who do the work..

(09-27-2021, 12:18 AM)LP link Wrote:It's not a big conspiracy, the workers just see their own little section and their wider/global opinions are coloured by rumours and whispers of disenfranchised and sometimes paranoid associates.

It's the same in every big business, look at construction now held ransom by a clear minority, health is no different!

It's a weird nexus, because at the moment "The Man" has less control than ever before, not being on the ground in the trenches has greatly diminished the influence of corporate psychopaths. Yet the whisper network is worse than ever before, because that is the way the network works best not because things are better or worse than before. Now the power of "The Man" has moved into the very loud voice of the previously isolated radical who have gained a voice!

Finally, it's human nature to need someone to blame, the bad is always someone's fault, "Someone did it to me!" It's never just a outcome driven by circumstances.

Just like Dan's fault for lockdowns, Big Pharma corruption banning Ivermectin, the China virus, the Wuhan Lab, it's all finger-pointing!

(09-27-2021, 05:55 AM)dodge date Wrote:Thanks for your perspective, Shawny.

The playground thing punished kids for parents taking far too many liberties.  They were often full with organised catch ups, no masks or social distancing - not what was supposed to happen, which is why they were banned until the political heat got too much.

(09-27-2021, 05:55 AM)dodge date Wrote:On another note, the guy who helped organise the protests wants his legal costs covered.  Not exactly taking responsibility for your actions, is it?  I wonder how much he's going to raise, now that it's been publicised.

Quote:"Oral antivirals have the potential to not only curtail the duration of one's covid-19 syndrome, but also have the potential to limit transmission to people in your household if you are sick," said Timothy Sheahan, a virologist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill who has helped pioneer these therapies.

Antivirals are already essential treatments for other viral infections, including hepatitis C and HIV. One of the best known is Tamiflu, the widely prescribed pill that can shorten the duration of influenza and reduce the risk of hospitalization if given quickly.

The medications, developed to treat and prevent viral infections in people and animals, work differently depending on the type. But they can be engineered to boost the immune system to fight infection, block receptors so viruses can't enter healthy cells, or lower the amount of active virus in the body.

At least three promising antivirals for covid are being tested in clinical trials, with results expected as soon as late fall or winter, said Carl Dieffenbach, director of the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who is overseeing antiviral development.

"I think that we will have answers as to what these pills are capable of within the next several months," Dieffenbach said.

The top contender is a medication from Merck & Co. and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics called molnupiravir, Dieffenbach said. This is the product being tested in the Kellys' Seattle trial. Two others include a candidate from Pfizer, known as PF-07321332, and AT-527, an antiviral produced by Roche and Atea Pharmaceuticals.

They work by interfering with the virus's ability to replicate in human cells. In the case of molnupiravir, the enzyme that copies the viral genetic material is forced to make so many mistakes that the virus can't reproduce. That, in turn, reduces the patient's viral load, shortening infection time and preventing the kind of dangerous immune response that can cause serious illness or death.

So far, only one antiviral drug, remdesivir, has been approved to treat covid. But it is given intravenously to patients ill enough to be hospitalized, and is not intended for early, widespread use. By contrast, the top contenders under study can be packaged as pills.