CV and mad panic behaviour

[ElwoodBlues1]

NSW are in all sorts of shizen, her announcement is about softening the coming blows, within the next week or two there is a better than 50/50 chance they'll be wishing they still had only 400 a day!

I heard a Sydney based Doc on the radio today saying the metro ICU's are just about cooked, not just because of patient numbers, but because they have so so many staff unavailable in isolation, with the remainder working OT double and triple shifts. He said it can't continue, and if the public don't break from it's hell bent track then the health system will break!

It's quite hard to get hold of confirmed NSW stats, I have no idea why, they seem to guard everything making it very hard to cross check those claims!

This is exactly a consequence of not locking down early enough or hard enough, and as a result the @Thryleon predictions about things getting much much worse for the health sector before they get better will likely come true!

Thry is right about getting worse, Frankston Hospital had a lot of staff infected last year at the peak and had to go on bypass, close wards etc but those stats wont make the news, same this year with Western health at Sunshine Footscray as I remarked before.
One of the problems with ICU staff is they take a while to train up, you just cant pick nurses up off any ward and dump them in ICU and expect them to do the job properly...you can have the beds and equipment but you get staff sick/infected and then you dont have many backups in those specialty areas.
Pandemics quickly highlight the gaps in the healthcare system and the lack of resources, State Premier's and the Fed Government need to fund the building of more hospitals, train and pay specialist staff properly and stop relying on the good nature of these caregivers to save the day. Ditto for Paramedics....they found money to increase the drug testing of these life savers but cant be bothered fixing the problems in the system which lead to the mental breakdowns and staff leaving the job..