CV and mad panic behaviour

[ElwoodBlues1]

From the Age article:

So, the system of recording active cases that Victoria has used throughout the pandemic is now "misrepresentation by a corrupt government".  I'd rather go with the opinion of the ICU practitioners quoted in the Age article.

The number of folk in the ICU beds has everything to do with the vaccination rates. 98% of COVID ICU cases are unvaccinated.  If they were vaccinated, the probability of them getting COVID and requiring an ICU bed would be significantly lower.  Practically, it's the unvaccinated 5% (25% in some municipalities) that are putting our ICUs under pressure.

The senior intensive care physician, who spoke to The Age on the condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak publicly, said despite a decline being reported in the official daily hospital numbers last month, the true number of COVID-19 patients in ICU had been hovering near 190 every day for weeks.

“You’ve got a system in Victoria that’s so close to being overwhelmed it has just skated by over the last few weeks,” the doctor, who works at a large Melbourne hospital, said.

I'll agree to disagree  and like I said I'll go with the ICU Dr's and staff working in the Melbourne Hospitals who are on the front line and the article confirms what I have been told by people who know staff at those hospitals. Staff have been deterred from speaking  so it must be serious when senior physicians are speaking off the record to the media like "the Age"
There needs to be an Australian standard in reporting cases and I find it confusing how the states report differently especially the two largest and main affected in NSW and Victoria.