Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[Flying mermaid]

It is what we have to do. Sad times.

It is - Dr FM said in another week you could probably feel relaxed about it but at the moment no one has any idea whether it will spread further.

edit - she has a good friend who has just returned to Brisbane from a year in Melbourne and of course Dr FM has had a crazy year in London. She said the two of them are feeling like the lockdowns are following them

 

[jase05]

A month or so back when we were debating on where to book for Easter we narrowed it down to the Sunshine Coast or Hobart. Mrs Jase wanted to go back to the SC and I wanted to head back to Hobart and this was one of those rare times I won the argument.
I’ve reminded her about it a couple of times already

 

[kamchatsky]

Score check.

At the first drinks break it’s Qld 16, Rest of Australia nil

well we know who is going to win the State of Origin 2021!

 

[Must...Fly!]

Positive case visited an event in the GC

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Disappointing but hopefully they were outdoors the whole time and this will amount to nothing.

 

[Seat0B]

The difference being that it is the Federal Govt managing immigration. Well, I'm hanging on to that thought. Have to.

No emoji for ‘I sure hope you’re right’. Although it hasn’t seemed to make any difference so far

 

[Kendall Roy]

NSW Health reacted too little, too late, with the Ruby Princess.

NSW Health reacted too little, too late, at Cross Roads.

NSW Health reacted too little, too late, in the Northern Beaches

and now, in the Northern Rivers...

NSW Health reacts too little....


IMO the vast majority of upper level management at NSW Health should have lost their employment ages ago!

Zealot like belief they are "gold standard" is insane - IMO you throw everything you have at this virus mutation, hard and fast!

Ruby Princess aside, the majority of NSW residents disagree and are very happy with Gladys and NSW Health's management of the pandemic.

 

[Tiki]

I would much prefer Gladys to be running things here in QLD. She is the only premier who has handled things logically and competently.

I am very frustrated with AP's mismanagement.

 

[jakeseven7]

Just heard on news Federal government has accused QLD CHO + QLD government of hoarding vaccines and not administering them all.... which could have helped prevent the spread if they'd bothered to vaccinate their front line workers.

This is going to be fun to watch.

EDIT:

Found the news article:

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States ordered to stop hoarding COVID-19 vaccine doses​

Federal health authorities have told states to stop hoarding COVID-19 vaccine doses after two separate clusters were linked back to unvaccinated healthcare workers from a Brisbane hospital.

Health authorities have linked 18 cases to the outbreaks, which were unknowingly spread by a nurse and doctor from the Princess Alexandra Hospital.

From Wednesday, Queensland health workers must have received at least one vaccine dose before treating COVID-positive patients after the latest outbreaks, which triggered Brisbane’s three-day lockdown.

Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said inoculation of staff in COVID-19 wards was not mandatory from the beginning of the rollout because she thought there was not enough vaccine doses available.

States ordered to stop hoarding COVID-19 vaccine doses

The call came as Queensland health workers were told they must receive at least one vaccine dose before treating COVID-positive patients after the latest outbreaks in Brisbane.

www.theage.com.au

Well some good news the QLD CHO has been forced into a backflip and will stop hoarding vaccines and will complete all front line workers in 48 hours to assist stop the virus spreading.

Pity it took a national media story to uncover this and put enough heat on them to make it happen.

Moving all COVID positive HQ patients to a facility where you don’t bother vaccinating your staff, even when you have plenty. That’s just negligent at worst and just plain stupid at best....

Queensland's vaccine rollout ramped up as all frontline healthcare workers to be vaccinated 'in next 48 hours'

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk insists the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is on track for frontline healthcare workers, despite criticism from the state opposition that the pace is "unacceptable".

www.abc.net.au

 

[Pushka]

No emoji for ‘I sure hope you’re right’. Although it hasn’t seemed to make any difference so far

Yep. There is this .

 

[drron]

There really does need to be an inquiry into QLD Health over these outbreaks.How have there been 2 transmissions at the one QLD hospital within a month.
Why were both via unvaccinated front line staff.
Where non clinical staff vaccinated before those actually working in a covid ward.

These questions need to be answered especially as QLD could obviously have vaccinated twice the number of front line staff by now if they had followed the Commonwealth advice.Which begs the question would the current clusters have occurred if they had done that?

 

[justinbrett]

I am surprised QF and JQ haven’t really cancelled many flights between SYD & NTL to BNE. VA have cancelled quite a lot.

Is it because people aren’t cancelling their bookings or do you think QF group would rather fly empty aircraft than further undermine confidence?

 

[jakeseven7]

I am surprised QF and JQ haven’t really cancelled many flights between SYD & NTL to BNE. VA have cancelled quite a lot.

Is it because people aren’t cancelling their bookings or do you think QF group would rather fly empty aircraft than further undermine confidence?

Well, Qantas carries more freight than VA2.
They also carry a majority of essential workers.
VA2 is much more leisure and budget conscious travellers these days, more likely to cancel straight up.
That’s all I could think of.

 

[milehighclub]

I am surprised QF and JQ haven’t really cancelled many flights between SYD & NTL to BNE. VA have cancelled quite a lot.

There are 9 cancellations at a glance between QF and JQ from SYD to BNE.

Seems to be a decent amount of people travelling still.

 

[justinbrett]

There are 9 cancellations at a glance between QF and JQ from SYD to BNE.

For QF/JQ I count 8/20 flights from SYD cancelled today and 1/4 from NTL. Tomorrow it’s 2/23 flights from SYD and 1/6 from NTL.

For VA it’s 6/10 cancelled from SYD and 1/2 from NTL. Tomorrow it’s 4/10 from SYD and 2/3 from NTL.
Definitely higher proportion from VA and looks like they are cancelling earlier.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

It is - Dr FM said in another week you could probably feel relaxed about it but at the moment no one has any idea whether it will spread further.

edit - she has a good friend who has just returned to Brisbane from a year in Melbourne and of course Dr FM has had a crazy year in London. She said the two of them are feeling like the lockdowns are following them

Well in that case can they both please avoid Melbourne Thank you.

 

[jakeseven7]

Enormous testing numbers in Victoria yesterday, clearly sweeping through alot of the Queenslanders / returned travellers.

Lets hope lots of testing from other states follow.

 

[jase05]

2 new community cases in QLD, both linked to PA nurse. One of which is a nurse who had been vaccinated.

 

[blackcat20]

Spent some time recently in Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne & still now after 28+ covid free stretch they still enforce name etc details, temp check, number of questions on entry along with new mask to use requirement they give you. Number of security guards to make sure of this & lift access restricted to track path of visitors.

Melbourne is really on top of many aspects, maybe excluding HQ!

Alfred still doing the same, for staff and visitors.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

2 new community cases in QLD, both linked to PA nurse. One of which is a nurse who had been vaccinated.

General question: is it a vacationing nurse? If so, that might sound better

 

[antycbr]

Well some good news the QLD CHO has been forced into a backflip and will stop hoarding vaccines and will complete all front line workers in 48 hours to assist stop the virus spreading.

Pity it took a national media story to uncover this and put enough heat on them to make it happen.

Moving all COVID positive HQ patients to a facility where you don’t bother vaccinating your staff, even when you have plenty. That’s just negligent at worst and just plain stupid at best....

Queensland's vaccine rollout ramped up as all frontline healthcare workers to be vaccinated 'in next 48 hours'

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk insists the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is on track for frontline healthcare workers, despite criticism from the state opposition that the pace is "unacceptable".

www.abc.net.au

Plus the movement into a hospital rather than a hot/medi hotel has in my opinion increased the risk significantly, particularly as there is a large number of staff interactions in a hospital and no surveillance testing of the staff.

It’s a recipe for disaster as we have seen here.