The COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Australia has begun

[mviy]

With our limited number of cases there can be precautionary measures to take people to hospital. I think in QLD anyone that gets COVID goes to hospital?

 

[Princess Fiona]

With our limited number of cases there can be precautionary measures to take people to hospital. I think in QLD anyone that gets COVID goes to hospital?

NSW doesn’t do precautionary admissions for Covid (except those aged care residents) they never have. Nearly all are managed as hospital in the home.
Anyone admitted right now with Covid in NSW needs inpatient treatment.
It’s 10% currently of the cases and the majority of our cases are in working age people.

 

[Lynda2475]

Pretty sure 4 people from the nursing were transferred, the 3 positives + wife (who was negative) of the 3rd positive who would not agree to go without her.



SMH reports:

There are currently 43 people hospitalised with coronavirus in NSW, with 10 of those in ICU, and four of those on ventilators.

Dr Chant said 14 people under the age of 55 have been hospitalised with COVID. Of those, there are seven under the age of 35.

Of the 10 in ICU, one is in their 20s, one is in their 30s, one is in their 50s, five in 60s, 2 in 70s.

Dr Chant indicated they would share vaccination status of those hospitalised tomorrow.



Roughly a quarter of hospitalisations in this outbreak have been in people aged 35 and under. Among the 395 local cases recorded between June 15 and July 7, 156 were in people aged 20 to 39 – nearly 40 per cent of all cases.

During the three months of the Crossroads cluster, which began in July last year, there were 171 cases in their 20s and 30s (30 per cent of all cases). The age group made up just 25 per cent of cases during the Avalon and Berala clusters over summer.

Fifty-two of the 395 cases recorded in the first three weeks of the Bondi cluster were aged 60 and over – just 13 per cent of all cases.

In contrast, people in this age group made up 50 of the cases in the Avalon and Berala clusters (23 per cent) and 101 cases in the Crossroads cluster (18 per cent).

More cases, young people make up half of the infected: Why this outbreak is different

There is a sense of frustration among young people who are bearing the brunt of lockdown restrictions - and now case numbers - while being at the bottom of the queue to get vaccinated.

www.smh.com.au

 

[Flying mermaid]

Vaccination stakes update.

well a little bit depressing. As predicted we are rapidly overhauling Albania and Suriname - hopefully next week. Unfortunately though Belize has overtaken us and booted us down to 79th place. However they may not hold onto it, as I have noticed their vaccination effort is quite sporadic. Presumably as they get vaccine supplies (they use AZ).

goals for next week are to finally get higher than 78th!

 

[MooTime]

Vaccination stakes update.

well a little bit depressing. As predicted we are rapidly overhauling Albania and Suriname - hopefully next week. Unfortunately though Belize has overtaken us and booted us down to 79th place. However they may not hold onto it, as I have noticed their vaccination effort is quite sporadic. Presumably as they get vaccine supplies (they use AZ).

goals for next week are to finally get higher than 78th!

Thanks for that info FM.
Where'd you think we'd get into the rankings if we hit 1M pretty much weekly average from here on in till years end.
what's the calcs on that?

top 20, top 10?

 

[Flying mermaid]

Thanks for that info FM.
Where'd you think we'd get into the rankings if we hit 1M pretty much weekly average from here on in till years end.
what's the calcs on that?

top 20, top 10?

I would be happy if we made it into the top 30 to be honest. I think the key is going to be how successfully we can keep motivating people to come forward. A lot of the successful countries like the USA are now stalling because they are having trouble getting certain segments to get vaccinated. Australia has a history of supporting childhood vaccinations so if we can convince people that getting vaccinated themselves will protect the kids who can’t get vaccinated we could find ourselves moving up rapidly. August will be the interesting month I think, as more Pfizer becomes available.

 

[burmans]

Vaccination stakes update.

well a little bit depressing. As predicted we are rapidly overhauling Albania and Suriname - hopefully next week. Unfortunately though Belize has overtaken us and booted us down to 79th place. However they may not hold onto it, as I have noticed their vaccination effort is quite sporadic. Presumably as they get vaccine supplies (they use AZ).

goals for next week are to finally get higher than 78th!

Your posts so remind me of the quote commonly attributed to Einstein about insanity. We are doing cough, and it’s not going to change in a hurry.

 

[mviy]

We have a lot of people that have had AZ first doses coming due to get their second doses. That plus Pfizer doses ramping up should see our fully vaccinated percentage climb quickly for the rest of the year.

 

[Flying mermaid]

Your posts so remind me of the quote commonly attributed to Einstein about insanity. We are doing cough, and it’s not going to change in a hurry.

The optimist vs the pessimist. I think it was part of a discussion with you where I said that if things went well we could be 40% first jabs and 10 to 15% fully vaccinated by the end of July. I must admit I even thought I was being a bit over optimistic and yet here we are 9 days in at 32.4 and 10.6. It’s going better than it was. Optimists have a happier life

 

[Flying mermaid]

Dr FM told me that she is hearing from colleagues in the UK that vaccinations have made a huge difference. High case numbers, but hospitals not overwhelmed and death rates similar to other viruses. This is what we need to get to…..hopefully by the summer.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Dr FM told me that she is hearing from colleagues in the UK that vaccinations have made a huge difference. High case numbers, but hospitals not overwhelmed and death rates similar to other viruses. This is what we need to get to…..hopefully by the summer.

Is their vacccination rate about 50% (fully) + 20% (one dose)?

 

[bcworld]

Is their vacccination rate about 50% (fully) + 20% (one dose)?

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations

Data above is for adult population.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Dr FM told me that she is hearing from colleagues in the UK that vaccinations have made a huge difference. High case numbers, but hospitals not overwhelmed and death rates similar to other viruses. This is what we need to get to…..hopefully by the summer.

And full crowds of vaccinated people at Wimbledon while we were forced to cancel the Melbourne F1 GP and Phillip Island.

 

[drron]

The optimist vs the pessimist. I think it was part of a discussion with you where I said that if things went well we could be 40% first jabs and 10 to 15% fully vaccinated by the end of July. I must admit I even thought I was being a bit over optimistic and yet here we are 9 days in at 32.4 and 10.6. It’s going better than it was. Optimists have a happier life

An optimist thinks the glass is half full.
The pessimist thinks it is half empty.
The engineer thinks the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

I used to be a pessimist.I am now an optimist and I do find myself being much happier now.

 

[mviy]

The optimist view is that today we are a day closer to freedom than we were yesterday. Each day we are getting that little bit closer, the remaining wait is getting shorter. Let's stay positive.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Vaccination update till Friday 9th July inclusive.

So including children (ie all ages) that is just over one in four Australians who have had at least one dose.

 

[mviy]

Understandably with the situation in NSW they've administered a lot of doses there. Let's hope we continue to see strong numbers.

 

[DC3]

Understandably with the situation in NSW they've administered a lot of doses there. Let's hope we continue to see strong numbers.

Supply is the problem, that’s why it’s not available to all ages.

 

[mviy]

Supply is only an issue if you don't want AZ or have some health issue that means it's not advisable to take it.

AZ is available to all adults with permission from your GP.

I'm under 40 and have had AZ and am still here. Several million young people have had it overseas.

Even though AZ has a recommended 12 week gap between doses that's still short enough time to get fully vaccinated well before Pfizer is made available to everyone who wants that.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Thanks.

Weird that the PM would quote a fact yesterday (something to the effect "Israel is highest fully vaccinated rate [at the moment] in the world") - I guess UK just surpassed to date and the 20% one dose takers will almost certainly get their 2nd dose.

Perhaps a sign of the defeatist (or is there a better description?) attitude that not many on this forum think Australia can't get to 80% - or keep proffering 'oh Australia should open up not have restrictions if we offer 80% the vaccine".

UK's freedom day is this week (was meant to be a couple of weeks ago) , right? - On track for 86+% within 12 weeks (I assume Astra Zeneca timeline dosage). Nice.

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https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations

Data above is for adult population.