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Yea big news. Funny it's called code Brown.
Yea big news. Funny it's called code Brown.The pressure on our hospital situations with the current spread of Omicron is already immense. Victoria has called a Code Brown to enable re organisation of hospitals to deal with the pressure of thousands of very sick COVID patients.
Victoria to issue emergency Code Brown alert for its health services due to Omicron wave
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An emergency response plan will come into effect for Victorian hospitals from Wednesday as the sector buckles under Omicron.
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The Victorian government will issue a statewide Code Brown for its health service, which may postpone leave for thousands of staff and defer non-essential services.
Key points:
- Code Brown will allow hospitals to make staffing and resource changes to prioritise critical patients
- There are currently 1,152 COVID-19 hospitalisations
- Teachers and emergency services, prisons, freight and transport worker will be exempt from close contact isolation rules from tonight
It is the first time that the emergency setting has been activated in multiple hospitals across the state.
A Code Brown is usually reserved for external emergencies such as natural disasters and mass casualty events.
It formalises and streamlines the health system's emergency management in response to the growing number of people in hospitals.
The Code Brown will come into force at midday on Wednesday for all metropolitan hospitals and six regional hospitals, with each site to put in place different strategies to respond to the activation.
Acting Minister for Health James Merlino said the healthcare system was buckling under the Omicron wave, and it was "the right time" to issue the Code Brown to anticipate a peak in hospitalisations which could see more than 2,500 COVID patients.
Health sector facing ‘challenges not seen in a century’ as Victoria issues rare Code Brown
Code Brown will be activated at midday tomorrow for all metropolitan hospitals and six regional hospitals, allowing them to redeploy staff and ask some workers to postpone leave in order to respond to a surge in patients.www.abc.net.au
Dentists are not engaged in clinical medicine so her involvement in a study on a drug she does not use is unusual.
The real point was that your referenced study was withdrawn or not accepted for publication by most medical journals until it finally surfaced open sourced
It highlights just how much of the statements put out by the experts are based on considerations other than 'the science'.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday clarified its stance on various kinds of masks, acknowledging that the cloth masks frequently worn by Americans do not offer as much protection as surgical masks or respirators.
While this disparity is widely known to the general public, the update marks the first time the C.D.C. has explicitly addressed the differences. The agency’s website also no longer refers to a shortage of respirators.
The change comes as infections with the highly contagious Omicron variant continue to soar. Some experts have said that cloth masks are inadequate to protect from the variant, and have urged the C.D.C. to recommend respirators for ordinary citizens.
The agency did not go that far. Its updated language now says that “a respirator may be considered in certain situations and by certain people when greater protection is needed or desired.”
The previous version of the recommendations said individuals may choose to use a disposable N95 respirator instead of a mask “when supplies are available.”
N95 respirators, so named because they can filter out 95 percent of all airborne particles when used correctly, were in short supply early in the pandemic. At the time, the C.D.C. and the World Health Organization both repeatedly said that ordinary citizens did not need to wear masks unless they were sick and coughing.
The C.D.C. also said regular surgical masks were “an acceptable alternative” for doctors and nurses when interacting with a patient infected with the coronavirus — a move that angered medical personnel.
Critics charged that the recommendations were based not on what would best protect Americans, and were instead prompted by a shortage of N95 respirators.
When the C.D.C. finally recommended masks for ordinary Americans, it emphasized cloth face coverings. It took months more for the C.D.C. and the W.H.O. to concede that the coronavirus can be carried by tiny droplets called aerosols, which can linger indoors for hours.
Assuming of course in the planning for such an event they knew that Omicron was coming ....Michael Pascoe: What if Omicron bedlam is not a cockup but intentional?
Pretend for a moment you are in charge and decide you will let the virus rip, as you’ve been urging for much of the past year. When would you do it?thenewdaily.com.au
Surely not....?
The Hibberd study got no traction because it failed the peer review process for mainstream medical journals.Any study could succeed or fail at these steps, regardless of the qualifications of those involved.
A large proportion of Americans still believe Trump won the election and that Obama is a Muslim, despite zero evidence to either.So assuming he is not mad, what is his alternative agenda at risking ruining his career? (That is a genuine question/thought)
Rapid antigen testing has finally been introduced among the South Australian public, as health authorities work to combat an eruption of COVID-19 cases and community transmission of the virus.
Last night, the state's police commissioner lifted a ban on the tests after SA on Thursday recorded 484 new infections.
That daily record was again surpassed on Friday, with 688 new cases reported by Premier Steven Marshall.
Huge demand for the self-administered spot tests is expected, with supermarkets and pharmacies now starting to stock them.
"They'll be made available over the next week. In terms of supply, people might have to be patient," Acting Health MInister Rob Lucas said.
The tests are not intended to replace the more accurate PCR testing, and are recommended for people who do not have COVID-19 symptoms.
The fact that other states have made it legal before SA, and thus allowed them to order up big time has no bearing on the shortage.South Australia's Premier will ask the consumer watchdog to investigate reports that the Victorian and New South Wales governments have requisitioned rapid antigen tests bound for the state.
SA pharmacies and other businesses have reported making large rapid antigen test (RAT) orders that have subsequently gone missing.
SA Premier Steven Marshall said while interstate governments denied they had "jumped the queue", he believed there should be an independent investigation into the reports.
"South Australians have every right to be outraged if these allegations are correct," Mr Marshall told radio station FiveAA this morning.
"Any interference in the supply of rapid antigen tests to South Australia is completely and utterly unacceptable."
But no matter what barriers the states have in place, its still all the feds fault.West Australians hoping to buy rapid antigen tests (RATs) from their local pharmacies have been warned they will not be able to, due to a lack of supply.
Last week, Western Australia's Chief Health Officer, Andy Robertson, told reporters that rapid antigen tests would become legal from today, after the state government removed the ban it earlier imposed on them over accuracy concerns.
However, the Australian Pharmacy Guild's WA branch president Andrew Ngeow said pharmacies in the state had not secured any stock.
"At the moment, because of the ban, we haven't been able to get any into WA thus far," he said.
The buteside study is interesting and inhalant antivirals do make sense.The Hibberd study got no traction because it failed the peer review process for mainstream medical journals.
Hibberd's associates' website promotes Ivermectin and is not keen on vaccinations, despite no conclusive evidence for the former and incontrovertible evidence for the latter.
This article links to further RCTs for Ivermectin that should yield definitive results.
Here is a proven at home treatment for early covid which is cheap and effective, yet not promoted by the so called World Council for Health.
I am strongly in favour of people doing as much as they think can help them to combat covid, but advocating using a drug without prescription is not a recipe for success.
Here is a proven at home treatment for early covid which is cheap and effective, yet not promoted by the so called World Council for Health.
The medical science process is somewhat different to testing an hypothesis as RCTs are the gold standard for an intervention or treatment.That is why I put more faith in the further steps of falsification and repetition, rather whether they pass peer review or not.
You mean Donald is no longer President?! Damn!A large proportion of Americans still believe Trump won the election and that Obama is a Muslim, despite zero evidence to either.
In the inimitable words of P T Barnum, "there's a sucker born every minute".
I said this a few weeks back. Best time is now. Everywhere is struggling to contain omicron. Even China is having a hard time containing it.Michael Pascoe: What if Omicron bedlam is not a cockup but intentional?
Pretend for a moment you are in charge and decide you will let the virus rip, as you’ve been urging for much of the past year. When would you do it?thenewdaily.com.au
Surely not....?
Hope she goes alright. That headache is a killer. Paracetamol is a massive relief.My Sister (front line health worker) just diagnosed with the big-C.
On leave from a couple of days ago. Great way to spend your holiday for her!
Double vaxxed of course as health workers are expected to be
Still in the early nasty headache phase.
She is high 60's age group so not ideal. She is also a tough little nugget so hopefully fare ok
I spent an hour with her 2 days ago before she came down with it. See how the quercetin/zinc/D3/C goes, lol
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