Ginger Beer
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NSW has basically opened up the metro area, we will see how that effects the hospital system in a couple of weeks when the 15% of 15 years and older unvaccinated start coping with Covid, that's nearly 4 million unvaccinated people
And thats not counting all the kids under 15 years of age
The 22 million eligible that are either fully or partially vaccinated hopefully will be fine and not add to the flood of cases admited to the critical care wards
But still, that's 4 million people who need to hope they are not in the % of people who will be requiring critical care
Again, not counting under 15 yesrs of age
I believe this is what some people either don't understand or don't care about, bed spaces in critical care wards, I think NSW has about 1000 critical care beds, as for the trained nursing staff?????
Currently there's around 20% of those beds with Covid patients, so we have 800 "spare beds", currently
But, if even at 0.025% (10,000 people) of those 4 million need critical care, we will be 9,000 critical care beds short
Heart attacks, MVA, and all the other ailments that need critical care will also be vying for those bed spaces as well
Like the link supplied above, Singapore went from a few cases a day during lockdown to 3, 000 a day in just over 2 weeks after opening up at ?80%? I believe
Singapore has about the same population as NSW, both are metro areas
Singapore are now triaging in tents
Interesting times ahead I would imagine
Disclaimer: I hope I'm wrong
And thats not counting all the kids under 15 years of age
The 22 million eligible that are either fully or partially vaccinated hopefully will be fine and not add to the flood of cases admited to the critical care wards
But still, that's 4 million people who need to hope they are not in the % of people who will be requiring critical care
Again, not counting under 15 yesrs of age
I believe this is what some people either don't understand or don't care about, bed spaces in critical care wards, I think NSW has about 1000 critical care beds, as for the trained nursing staff?????
Currently there's around 20% of those beds with Covid patients, so we have 800 "spare beds", currently
But, if even at 0.025% (10,000 people) of those 4 million need critical care, we will be 9,000 critical care beds short
Heart attacks, MVA, and all the other ailments that need critical care will also be vying for those bed spaces as well
Like the link supplied above, Singapore went from a few cases a day during lockdown to 3, 000 a day in just over 2 weeks after opening up at ?80%? I believe
Singapore has about the same population as NSW, both are metro areas
Singapore are now triaging in tents
Interesting times ahead I would imagine
Disclaimer: I hope I'm wrong