Call for increased health restrictions as COVID-19 winter wave worsens

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Medical experts have called on policy-makers to ramp up their COVID-19 response as the winter omicron wave continues to put Australia's health system under strain. 9News

response as the winter omicron wave continues to put Australia's health system under strain.

The country's two largest states are dealing with their highest level of hospitalisations since February, but Victoria's Australian Medical Association President, Dr Roderick McRae, said the situation is about to get much worse."It's a massive problem."He called on increased health restrictions to be implemented immediately to help healthcare workers battle spiking case numbers.

"Yet again I call on the Victorian Minister for Health to review the decision about the limited range of mask mandates in circumstances where we know there is massive transmission of a highly transmissible virus," McRae said. "The health care workers are holding the hose like bush firefighters and a lot of other policy decisions are pouring kerosene on the fire on the other side.recorded 9630 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, with 760 people receiving care in hospital.has recorded 10,198 cases of COVID-19 in the last 24-hour reporting period.

The state currently has more than 2000 people undergoing treatment in hospital, with 63 people in intensive care.Rising cases across the country led to the federal government on Saturday

 

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If the country has a 95% vaccinated population and we are experiencing a 3/4/5th wave. When is anyone (aside from the occasional opinion piece parroted throughout various media outlets) going to question the efficacy of the vax, the ongoing rinse and repeat strategy and failure?

Agree. So when are they going to start locking down all the jabbed superspreaders?

beamailuc

beamailuc Medical experts have called on policy makers? No they haven’t, it’s you the media and global government

The “experts” 👇🏻

Went to a hospital recently Used masks all over the floor and outside hospital. But yeah its a crazy deadly virus that we should all be concerned about lol

beamailuc Why aren’t they calling for more funding/staff beds... we’ve spent billions on testing, masks, PPE, vaccines that haven’t taken the pressure off the healthcare system.

I will not comply

Every single medical expert? Maybe the word 'some' would be useful here.

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