Want
to know why in New South Wales chaos is the 'new normal'?
COVID-19
published data finally confirmed a truth - by week ending 9 January
2022 only 78.3% of total NSW population was fully vaccinated. Note:
it’s possible that government was using June 2019 or 2020
population totals which would result in a lower fully vaccinated percentage total.
What
this means is when Dominic Perrottet became premier in early October 2021 the real
vaccination rate of the total state population (ABS pop. 30 June 2021) was under 55% & by 25 November 2021 it was still not the loudly boasted about 80% total. Even with est. 42% of the
population aged 12 to 90 years of age & over being fully vaccinated. And he knew those vaccination rates were misleading as he had been a member of NSW crisis cabinet since its creation.
Yet
knowing all this Perrottet still kept Morrison & Berejiklian’s insane 'living with COVID’ push alive by further reducing public health
protections in the face of a new Omicron Variant Outbreak combining with
an existing Delta Variant Outbreak.
The NSW Premier and MLA for Epping intentionally opened up
vulnerable villages, towns & cities in 128 local government areas
and communities them to fend for themselves.
The
rest is history. Because ‘opening up’ the state with a real full
vaccination rate well under the promised 70-80% (a percentage range much of the expert advice to
government was based on) and, with the bare minimum of a test, trace,
contact & isolate public health structure in place, the combined
Delta-Omicron infection growth began to surge and is on its way to
being an epidemiological tsunami which will toss New South Wales this way
and that for at least the next six weeks, perhaps longer.
This
because, despite the fact that full vaccination of those 12 to 90
years of age & older has now reached est. 86.1%, a significant
number of those vaccinated since 22 February 2021 no longer have a
high level of protection against the virus.
By the week ending 9
January 2022, 68.9% of all COVID-19 cases hospitalized across the
state were patients who had been fully vaccinated sometime in the last
22 months and, as of 15 January only 25.4% of all fully vaccinated
NSW residents have received a vaccine booster injection to increase
waning immunity levels.
Even reinstating a weak mishmash of previous public health restrictions is not going to change what is happening now that the virus has reached the status of uncontrolled.
The exact number of daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual COVID-19 cases which have occurred in the New South Wales resident population can no longer be reliably quantified. The 'let it rip' mentality of the Australian and NSW Coalition Governments had overseen the disintegration of a public health response to SARS-CoV-2 the virus and COVID-19 the infectious disease it caused. A situation which was laid bare by December 2021 when it became impossible to test or count every person in the state who was displaying/fallen ill with COVID-19 symptoms.
There
were at total of 23,456 new confirmed
COVID-19 cases reported by NSW Health to 8pm Saturday 15
January 2022, with the deaths of 20 people of whom 14 people were
vaccinated against COVID-19 and six people were not vaccinated.
NOTE:
The aforementioned total new cases includes both positive PCR and RAT
results, but excludes those 11, 204 positive RAT results included in 15 January figures which actually occurred
in the last 7 days. It seems that the difficulty in sourcing a RAT
has resulted in only est. 2,478 COVID-19 positive home being reported within the last 24 hours to 8pm 15 January.
Currently
there are 2,650 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, including
191 people in intensive care, 61 of whom require ventilation.
As of 8pm 15 January there are 342,838 active COVID-19 cases in the state - less than 1% of these people would currently be in hospital and the remainder are understood to be self-managing their illness outside of a hospital setting either in the home or insecure accommodation.
Currently NSW Health is recording the incidence of COVID-19 diagnostic testing in the last four weeks up to 15 January as 125 PCR tests done per 1,000 head of population. Since 26 November 2021 a large proportion of all positive PCR tests have not had
genomic sequencing.
According
to NSW Health of the 20,978 new cases confirmed by PCR testing as at
8pm on Saturday 15 January 2022: 4,063 are from South Western
Sydney Local Health District (LHD), 3,139 are from Western Sydney
LHD, 2,336 are from South Eastern Sydney LHD, 1,875 are from Northern
Sydney LHD, 1,858 are from Sydney LHD, 1,755 are from Hunter New
England LHD, 1,458 are from Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD, 989 are from
Nepean Blue Mountains LHD, 686
are from Northern NSW LHD, 610 are from Central
Coast LHD, 571 are from Murrumbidgee LHD, 489 are from Southern NSW
LHD, 439 are from Western NSW LHD, 257 are from Mid North Coast LHD,
67 are from Far West LHD, 2 are in
correctional settings, and 384 are yet to be assigned to an LHD.
To
8pm 15 January, 686 COVID-19 cases confirmed by PCR testing
were recorded across 7 local government areas in
Northern NSW Local Health District:
Tweed
Shire
– 353
cases
Byron
Shire
– 126 cases
Ballina
Shire
– 84 cases
Lismore
City
– 49
cases
Clarence
Valley
– 33
cases
Richmond
Valley
– 28
cases
Kyogle
Shire – 13 cases
TOTAL 686
NOTE:
NSW
Location database is only updated 5 days out of every seven so
postcodes for
15 January not
yet available at
time of posting.
Currently
there are 52 COVID-19 positive patients in hospital in Northern
NSW, with 8 of these in ICU.
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| IMAGE: found on Twitter |
The Weekend Australian reported on 16 January 2022:
“It
is as we feared,” Dr Chris Ingall, from the hospital’s medical
staff council, told the publication.
“We
are seeing an almost exclusively unvaccinated population in the
hospital and exclusively unvaccinated in the intensive care ward at
this point.
“We
predicted this, we said there would be a tsunami here, everyone
predicted it would sweep through the pockets of the unvaccinated.”…..
One
of the people in ICU is Mullimbimby-based tarot card reader and reiki
master Helen Dean who had previously protested against vaccine
mandates.
She
caught the virus last month and has been on a ventilator since
Christmas Day…...
The
Daily Telegraph reported she was taken off life support on Saturday
but remains in ICU…..
Meanwhile,
NSW Health data has revealed the impact anti-vaxxers are causing on
the health system.
Of
NSW’s Covid deaths, 420 were unvaccinated while just 96 had the
jab.
The
Daily Telegraph also estimated the cost of ICU per patient per day is
about $4375.
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