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2 years

I’m confused @ScottMorrisonMP Omicron spreads more easily than any other variant. It doesn’t care if you are a family member, a coworker, a drinker in the pub or breathing the same air in a lift. Isolating close contacts slows spread. Isolating less people means faster spread.

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So @ScottMorrisonMP says states have had time to prepare hospitals for COVID- and maybe he’s right- but they haven’t got the money, staff or capacity to deal with surging non-COVID demand. PM, we need you to help solve this national crisis, not blame hospitals or their staff.

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So elective surgery now ceased along east coast… thousands of HCWs not at work… more in hospital with #COVID than ever before and peak Omicron is weeks away? This is our health system ‘coping’.

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THERE'S NO AMBULANCE BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL PARKED OUTSIDE EMERGENCY WITH PATIENTS IN THE BACK BECAUSE THE PLACE IS IN LOGJAM AND PEOPLE CAN'T GO TO THE WARDS BECAUSE ALL THE STAFF HAVE COVID AND THERE ARE NO PLACES IN THE COMMUNITY TO DISCHARGE TO... AND NOBODY SAW THIS COMING...

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I speak as an obstetrician/gynaecologist who has been involved in the care of many victims of sexual assault. Why in God's name would any woman now come forward to report these crimes after seeing the current media horror?

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Stopping surgery and other care was necessary in 2020 in a crisis. But there is no excuse for lazy planning now. If we can’t open up without decimating ordinary health care maybe we need more than 80% of our population vaccinated?

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A call to #natcab : Changing the definition of ‘hospitalisation’ will not make you look more in control of this outbreak- just more out of touch with the chaos in healthcare due to Omicron. We need a new strategy to protect the vulnerable & essential services including healthcare

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Every single case in which a person with Covid-19 infection infects another person in a health care setting - patient, relative, or hospital staff member - is a significant failure of hospital procedures. Every single instance.

Peter Vogel

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4 months

I have obtained information about hospital-acquired COVID-19 from Queensland Health. From Jan-22 to June-23 an average of 14 people caught C19 in hospital each day, and one of these died each day. The data only lists deaths in the hospital, we don't know how many died soon after…

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There’s been an air of invincibility among people who have had COVID... especially among people who are vaccinated. Without ambiguity, our research shows that getting a repeat infection contributes to additional health risks in the acute phase..."

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Overview

COVID-19 is a new type of coronavirus that causes mild to severe cases. Here’s a quick guide on how to spot symptoms, risk factors, prevent spread of the disease, and find out what to do if you think...

www.webmd.com

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Health care facilities have an absolute obligation to protect staff, patients, and visitors from avoidable harm. Whether it's COVID infection, injury, violence, bullying - the lot. If you’re not protecting them, you're part of the problem. Now isn't the time to just give up.

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Happy New Year to all, but especially our Healthcare Workers who have given so much over the last two years… we need you to dig deep and keep giving in 2022. Whether you work in a vaccination clinic, a testing centre, an aged care facility, a hospital or a GP practice… thanks!

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Redefining close contacts will simply accelerate the outbreak. I don’t think you could call the NSW experiment a success yet. Let’s not give up on slowing the spread. Vacc, testing and public health measures have worked so far and remain the best option for living with COVID.

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The more we learn more about 'long COVID' the more concerning the situation seems to be. Nobody can see the future with such a newly-recognized virus, but it looks like we need to prepare for a major impact.💣💥 #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver

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😂😂😂😂😂😂

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@Adam_Creighton

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Just cancelled a Dr's appointment because of mask requirement, almost 950 days into the pandemic, after everyone vaxed, multiple times. Too humiliating. Can't be intelligent Dr if actually believe the propaganda.

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Even IF Omicron turns out to be mild in vaccinated people, an explosion of cases will have a devastating effect on healthcare- GPs looking after community cases, furloughing of exposed workers and of course the unknown proportion who will need to be treated in hospital.

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If closing private and public hospitals for surgery and other care is our plan for living with #covid then I suggest to @GregHuntMP and national cabinet that they need to go back to the drawing board. A planned reopening needs a modeled funded and realistic plan for healthcare.

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Welcome to 2023... #CovidIsNotOver #COVID19

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I work at this hospital. I never stopped wearing an N95 mask when there. In its 4th year COVID continues to take lives at a terrible rate, cause ongoing harm, and disrupt health services. #CovidIsNotOver

UPDATE: COVID restrictions back in place in CHS facilities as alert level raised to amber | Riotact

UPDATE 1:33 pm: Canberra Health Services CEO Dave Peffer has announced that it has raised its COVID escalation framework from…

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...and to all the NHS doctors coming to Australia, we'll do our best to make you feel welcome and help navigate the fairly minor transition to the Australian health system🇭🇲 @TheBMA @BMA_JuniorDocs @campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

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@Conservatives 3️⃣ Today’s offer is final. There will be no more talks on pay. This country will not be bullied into higher taxes or higher borrowing to fund unrealistic pay demands, risking higher inflation.

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Political thinking about COVID

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Surely we should be improving PCR availability, rethinking the duration of isolation and using RAT tests to allow exposed people to rejoin the workforce earlier and safely?

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COVID cases in hospital in Australia throughout the pandemic. If this is ‘stable’ I’d hate to see exponential…. The previous curves were turned by lockdowns. Not hard to predict the future. ⁦ @ScottMorrisonMP ⁩ ⁦ @Dom_Perrottet ⁩

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@amapresident

10 months

Looking forward to working with many ex-NHS colleagues next year!

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

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@Conservatives 3️⃣ Today’s offer is final. There will be no more talks on pay. This country will not be bullied into higher taxes or higher borrowing to fund unrealistic pay demands, risking higher inflation.

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Localised and light lockdown measures failing to stop the #Delta spread in NSW…. Blaming public not likely to change behaviour- but clear messages might. Delta doesn’t spread by magic- public health measures work and must be strengthened to protect regions and hospitals.

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10% of children whose mothers had COVID during pregnancy had an abnormality on ultrasound of the head. 10% #CovidIsNotOver #Covid_19 #childhealth

Roland Baker

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Developmental impairment in children exposed during pregnancy to maternal SARS-COV2: A Brazilian cohort study: Most at risk Fine motor and personal-social & 10% of exposed had abnormal cranial sonography

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Learnings from the SA election for Labor and the Coalition federally: SA voters have ousted a good government with a solid track record where one of the main differences between the parties was future health policy. Ignore health at your peril. #auspol

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Wow - I totally understand now why we're about to see a stampede of British NHS doctors to Australia... @RishiSunak @SteveBarclay @TheBMA #NHS

Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge

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"If you asked the average person on the street if they would be happy to pay a doctor £19-an-hour I think you get a resounding yes" @RobLaurensonD4P told Sophy that Steve Barclay was "pinching pennies" in the dispute over the 35% pay rise demand #Ridge

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This is a breathtakingly irresponsible statement. Unemployment is associated with a range of adverse health outcomes including suicide. I say this with some confidence having studied suicide and unemployment. @FinancialReview @RANZCP

Wealthy developer Tim Gurner says a big jump in unemployment needed to boost productivity

Rich Lister Tim Gurner suggested a 50 per cent rise in the unemployment rate would reverse tradie productivity losses suffered since the pandemic.

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When you consider how to cast your vote in the referendum - and if health is important in your decision-making - then across the health sector all of our organisations recognise that a Voice to Parliament is likely to help close the gap. I hope that helps you decide.

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COVID-19 the *third leading cause of death* in Australia last year. What an extraordinary situation. #CovidIsntOver #COVID19

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The Whitlam reforms were the only reason I was able to get a university education. My family could not have afforded my medical degree otherwise. I am so grateful for the opportunity I was given.

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Tomorrow, the 2nd of December, it will be 50 years since Gough Whitlam and Labor won that historic 1972 federal election that ended 23 years of coalition government and laid the foundations for modern Australia.

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@nick_coatsworth Actually it doesn’t, Nick. The furloughing rules and the reality that many HCWs have unvaccinated children mean that an explosion of cases WILL impact health care even without hospitalisations. Each case is told to call their GP if needed… that’s a lot of calls for tired GPs.

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Masks and social distancing measures to slow the spread urgently needed in NSW. Living with COVID doesn’t mean letting it rip. Caution now so much better than regrets later…. The pandemic is far from over - just look at the rest of the world @Dom_Perrottet

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Message to Sydney protesters: We know this is hard. Really hard. But if you hit the streets tomorrow, you’ll just be part of the problem. If you want to get out of lockdown, be part of the solution: Stay home. Get vaccinated now. Wear a mask. Sydney can beat Delta.

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And PLEASE let’s learn the lessons of the past: good health outcomes mean good economic outcomes. Protect health as a priority. That includes proper investment in public hospitals so they have the CAPACITY to deal with surges in demand without cancelling other people’s care.

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Here's a prediction I'm going to put money behind. If the major public hospitals on the east coast aren't overwhelmed with patients and facing staff shortages over the holiday break - I'll donate $1000 to charity. 🤦‍♂️

'Plenty of protections in place' as 800 COVID-19 infected passengers disembark cruise ship

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"This isn’t an office job. They’re not photocopying the wrong document - they’re killing people." Utterly staggering goings-on in the UK. 🤯 I struggle to understand why patients aren't up in arms about this. What are they being told? @TheBMA #NHSCrisis

MPs push forward with plan to fill our NHS with fake doctors, sorry ‘physician associates’. Are...

When was the last time politicians made life easier for doctors?

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So we’re less than two weeks out from Election Day and @ScottMorrisonMP says hospitals are a state problem whilst @AlboMP will talk with Premiers if elected. No fix for amb. ramping or elective surgery delays from either side. Perhaps they haven’t noticed the avoidable deaths?

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Weekend on-call. Masked up to protect all the mums and babies we're caring for over this long weekend. #CovidIsNotOver

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And if governments won’t act- people can! Wear a mask when out and about, avoid mass gatherings and get your booster as soon as you can access one. Get tested if exposed or symptomatic. The lessons of the last two years haven’t changed just because we’re living with COVID…

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COVID patients will receive care but in NSW and Vic people will die from deferred medical care as hospitals/Drs focus on COVID - and the same will occur everywhere without action. The stakes are high- we need national leadership to face the challenges ahead.

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"A new COVID strain started to create waves among virus trackers, outpacing nearly all other variants of interest scientists are tracking..." #CovidIsntOver

Just in time for fall, there's a brand-new COVID variant making headway in the U.S.

Scientists are taking notice of BF.7 because it’s making headway in an increasingly crowded field of Omicron subvariants.

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3 years

Last chance to eradicate Delta from Sydney? Simple rules that apply to everyone have a much better chance of working than focused complex rules. Only truly essential retail; 5km for all; masks for all, everywhere.

No time to lose to curb Delta's spread in Sydney

The AMA said today time is running out to get control of the COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney, calling for stricter, wider lockdown measures alongside a massive vaccination push. AMA President Dr Omar...

www.ama.com.au

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Sydney facing its greatest challenge over next two weeks. Win: return to ‘normal’ life. Lose: 6 months of heavy restrictions, chaos and closed borders with illness for many, death for some. Can only win if EVERYONE on board.

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"A physician associate in neurosurgery told the Physician Associate Podcast that he had “zero training in neurosurgery or neurology” during his course...‌he now “scrubs in and operates on things like subdural haematomas” Truly unbelievable🤯🤯🤯 @TheBMA

Safety fears as non-medical staff learn neurosurgery ‘on the job’

Physician associates (PAs) without medical training are learning “neurosurgery on the job” as royal medical colleges call “extraordinary” meetings over the use of the unregulated profession.

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@ollieburtonmed Ollie, I really don't know anything about Mr Hunt, but it strikes me that the UK health care workforce has absolutely given its all during the pandemic - now saying doctors and nurses are the 'enemy' to be 'defeated' must feel like a monumental slap in the face...

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Threads of evidence coming together that suggest 'long COVID' could be associated with development of cancers. Something to think about, eh? #COVID19 #Cancer #publichealth

Is SARS-CoV-2 an oncogenic virus?

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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And GPs and private doctors need help to help the rest of us: restored telehealth access, RATs, PPE/fit testing/realistic guidelines, funding for GPs to help deal with the volume of COVID demand whilst doing booster vacc and 5-11 vacc.

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The system is leaning on individuals (esp HCW) without providing the necessary support. Surely it’s worth a try to flatten the curve (many people doing right thing anyway) to give hospitals a chance and get boosters into arms.

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While here at the AMA we're eagerly awaiting release of the health advice underpinning the National Cabinet decisions this afternoon... @AlboMP @Mark_Butler_MP

john shakespeare

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NSW and VIC team up on health..

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As a doctor, I’ll be downloading the contact tracing app, and I’ll be encouraging my patients, colleagues, family, and friends to do the same #COVIDsafe

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Once in our population, COVID isn’t going anywhere, so the impact on hospitals and health care will be sustained. We need a health system that can still provide normal care to everyone, otherwise we will pay the price in lives lost for years to come.

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What is going on in the UK???🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 #NHSCrisis @TheBMA

Dr Done

@Dr_Done_

4 months

Doctors are fed up. PA in theatre doing the doctor’s job, then bossing the doctor about via a nurse. Despicable. Our roles and achievements have been hijacked, and we need to start claiming them back. ☠️ ☠️ ☠️

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How has the Australian community ended up in a situation where people hold such dangerous and nonsensical views? That people think it's OK to 'protest' in a way that sick children are further harmed. People with influence who encourage this behaviour need to face consequences.

Stephen Parnis

@SParnis

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This afternoon, hundreds of antivax protesters blockaded Flemington Rd & made it difficult & traumatic for sick kids, their families & the staff to get to RCH. I am disgusted beyond words at their ignorance & malice. You are beneath contempt.

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Yep, and health care workers are utterly, totally, overwhelmingly exhausted. Just ask them

Michael Rowland

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"People are tired". "We cannot continue to treat this as an emergency. It just doesn't work. They'll just stop listening." Queensland Chief Health Officer John Gerrard on why he believes COVID public health orders and mandates won't work anymore.

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Omicron is spreading fast in unvaccinated… lots of fear and unknowns while we wait for answers - but there’s still something we can all do to protect against a whole alphabet soup of COVID variants: double dose vacc then a booster at 6 months. More vacc = less restrictions.

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Whilst we all hope that @nick_coatsworth is Nostradamus! Although the case numbers this week suggest he isn’t… That’s it from the 🥜 gallery Nick😜

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Shocking events like this are almost inconceivable in Australia and most other similar countries. In 33 years as a hospital-based surgical specialist I have never seen a gunshot injury, even being managed by some other team.

Shannon Watts

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1 year

This month in the US, people were shot for ringing the wrong doorbell, getting into the wrong car, using a leaf blower, delivering food to the wrong address, driving into the wrong driveway, and for asking a neighbor to stop shooting so a baby could sleep. It’s the fucking guns.

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Good news today of Quarantine facilities in QLD and WA built with State (QLD) and Federal (WA) money. Doesn’t matter who pays- but we desperately need fit for purpose facilities as part of our longer term COVID strategy: to open up but remain safe.

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"An estimated 5% to 10% of children who’ve had COVID go on to develop long COVID..."🤯🤯 We should be doing everything we can to protect our next generation. #COVID19 #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver @TheRACP @_PHAA_

Blood clots, heart problems, kidney failure: COVID creates a higher risk for rare pediatric...

Kids who've had COVID are also more likely to develop type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune condition that destroys the body's ability to make insulin, researchers found.

fortune.com

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The rubbish pouring out of @abc730 @smh and @theage today was staggering in its inaccuracies and its nastiness to the GPs who are barely holding our health together at the moment. No wonder GPs are making for the exits when this filth is poured all over them.

Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

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Demoralising day to be a GP. I bulk-bill every patient I see in Aged Care, every week. Medicare rebates don’t reflect the value of our work. Sure aren’t worth copping misguided scrutiny of bureaucrats & crude accusations in the media. Hard to see myself doing it much longer.

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Just finishing up in theatre after a night on call. We're ready for coffee now - and I'm about to start another busy day. No rorting to report. Just teams of dedicated professionals trying to keep their patients safe in a complex system. Same right across the country. @abc730

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Great opinion piece from Prof Nick Talley: @Prof_NickTalley

Protect yourself from omicron ... because the PM's plan won't

No, we don't all have to catch COVID and it's worth doing whatever you can not to, writes...

www.newcastleherald.com.au

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Any attempt to forcibly remove baby asha #LadyCilento a dangerous act from which there is no return @TurnbullMalcolm #LetThemStay #auspol

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New financial year, new cuts to Medicare from our new government. Inflation 5.1%, wages due to rise, interest rates rising. Medicare indexed at 1.6% and telehealth cut from today. Forgotten the health crisis already @AlboMP ? Recipe for more expensive and less available care.

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"Anything involving concentration, multitasking, and planning—that is, almost everything important—becomes absurdly arduous..." 'Long COVID' has the potential to put a brake on national productivity at a critical time. #COVID19 @Mon4Kooyong @michrajah

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It's 7 am and we're about to kick off a full day of elective surgery. Today is a public holiday in honour of the Queen's passing. Australia's health care workers are giving their all to help the hundreds of thousands waiting for care after all the disruptions. #healthcare

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Ummm... I'm assuming this is satire. Right? 😬 @TheBMA

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Agree that we need schools to open- but with Omicron surging through the community how long will classrooms stay open? Schools need to be made safer and flexibility/hybrid learning needed to navigate an uncertain future.

For the sake of the ‘forgotten voices’ of the pandemic, reopen Australia’s schools

Thirty-five of Australia’s top academics, doctors and community leaders and have written an open letter to Australian governments, calling on them to reaffirm their commitment to open schools.

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The pandemic has stressed Australia's public hospitals to the point that - if trends continue - half a million people will be waiting for elective surgery by mid-2023.🤯🤯 We can't wait for an NHS-type situation to develop here. Time for a national action plan.🏥 @RACSurgeons

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Unbelievable goings-on in the UK.🤯 Astonishing public admission from a politician in the Parliament. I understand the exodus of colleagues to Australia, but what about UK patients?😬 #NHS @TheBMA

Dr Done

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The entire UK public needs to watch this. Your health is a pawn to use against doctors and trade unions.

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Gutted…. Seems WA Premier @MarkMcGowanMP is a one trick pony when it comes to #COVID19 . Hard border with the rest of the country and world remains despite almost 90% vacced. Many of us both shocked/disappointed and relieved at the same time.

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After decades of hard work dealing with tobacco use, in a couple of years we've seen a new generation of young Australians hooked on vapes. This is a monumental failure of public health that we have to sort out urgently. #publichealth #Children

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I hope @SteveBarclay understands that NHS doctors have choices about where they work... @RishiSunak #nhscrisis @TheBMA

Junior Doctors

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This is a total misrepresentation of @BMA_JuniorDocs position👇 Junior Doctors have been trying to enter into serious negotiations for months. Only the Government has set preconditions. We are ready to negotiate when you are, @SteveBarclay

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Excellent work @abc730

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Essential reading from Professors Raina McIntyre ( @Globalbiosec ) and Nancy Baxter ( @enenbee ) #CovidIsNotOver

Cutting COVID isolation and mask mandates will mean more damage to business and health in the long...

With the goal of ‘business as usual’, politicians will continue to reduce COVID protections without immediate consequence while transmission is low. But then the next wave will come.

theconversation.com

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This is more than 10 times the number of Australians who died in vehicle accidents over the same period.

Empirical Steve…just the facts

@AussieSteve6

1 year

13,982 Australians have officially died from covid in the last 365 days. That’s it, that’s the tweet…😢 @AlboMP @Dom_Perrottet @DanielAndrewsMP

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Again - when will the media stop using the phrase 'battle with cancer'? The implication that some people somehow aren't strong enough, or smart enough, or brave enough, or just give up in a 'fight' with cancer is SO wrong and SO distressing to SO many people. #oncology #cancer

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Incredibly powerful

The John Snow Project

@JohnSnowProject

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We face a choice: continue to ignore deaths from COVID-19 or prevent them. In collaboration with @RealOzSAGE , we call on the Australian government to act urgently to reduce transmission of COVID-19 by using the tools we have, instead of abandoning them.

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Victorian Upper House Parliamentarians are ignoring the advice of the Chief Medical Officer and are putting the community at risk. They need to lead by example.

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1 year

"The anti-climate effort has been largely underwritten by conservative billionaires... working through secretive funding networks. They have... worked to block action on climate change.” #ClimateCrisis @healthy_climate

Meet the Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement

Nearly a billion dollars a year is flowing into the organized climate change counter-movement

www.smithsonianmag.com

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2 years

Operations and lots of patient consultations booked that day, at a time when access is difficult. Thanks for dropping this at short notice.🙄

Anthony Albanese

@AlboMP

2 years

On September 22 there will be a public holiday for the National Day of Mourning for Her Majesty The Queen.

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Making the shingles vaccine freely available for so many Australians is a fantastic initiative that will save so much pain, suffering, debility, and productivity/economic loss. 💉👏👏👏 @Mark_Butler_MP @healthgovau @RACGP @ACRRM @TheRACP @_PHAA_

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@amapresident

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When I get my booster next week I'm going to get some photos and post them, just to save a little time if ever I'm before estimates.

Stephanie Dalzell

@steph_dalzell

1 year

Against a backdrop of a system struggling with chronic workforce shortages and overburdened hospitals, Health Estimates was today suspended five times in an hour on the back of questions from Senators like whether health bureaucrats had been vaccinated against COVID-19 #auspol

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Extremely powerful story from @NC_Robinson in @australian today. 16 practitioners have taken their lives while under investigation by @Ahpra .🤯 Good to see recognition of the toll regulatory processes take on people. Let's work together to change things for the better.

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A terrible loss. Deeply saddened by this news.

Mary-Louise McLaws, renowned epidemiologist who helped guide Australia through the pandemic, dies...

Mary-Louise McLaws, who was an epidemiologist at UNSW Sydney for more than 35 years and shared crucial information during the pandemic, has died after a long illness, her family has announced.

www.abc.net.au

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@amapresident

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The right call made by #NSW today. Let’s channel all the anger and disappointment into the things that will make a difference. Get #Vaccinated and follow public health orders. Sydney has won battles with #COVID before and will again. The war can only be won with vaccines.

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Dangerous, potentially harmful misinformation. @ranzcog @NASOG @RACGP @ACRRM @mypsanz

Senator shares baseless claim linking vaccines to stillbirths

An Australian politician has shared a tweet about COVID vaccines and pregnancy, but says he has no idea if it is true.

www.aap.com.au

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1 year

"Women are twice as likely as men to have contracted the condition, and those hospitalised with severe Covid are more likely to develop the condition..."

The data is clear: long Covid is devastating people’s lives and livelihoods | Dr Tedros Adhanom...

The impact of long Covid needs urgent action – and there are five key elements to drive the effort forward, writes the WHO director general

www.theguardian.com

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QLD doctor exposed to #COVID , did all the right things with no breach of PPE protocols and still tests positive. Clearly PPE inadequate. COVID transmission to quarantine and health workers is now COMPLETELY preventable with proper PPE and vaccines. No excuses.

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@amapresident

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#LongCovid is a key issue globally. We're still learning about it but with Australia's workforce now stretched to the limit we need a national plan to deal with it NOW. There's no time for further stuffing around. @Mark_Butler_MP @JEChalmers #COVID19

New data shows long Covid is keeping as many as 4 million people out of work | Brookings

Since the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic through today, news about labor shortages and missing workers has dominated headlines. The question everyone still seems to be asking is: Why? [author-bio]...

www.brookings.edu

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@amapresident

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@nick_coatsworth And waiting until ICU numbers climb will be too late. NSW should have learnt that lesson. Flattening the curve now will have less impact on people than implementing major restrictions after the horse has bolted (look at the Netherlands).

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@amapresident

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With the watering down of COVID protections such as iso and mask- wearing - and an end-of-year wave predicted - then we need to understand how people are being affected more than ever. We need to know that if reports come out weekly that daily analysis is still happening.📈🔬🚩

Michael Rowland

@mjrowland68

2 years

Significant move: Daily COVID case number reporting set to end this Friday. Weekly reports from now on.

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Outstanding work from the British Medical Association. @TheBMA

The BMA

@TheBMA

2 months

For the sake of patient safety, it's vital the role and responsibilities of physician associates are set out clearly. Our new guidance does this, and we encourage employers to adopt it immediately. Watch @DrPhilBanfield set out why this is so vital.

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Slowing the spread would have helped the health system cope- but the die is cast and we will have to do our best. My thoughts: Take Prof Talley’s advice and protect yourself with booster vacc, proper masks, RATs and think about how to manage an infection at home. Prepare ahead

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Well done my friend. Like you, I had a bivalent booster yesterday. Bit of a headache and some muscle aches today, but well worth it!

Stephen Parnis

@SParnis

1 year

I'm eligible for Covid vaccination again, & took a bivalent version after work today. The principles of vaccination haven't changed in 250 years, though the technology behind them certainly have. The unvaccinated are overrepresented in severe Covid. Don't be one of them.

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Healthy people breathe life into the economy - you can't have a healthy economy without healthy people. The Government listened to our message and put health at the heart of #Budget2023 Thanks for listening to what we've been telling you. @JEChalmers @Mark_Butler_MP @AlboMP

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I checked - and it looks like NHS junior doctors earn less now, in real terms, than I did as an NHS visiting registrar in 1997! 🤯🤯🤯🤯 @RobLaurensonD4P @TheBMA #NHSCrisis #JuniorDoctorsStrike

Dr Tony Goldstone

@goldstone_tony

11 months

Bravo @RobLaurensonD4P @BMA_JuniorDocs V good performance on #PoliticsLive well worth👀full 5 min clip calling out the total nonsense that it is government & NOT doctors, who have unilaterally stopped talks RT if you want gvmnt to get round the table & make a *SERIOUS* offer

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