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'Health experts say state and federal authorities are pursuing the wrong
strategies as Victoria's COVID hospital admissions have soared almost 80 per
cent over the past three weeks.
Victoria on Tuesday recorded 10,627 new cases of the virus, and 16 new deaths.
The number of patients being treated for COVID in the state's hospitals rose
from 402 in mid-June to 737 on Tuesday.
"To put a scale on that, Alfred Hospital has about 560 beds so this is more
than one whole hospital full of patients with the one condition of COVID,"
Melbourne University's School of Health Science's Bruce Thompson said.
"We'd assume that they'll increase for another few weeks."
Professor Thompson said the increase in patient numbers was mostly due to the
highly infectious BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron sub-variants arriving at the same time
people returned to the office and mask mandates were dropped.
The Australian Medical Association (AMA)'s vice-president Chris Moy said the
situation posed a major threat to the hospital system and the community.
"I have not heard health authorities so worried for quite a period of time
behind the scenes," Dr Moy told ABC News Breakfast.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
