That raises so many questions. Qld has 296 current hospitlisations out of 46,731 active cases (All of Qld government website). I expect many more in community given testing issues and the fact a lot of people show no systems. That is .6 of 1% hospitalised and we have 12 in ICU or .02 of a %.
If this is what it takes top break the health system we had issues earlier. We all know about ambulance ramping which has been an issue for many years and we have well over 12,000 public beds as well as private beds estimated at around 8,000 beds. The questions I would ask if I were a half decent reporter would be
- Why didn't they increase beds if they thought Covid was an issue?
- Why are the beds full? Have adverse reactions from the jab used up hospita beds
- If we assume (Probably incorrect) that they are only using public beds for covid patients this is at most 2.46% of capacity. Why is this over burdening the system
- Is sacking the doctors and nurses that wouldn't take the jab having an impact?
- How many hospital staff are out of the system due to 1. having covid, and 2. isolating as close contacts
- How many staff are resigning due to the rules around Covid?
The news articles do not reflect the facts. What is the problem?