Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@crucial 8 ICU beds to service 193k...1 bed for every 0.004 people?
My guess is 6 of those likely in Whangarei, so 2 beds service 100k outside Greater Whangarei area.
You get to vote for your DHB reps,
It's a demand and supply thing surely? Also you wouldn't have some of the expertise and equipment to deal with some happenings which would likely get transferred to Auckland.
If 8 ICU beds have served things well up until this then that's what you need. Maybe you do need more but if it was working where do you want your $ spent? -
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@crucial you love to defend shit for the sake of it don't you?
Go back to my first post on it and what I said and tell me why what I said was wrong.
The one where you said 'pretty poor'?
I haven't defended anything.
It just seemed an out of place issue to raise as if you were complaining with no context. If that is what has served the area well up to now in the overall system then what is 'pretty poor'. That's all I was asking.
IF it was a problem pre-covid then fair enough, which is why I asked the question. -
@crucial out of place, fuck listen to yourself...Read the post FFS....it is talking about beds, vaccinations, how is it out of place, massively relevant in a region, particularly the far north where Vax rates are lower than national average and beds per head of population probably low too.
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@billy-tell a new article everyday about how the vaccination numbers are leaving Maori behind.
We hear guys like Hone Harawira talking about IWI protecting the borders...like him or not, but he and others like him should be driving the Vax message for Maori in their communities.
Actions and a plan will be better, not a new moan every day.
More talk of static centres not getting the reach in the North, I expect it'd be similar in the East Coast, parts of BOP and the Whanganui/Manawatu areas.
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There are 41 new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today.
40 of the cases were in Auckland. The other one was in Waikato.As at 10am, the Ministry of Health says 20 of these cases were linked, 13 of which were household contacts and 21 remain unlinked.
An Auckland woman associated with the two women who travelled to Northland has tested positive for COVID-19 and is in an Auckland quarantine facility. She was in Northland with the other two women.
Public health officials have determined she wasn’t infectious while she was in Northland between 2-8 October. Her infectious period has been determined as beginning after she returned to Auckland.
People in Wellsford are urged to get tested after two positive detections in wastewater samples. Further samples are currently being analysed. There are testing stations open today at both Wellsford and Warkworth, and a pop-up testing centre is expected to open on Monday in Mangawhai.
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@tim said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
An Auckland woman associated with the two women who travelled to Northland has tested positive for COVID-19 and is in an Auckland quarantine facility. She was in Northland with the other two women.
So 3 women now, first I heard...maybe it was a bus load? Definitely seems more to this story.
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@billy-tell said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
How tiresome is the Maori Party? All I see is whinge after whinge. Why don’t they lead on Covid vaccination rather than just complaining? Insufferable and it’s no wonder they have never really taken the Maori vote away from Labour.
Agree with what you say about the whingeing and complaining, but I think Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi has some pretty good posts on his instagram and he does seem quite active himself to get people vaccinated. This is one of his posts.rawiri_waititi This is my story, this is my truth, this is my why...
Appealing to the many whānau sitting on the fence and unsure. At the end of the day, I will support anyone's decision whatever it is.
We are all mataku. I am. My plea only comes from a place of fear that our people will suffer. I love you all no matter what!
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@stargazer said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
As corny as the event might sound, anything that gets us closer to that 90% is worthwhile thing. Then the ball will be in the court of the government to release the shackles and let us get on with our lives, it can't happen soon enough
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I took my son for his second shot, here in Hamilton. He was booked to go yesterday but his mum was busy so we decided I would take him to one of the events today. We went to the one at Beetham Park near the stadium, it is being run by one of the Pasifika organisations. It was worth going today, we got a pack of Mama's donuts and a spot prize of a $100 prezzy card.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@godder have been protests about too, one up here had about 1500...bet half the people didn't know the group organising it is linked to the Pastor of Muppets
I hope any attempts at plausible deniability fail in court.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@godder have been protests about too, one up here had about 1500...bet half the people didn't know the group organising it is linked to the Pastor of Muppets
Did I read a while back that he was in ill health? If so he is at significant risk if he is telling the truth and is unvaccinated
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Reading some of the comments on FB, it got me thinking.
How often do we hear news stories about some new experimental drug for Breast Cancer or some other serious disease, they want Medsafe/Pharmac to give it approval under urgency as it has shown good results over seas.
Yet here people are claiming Pfizer is still in its early stages with data still coming in, yet with billions of doses worldwide, the data for it is much more comprehensive than some of these other medicines people want approved while still in trial stage....