What are your predictions for NSW given the current numbers? Assuming that Hazzard’s 25 000 cases a day estimate is correct, that 2 per cent are hospitalised and and average stay of 10 days, that’s 5000 people in hospital on any given day. NSW has 20700 hospital beds, so almost 2...
You told me I had no business questioning what infectious disease experts were telling us to do. (I’m paraphrasing here. What you actually said was: “How about staying in your lane and shutting the eff up?”) I got my vindication from Dr. Stefanos Kales, another from Harvard Medical S...
I was invited to speak today as part of the Future Schools webinar series. In particular, I was asked to engage with the notion of flipping the education system, based in my work in co-editing the 2019 bookFlip the System Australia: What Matters in Education. That was then Even though t...
“I don’t think it’s going to go much higher in terms of increasing daily numbers, but we also know that when holiday periods come along and there’s a lot more mingling and a lot more social activities, we do see an increase in transmission and therefore that flows on to some i...
“Our vaccination numbers are well down … There are new vaccines that are out now that will [reduce] hospitalisation and severe infections for those most at risk.” “We need to ensure that [messaging] is consistent, and it’s done with appropriate language. ...
“The political disruption in NSW and uncertainty creates another layer of uncertainty, but I would not want anyone to get the impression we are walking away from anything we’ve committed to at the moment,” Mr Barr said, although he would “prefer case numbers in the teens,...
the Washington Post released satellite images of mass graves for Coronavirus casualties in Qom, the main hub of the outbreak in Iran [34]. At the same time, WHO confirmed that the actual figures on the COVID-19 spread out of Iran must be five times higher than the official numbers made ...
The increasing case numbers and resultant lockdowns across NSW local government areas have seen Aboriginal communities having limited access to health care and basic necessities due to limitations in the supply of regional and remote supermarkets. A number of First Nations people have rallied together...
COVID-19 and motor vehicle crashes (MVC) are both considered epidemics by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), yet their progression, treatment and success in treatment have been very different. In this pape
Some specific numbers include: Deploying 100 million+ masks Adding 2,298 handwashing stations Adding 5,765+ janitorial staffers to our typical teams Deploying an additional 34 million gloves Adding 48 million ounces of hand sanitizer Adding 93 million sanitizing spray bottles and wipes Deploying more...