‘Extraordinary’ vax effort drives down threat to healthcare system

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‘The health system will cope’: How people in the state of Victoria getting vaccinated 'faster than almost any other country in the world' have helped bring forward the relaxing of some restrictions to Thursday covid health melbournelockdown

Victoria’s sharply rising vaccination rate, plus key modelling assumptions turning out to be pessimistic, have combined to slash predictions of a huge surge in demand for hospital beds – dramatically cutting the risk of overwhelming the healthcare system., predicted huge caseloads and an overwhelmed healthcare system as Victoria reopened.

“With the very high vaccination coverage, our health system – which will continue to have significant challenges – it will cope,” said Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton. “It’s really been an extraordinary story. We’ve gone from 0 to 35 per cent coverage in 150 days. The 35 per cent to 70 per cent is going to happen much, much faster than that,” said Professor Sutton. Victoria was now vaccinating “faster than almost any other country in the world”, he said., Victoria is only a couple of weeks behind the state on vaccination rates, Mr Andrews said.

 

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Learning from CCP, of course it will work fast.

Very proud Victorian💕

Loss of jobs will do that.

Threats & coercion will do that

Extraordinary removal of civil liberties.

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