The Premier’s gambit: NSW looks to vaccine escape hatch

It’s been the story of this pandemic so many times before: the sun breaks through, then the clouds roll in again.

And the victims are not just the elderly. On Friday 58 per cent of new cases reported on Friday were under 30. Intensive care units are seeing patients in their teens, 20s and 30s. Earlier in the week, a 27-year old man died from the disease while isolating in his south-west Sydney home, the state’s youngest COVID-related death to date.

The NSW government has been responsible for delivering the balance, around 1.6 million doses, through outlets which include three mass vaccination hubs at Sydney Olympic Park, Lake Macquarie, and Macquarie Fields in Sydney’s south-west, with two more mass hubs due to open at Wollongong and the Qudos Bank Arena on Monday. To bolster the vaccine workforce, appropriately trained student dentists, podiatrists and speech pathologists among others are being brought in.

He’s also welcomed federal help in getting vaccine programs into south-west Sydney’s major distribution hubs for suppliers such as Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and Metcash. GPs are doing a substantial proportion of the heavy lifting, with 1800 of the state’s almost 3000 general practices participating in the program. Many small practices however are turned off by the costs and staffing demands of the consent process, reporting requirements and a delivery protocol which requires the observation of patients for 15 minutes after each jab is administered.

“If pharmacies were brought on in April we could have done tens of thousands of doses by now,” says Plunkett, who has given out 4000 flu vaccines this year. ”Every barrier has been put in front of us.“ “During the day we started noticing everyone was hanging around listening to us, as we counselled people over the consent form and explained the risks and benefits of AstraZeneca. We managed to debunk a lot of the misinformation because many don’t speak much English,” Quinn says.He rapidly exhausted his government-allotted quota of 300 vaccine doses for the fortnight and had to borrow extra from a local GP and another pharmacy.

DeborahSnow lucy_carroll She is soooo weak. Rather than shut all down this is piece meal which is an election stunt

DeborahSnow lucy_carroll Reads like a press release. People will continue to die because she gave up.

DeborahSnow lucy_carroll However, people don’t trust AZ and we don’t have enough Pfizer. So the vaccination rates will climb in a slow pace that keeps us in trouble at least to Xmas.

DeborahSnow lucy_carroll How about a real lockdown? Both my neighbours, their kids go out day and night and I’m pretty sure it’s not for essential travel. Get serious FFS Gladys or this will fester until Christmas.

DeborahSnow lucy_carroll Which 'sad face' will she wear today?

DeborahSnow lucy_carroll So will Gladys Berejiklian “do nothing” again today? No changes to approach. No new ideas Just stand there for 45 minutes and yell “vaccination, vaccination, vaccination “ at us Meanwhile more suffer & more die covid19nsw covidnsw GladysFail

DeborahSnow lucy_carroll This is what happens when you wait and let it run Wild

DeborahSnow lucy_carroll time to do a real control regime after 6 weeks ........try it

DeborahSnow lucy_carroll 'In the Hunter and Newcastle, now under tight lockdown for a week [and deprived of access to vaccines], there are also low rates of vaccination. In the Hunter only 14 per cent are fully vaccinated.'

DeborahSnow lucy_carroll Remember: 'the victims are not just the elderly. On Friday 58 per cent of new cases reported on Friday were under 30. Intensive care units are seeing patients in their teens, 20s and 30s.'

DeborahSnow lucy_carroll Let it Rip Gladys should resign immediately NSW needs Leadership Urgently

DeborahSnow lucy_carroll Terrible 😢 that it’s got so bad:-(

DeborahSnow lucy_carroll NSW Lockdown started because of the NSW Gov allowing unvaccinated unmasked airport limo driver to work

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