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COVID-19

Michael Pascoe: COVID political ground shifts – is an election moving it?

There’s a push in the LNP to STOP talking about the numbers

There’s a push within the Liberal Party, both federal and state, to open up New South Wales when it is 56 per cent fully vaccinated. More than half of NSW’s intensive care unit beds are already occupied. Florida has a fully-vaccinated rate of 51 per cent. Its ICU beds are 90 per cent full and filling fast. And Florida has roughly one ICU bed per 3500 people. NSW has one per 9500. This is why we can’t have nice things.

Source: Michael Pascoe: COVID political ground shifts – is an election moving it?

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Intensive care nurse’s blunt warning over coronavirus risk to younger adults – ABC News

A women wearing a blue surgical mask and dark blue scrubs.

Key points:

From the start of July, a quarter of COVID-19 infections have been in Victorians aged in their 20s
Four children are in hospital and 20 per cent of the state’s coronavirus patients are under the age of 50
A senior ICU nurse manager says there is no doubt that that younger adults with coronavirus will die

Intensive care nurse’s blunt warning over coronavirus risk to younger adults – ABC News