evlPanda said..
NSW
There are 362 COVID-19 cases in hospital with 58 people in intensive care, 24 of whom require ventilation.
Of the 58 cases in intensive care, five were in their 20s, seven in their 30s, four in their 40s, 17 in their 50s, seven in their 60s, 15 in the 70s and three in their 80s.
Fifty-four of those in the ICU were not vaccinated, three had received their first dose of AstraZeneca and one had received their first dose of Pfizer vaccine.
I feel a bit sorry for people in NSW at the moment. They are faced with a lockdown that just keeps going and their access to vaccinations is pretty ordinary.
They seem to be faced with a choice of going with Astrazenica and the risks it has, or trying to book an appointment for Pfizer on the woeful websites that NSW Health has. Its terrible. No simple system where you can just register and say 'I want a vaccination anywhere near me ASAP', but instead you have to try and find yourself two appointments at the one vaccination centre that align within date ranges to suit the recommended second dose.
Who designed this piece of crap system? Clearly no one thought this through well enough.
I am not sure what is worse, the federal government that didn't order enough vaccines to cover the population should one not be viable, or the people that have built the booking system and made it incredibly difficult and inefficient.
I would find it incredibly insulting if I wanted to get vaccinated and these systems made it almost impossible to do so. What is the use of having people that want to get vaccinated and no easy way for them to do it.
Its no wonder that they have opened up AZ to walk-in clinics as their booking approach is inexcusable for something that is meant to facilitate vaccination.