COVID-19 updates comments and concerns

[DELTAprime]

So SEQ is back in lockdown. I really hope people actually follow the mask rules and stay at home. I don't want the same thing to happen here that's going on in NSW.

[Dkaris]

I booked in for pfizer months ago (under 40 prior health issues) spent 2 hours by train getting to Olympic Park, stood in line, got rained on. Got through to the waiting room. My number was called.. went to the nurse pod to get my jab. Nurse asks where my letter from my GP is. I ask her what she's talking about. Since the stuff ups with astra zucchini you need a document from your gp to get Pfizer. She asked me what my history was. I rattled off my health issues which kind of frustrated me. Only to be told they won't vaccinate me. I tell her it would've been nice to have been told I needed a letter before I wasted my time getting out there. I won't be rushing back, I talked to my GP. Apparently there is more scrutiny around requiring a letter. I do tknow why I'm so surprised how badly the state and federal government's have fucked this rollout.

[G1Optimal]

I booked in for pfizer months ago (under 40 prior health issues) spent 2 hours by train getting to Olympic Park, stood in line, got rained on. Got through to the waiting room. My number was called.. went to the nurse pod to get my jab. Nurse asks where my letter from my GP is. I ask her what she's talking about. Since the stuff ups with astra zucchini you need a document from your gp to get Pfizer. She asked me what my history was. I rattled off my health issues which kind of frustrated me. Only to be told they won't vaccinate me. I tell her it would've been nice to have been told I needed a letter before I wasted my time getting out there. I won't be rushing back, I talked to my GP. Apparently there is more scrutiny around requiring a letter. I do tknow why I'm so surprised how badly the state and federal government's have fucked this rollout.

I thought it was only astrazenica that needed a doctors letter??

[DELTAprime]

It seems really stupid that they are requiring a letter from your doctor. All I had to do to get my vaccine back in April was fill out the details in the federal government's questionnaire.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

PSA for Tassie folk: bookings (registration and actual appointments, you have to do both) are now open for 30s+. Pfizer. Actual jabs start early-mid September. No doctor's notes necessary, though obviously check with them if you have any issues of concern. https://www.coronavirus.tas.gov.au/v...k-your-vaccine , or Tasmanian Public Health Hotline: 1800 671 73 .

Get in quick before Gladys Berejiklian comes over the Bass Strait on the Ruby Princess and steals them all!

[morg176]

More an unresolved observation than anything, but on the worldometers.info website, under the countries listing for corona, there are daily new infections/recoveries graphs for each country (orange and green graph). Some countries such as Australia and Canada have 'recovery spikes' that stand out as interesting if nothing else. What caused these recovery spikes, can 'it' be induced to recover more people?

Your thoughts and assumptions : )

[G1Optimal]

What do people think about the nsw police taking over the nsw healh orders and getting lawyers to help them

[Seraphim Prime]

More an unresolved observation than anything, but on the worldometers.info website, under the countries listing for corona, there are daily new infections/recoveries graphs for each country (orange and green graph). Some countries such as Australia and Canada have 'recovery spikes' that stand out as interesting if nothing else. What caused these recovery spikes, can 'it' be induced to recover more people?

Your thoughts and assumptions : )

It's hard to say for the newer spikes, but part of the large spikes last year would be a combination of what defines "recovery" and when that milestone is reported - quite possibly a single day when a lot of the low impact cases were transferred from "active" to "recovered"