Originally Posted by
Roj approved
My mother in law and the rest of the family live in WA, and I can assure you they are more than happy with us COVID carrying eastern staters to stay out of WA. They are a very parochial bunch anyway, but this has just reinforced it. They love McGowan, but word on the street is they don’t have a contact tracing division, or a decent supply of respirators and other ICU type medical equipment, and after the SA blip, they are madly trying to get their act together just in case.
Rubbish! WA has had an automated monitoring and contact tracing system in place since April. 50 staff with a standby pool of 400, expanding to 1000. 4691 additional response pool positions in medicine, nursing, pathology etc. Surge capacity ICU beds to 647, 273 ventilators (90 more on order) giving an estimate to manage 25,800 active cases. Targeting 40wks of PPE (Some items at this level, remaining around 18wks supply). Aged care response plan tested in August. All documented in Attorney Generals report in September. GtoG App with ability to home isolate (photo schedule messaging) and just implemented QR code sign in app for restaurants etc.