Originally Posted by
layman
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-...ital/100361200
Sydney numbers are high but I wouldn’t have thought them catastrophic and yet patients are already being diverted to Wollongong.
I don’t this as a reflection on Sydney hospitals just the additional workload Covid places on staff & facilities.
We’re going to need high levels of vaccination AND continued application of pandemic protocols for a while yet.
sydney is going to be locked down until at least early October, another 2 months. At least.
the problem is the length of time WuHu flu patients spend in icu. Normally a patient might spend a few days there, maybe a week if severe. The average for WuHu flu is more like 3 weeks. Or 21 days. So one WuHu flu patient is equivalent to about 5 or 6 normal patients.