The 9am figures not disclosed yet?

The question they should be asking, and asking time and time again, is why wasn't treatment available in Adelaide?
Agreed.
Lots of questions need answering. But if the option was there to transfer the patients to another hospital with the staff required to do such an operation then it should have happened.
 
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Hope this horrific episode goes towards fixing the shortfall in medical care in that part of world. Still does not excuse what has happened.

How does a doctor explain to a family that the baby they've just brought into the world cannot receive potentially life saving treatment because of a risk of covid infection?
 
Today's headline analysis:

• 26,668 new cases reported in 24-hour period, up from yesterday's 21,331
• 7-day average for new cases increases by 5.5% to 19,227 per day, following 3.3% increase yesterday (and 50th increase in the past 53 days)
• 7-day average for new cases is 21.9% higher than one week ago (from 21.8% higher yesterday) and 47.9% higher than two weeks ago (from 52.0% higher yesterday and 153.5% higher 7 days ago)
• 191 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported in 24-hour period, down from 241 yesterday
• 7-day average for new deaths within 28 days of a positive test increases by 5.7% to 143 per day, following 11.5% increase yesterday (and 34th increase in the past 36 days)
• 7-day average for new deaths within 28 days of a positive test is 56.7% higher than one week ago (from 65.6% higher yesterday) and 169.6% higher than two weeks ago (from 154.4% higher yesterday and 127.8% higher 7 days ago)
 
I’m assuming that the above chart is an attempt to claim (again) that the recent trend in infections is downwards and that, therefore, we’ve already peaked?

If so, I shall explain (again) that the problem with using cases by specimen date is that you have to completely ignore the most recent 5 days’ data. This is because, due to delays in processing test results, the numbers for each of those days will undergo a significant upwards transformation over the following days.

If you do ignore the most recent 5 days, you can see the clear trend remains upwards. You can also see that, following a 4-5 day spike in cases, there always appears to be a slight fall for a few days, followed by another spike. I can only assume this is due to administrative reasons in the conduct of tests themselves.

Every week, someone posts one of these charts to try and show that cases are now falling. Every week, so far, they have been wrong.

At some point, of course, we will actually peak and they will claim that they called it correctly. This will conveniently ignore the previous weeks/months when they incorrectly claimed exactly the same thing.
 
Oh dear that's just fantastic Randy...

Serious question to everyone on this thread, do you think we will be testing for covid/a new virus/tracking and tracing people in 5 years?
 
Today's headline analysis:

• 21,242 new cases reported in 24-hour period, down from yesterday's 26,668
• 7-day average for new cases increases by 1.7% to 19,550 per day, following 5.5% increase yesterday (and 51st increase in the past 54 days)
• 7-day average for new cases is 22.4% higher than one week ago (from 21.9% higher yesterday) and 34.6% higher than two weeks ago (from 47.9% higher yesterday and 158.7% higher 7 days ago)
• 189 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported in 24-hour period, slightly down from 191 yesterday
• 7-day average for new deaths within 28 days of a positive test increases by 5.1% to 151 per day, following 5.7% increase yesterday (and 35th increase in the past 37 days)
• 7-day average for new deaths within 28 days of a positive test is 50.4% higher than one week ago (from 56.7% higher yesterday) and 170.3% higher than two weeks ago (from 169.6% higher yesterday and 133.7% higher 7 days ago)
 
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