(1/3) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 23 September 2023
🔸COVID notifications increased by 10.5% in the past week
🔸Increases in COVID notifications occurred for children aged 0 – 4 years and adults aged 30 – 89 years and across most LHDs
🔹COVID: 2,171 (+256)
🔹Influenza: 1,688 (+87)
🔹RSV: 564 (-77)
Source: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/weekly-reports.aspx
"Law experts from Charles Darwin University say the Covid-19 pandemic inquiry must focus on all levels of government to deal effectively with the lessons learned, not just the commonwealth response."
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Senator Murray Watt suggests royal commission not appropriate for COVID.
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In Hospitals, Viruses Are Everywhere. Masks Are Not.
"A recent study found that more cancer patients died of COVID during the Omicron surge than in the first winter wave, in part because people around them had stopped taking precautions."
Respiratory viruses can unmask or exacerbate chronic conditions of the heart, lung or kidneys and trigger autoimmune conditions. “It’s much bigger than simply the actual infection”
Source: https://nytimes.com/2023/09/23/health/hospitals-masking-mandates.html
"Family members of victims of Australia’s worst aged-care Covid-19 outbreak have called the limited scope of the federal government’s pandemic response inquiry “disappointing” as they continue to grapple with the life-changing consequences of that fiasco three years on."
"More pandemic-era measures could be rolled back in NSW after the state government moved to scrap a system that allowed people to register positive tests."
