Record COVID case numbers reported in 2 Australian states

Look at how the media and governments shift the goal posts for their own benefit (and to keep fear stoked).

Now, it's not about "deaths" - not a single mention about "deaths" in this entire article. It's not about "hospitalizations" either. This article seems more worried about "testing facilities" being strained now, lol!

No, now it's about "case numbers" (as in including asymptomatic but testing positive, positive but barely ill, positive but no more ill that one would be with the flu...all the way up to the seriously sick..all thrown together, with zero information about age ranges, or whether these "sick" are also "fully vaxed" or not.)

Nice trick! "Cases". "Cases" will NEVER go to zero, if you haven't noticed. They just keep going...mutation after mutation, year after year...

Hito Bito

Look at how the media and governments shift the goal posts for their own benefit (and to keep fear stoked).

Now, it's not about "deaths" - not a single mention about "deaths" in this entire article. It's not about "hospitalizations" either. This article seems more worried about "testing facilities" being strained now, lol!

Considering deaths lag cases, the news here is the cases. In several weeks, or a month or so, it could be about the deaths. Not that deaths due to Covid have doubled in Australia since around September.

No, now it's about "case numbers" (as in including asymptomatic but testing positive, positive but barely ill, positive but no more ill that one would be with the flu...all the way up to the seriously sick..all thrown together, with zero information about age ranges, or whether these "sick" are also "fully vaxed" or not.)

Case numbers have always been reported.

Nice trick! "Cases". "Cases" will NEVER go to zero, if you haven't noticed. They just keep going...mutation after mutation, year after year...

It's not a "trick". Case numbers in Australia have exploded and that's newsworthy. The cases numbers are four times the previous record high - so. it's a big deal.

*Note

Someone is making ALOT of money on testing….

Omicron is the soft variant. Let it run wild.

In the last 7 days Australia did 1.97 million tests in a population of 25 million !! Positive test rate of 0.6%. Hospitalizations remain low so it seems Omicron is much less serious than Delta and hopefully is our way out of the pandemic.

The ICU levels are promising. 60 in ICU in NSW and the capacity, 2 years ago, was 1500. So yeah Im not worried about ICU capacity

I wish they would release seperate figures on discharge from hospital per day. It would be good to get an idea of how long people are spending in hospital, the rate of churn with Omicron and therefore more accurately predict trends in overall numbers. No such figures exist as far as I know....

No lockdown policy anymore from one case ?

Record COVID case numbers

OK, but how about hospitalizations and deaths? If this is Omicron, you can expect them to be around zero. This recent fixation on "cases" in the media is completely misleading. Is it accidental?

Boosters have only just started so these numbers don’t reflect it. Nsw vic numbers have peaked is my guess. Saitama has over 100 locations you can get a pcr test at the pharmacy without symptoms now, is it easier to get tested now or am I dreaming?

Omicron is the soft variant. Let it run wild.

Only a very small % of cases are of the Omicron variant thus far. The vaccines weren't working long before the much vaunted Omicron variant.

Complete waste of time and resources. Palaszczuk is a truly disgusting woman.

Zaphod

Record COVID case numbers

OK, but how about hospitalizations and deaths? If this is Omicron, you can expect them to be around zero. This recent fixation on "cases" in the media is completely misleading. Is it accidental?

No. Hospitalizations and deaths lag cases, so of course cases will be reported first.

No. Hospitalizations and deaths lag cases, so of course cases will be reported first.

Logic won’t work. I’ve tried it.