OzSAGE, a multi-disciplinary network of Australian experts, is today sounding the alarm on the number of daily deaths due to COVID-19 in Australia. With COVID cases still increasing and winter rapidly approaching, Australia must take protective action to prevent deaths and disability. Hospitalisations remain high, with over 3,000 people admitted nationwide. This has resulted in […]
Maintaining Ambulance Service Capacity During COVID-19
During the Omicron surge, ambulance services are experiencing increased patient numbers, emergency department ramping, shortages of supplies such as personal protective equipment (PPE), and staff absences resulting from staff being furloughed, awaiting testing, becoming infected or as a result of exhaustion and burn-out. As a result, we are now seeing the predicted overwhelming of ambulance […]