Amity FP Boolaroo

Medical Centre, GP, Doctors Surgery

[NSW Health @NSWHealth]

Aggression towards health professionals is never okay.

Health staff are there to help and are doing their best. They deserve to feel safe at work.

Please be respectful.

[CDC @CDCgov]

You may be fully vaccinated against #COVID19, but children too young to get vaccinated still need to be protected. If your child is 2 years & older, make sure your child wears a mask in public settings. See more ways to help protect family members. https://t.co/Kn6o9DQ4L5

[NSW Health @NSWHealth]

How do COVID-19 vaccines work?

For more information on Australia's vaccination program, visit: https://t.co/R1Iv18pDRa

[NSW Health @NSWHealth]

A sore or scratchy throat is one of the symptoms of COVID-19. Even if you have mild symptoms get tested for COVID-19 immediately.

A COVID-19 test is free, quick and easy. Most people in NSW receive their test result within 24 hours.

Visit https://t.co/LmeATJ8ltz for clinics.

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

Join our new #WearAMask challenge & protect your loved ones from #COVID19.
To break the chains of transmission, we must also:
-Keep physical distance
-Keep cleaning your 👐
-Keep away from big crowds
-Keep covering your 👄&👃 when & cough
𝗗𝗼 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹!

[NSW Health @NSWHealth]

Even if you have mild symptoms get tested for COVID-19 ASAP. Symptoms include fever, cough, sore/scratchy throat, shortness of breath, loss of smell & taste, runny nose, joint pain, muscle pain, headache, diarrhoea, nausea/vomiting and loss of appetite: https://t.co/LmeATIQK4Z

[NSW Health @NSWHealth]

Something as simple as opening a car door, using an ATM or safely crossing the road, can lead to the spread of #COVID19. Don’t forget to wash your hands to protect you and your loved ones.

It’s up to all of us to keep healthy and well.

https://t.co/kyxAweTbfi

[Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) President @RACGPPresident]

Imminent changes to MBS items for ECGs are likely to result in higher costs for patients. @RACGP will continue advocated strongly against this. We need more investment in primary care for patients, not less.

https://t.co/UyTqHsgBZ6

[Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) President @RACGPPresident]

Most countries invest about 10-13% of their health spending in primary care (i.e. general practice). In Australia we only invest about 8%. The @RACGP Vision for General Practice calls for a more sustainably funded model to improve the health of the nation.
https://t.co/2k1fFCR6RC

[Newcastle Herald @newcastleherald]

UPDATED: First COVID-19 death strikes Hunter New England https://t.co/R5NEf2lqfJ

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

A five-year-old child with underlying health conditions is among 708 in UK who died with coronavirus over past day https://t.co/EXNK9WsH0a

[Jessica Urquhart @jesurquhartOSC]

05/04/2020 5:45pm

🇦🇺 Total 5,689🔺137
🦠Active 4,833

Deaths 35🔺5 (+1 QLD)*
🏥ICU 83
💚Recovered 822▲123

🔹Tests 293,733▲6,423

NSW-2,580🔺87
VIC-1,135🔺20
QLD-907🔺7
SA-409🔺2
WA-453🔺17
ACT-96🔺3
TAS-82
NT-27🔺1

https://t.co/1AyHoPBIkz

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

India's 1.3 billion people will go into full lockdown in just four hours time in bid to slow coronavirus - PM Modi https://t.co/xiSvabvzoZ

[David P Gelles @gelles]

The World Health Organization warns young people: “You are not invincible.”

COVID-19 could "put you in hospital for weeks, or even kill you. Even if you don’t get sick, the choices you make about where you go could be the difference between life and death for someone else.”

[Dr Andrew Miller - bring back disease prevention @drajm]

"Keep fighting the good fight. We are all about to get slammed on the front lines"

Perth Suburban GP

Get them some bloody masks & slow this down until they are protected there & in ED & in ICU. We owe it to the ones who WILL get sick.

[Jessica Urquhart @jesurquhartOSC]

19/03/2020 6:45pm

🇦🇺 Confirmed-708
Total Deaths-6

New Today-140

NSW-307 - 5 deaths
QLD-144
VIC-149
SA-42
WA-52* - 1 death
TAS- 10
ACT-3
NT-1

Recovered-25

See pinned post for current stats

*denotes new numbers

[MJA Editor in Chief @MJA_Editor]

Coronavirus Australia: Pandemic modeller. “We always knew, we knew on the 3rd of February, that there come a point when it would be inevitable that our capacity could not completely put out every spark” Note the date. #COVID2019AU https://t.co/TgvuCWCeSo

[Prof Jane Munro @DrJaneMunro]

So...have been discussing this with colleagues and in fact with my medical husband.

Aussie health services:

are you planning a bioethics response team in your #covid-19 strategy to improve care for patients, support decision making & minimise moral injury for clinicians?

[Australian Dept of Health, Disability and Ageing @healthgovau]

A national plan has been activated to manage the virus and support our community.

[Amity FP Boolaroo @amityfpb]

Doctors warn Australia is heading for Italy-level disaster https://t.co/2y0Lcwjcb2