Australia's population of 26 million is comparable to Florida's 22 million, but when you consider
the figures around COVID-19, the numbers are starkly different. Currently, Australia's daily COVID
cases are being measured in the hundreds, but last week Florida recorded more than 150,000 cases.
The total number of deaths in Australia is still less than 1,000; Florida has now passed 41,000.
[ABC News Australia, 20 August 2021 ]
There's also been shock at the devastation being wrought by the Delta variant on younger patients.
"It's between the ages of 25 and 40, so it's really young patients that are dying right now," said
David De La Zerda, the manager of ICU at Florida's largest hospital, Jackson Memorial Hospital.
"In about 36 hours, we had 80 new patients in the ICU, which is pretty dramatic... five per cent of
our patients are vaccinated, and 95 per cent are unvaccinated".
And governor DeSantis makes this all possible? Fuck me... what a great guy!
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the figures around COVID-19, the numbers are starkly different. Currently, Australia's daily COVID
cases are being measured in the hundreds, but last week Florida recorded more than 150,000 cases.
The total number of deaths in Australia is still less than 1,000; Florida has now passed 41,000.
[ABC News Australia, 20 August 2021 ]
There's also been shock at the devastation being wrought by the Delta variant on younger patients.
"It's between the ages of 25 and 40, so it's really young patients that are dying right now," said
David De La Zerda, the manager of ICU at Florida's largest hospital, Jackson Memorial Hospital.
"In about 36 hours, we had 80 new patients in the ICU, which is pretty dramatic... five per cent of
our patients are vaccinated, and 95 per cent are unvaccinated".
And governor DeSantis makes this all possible? Fuck me... what a great guy!
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