Here is the full definition of what is permitted for fully vaccinated people as of 11th of October in NSW: https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/rules/rules-for-fully-vaccinated-people-nsw From 11 October 2021, new rules are in place for fully vaccinated people in NSW. You are fully vaccinated if you have had 2 doses of a COVID-19 vaccination or you have a medical exemption. Children under 16 years of age who are not fully vaccinated can generally follow the rules for fully vaccinated people so long as they visit certain businesses with a fully vaccinated member of your household. For people over the age of 16 who are not fully vaccinated, more rules and restrictions apply. You are not fully vaccinated if you have had: only one dose of a COVID-19 vaccination or no doses of a COVID-19 vaccination. ...
Until very recently AZ was not allowed to be given to under 60s unless via a doctor consult ... you tried to get the vaccine from a doctor recently? As for adverse effects ... 18 year old daughter, med student, read all the info and decided AZ (being the only one avail ) was safe ... over a week in hospital and slowly recovering 4 weeks later. Her (now) cardio specialist couldn't believe she chose AZ I'm still an advocate for AZ but this had tempered my enthusiasm for the youngsters to take it
No, maybe I didn't word it well. What I meant to say was that most of the Sydney LGAs haven't got the 70% vax, although close, so if the total of 70% is for all of NSW, the regionals must be doing good.
Wow, sorry this happened. Similar happened to our neighbour across the road, but her vax of choice was Pfizer.
I don't think you're seeing the whole picture in that table - it's not reasonable to infer that because vaccination rates in those LGAs listed is below the state total, then it's the regions doing the heavy lifting. Here is a heat map that shows double-dose vaccination status in LGAs across the state as of 3rd October. The darkest colour shows locations where more than 80% have received both doses (only Hornsby, Hills Shire, Ku-ring-gai and Murray River LGAs), the next grey-ish blue shade is the 60-79% range. The darker green is 50-59% and the lighter green 30-49%. Zooming in to show Greater Sydney - you can see most people are in the 60-79% band with only the city of Sydney lower. You can see a different view of the data here: First and Second Doses Administered by LGA in NSW - COVID Live Here is a list of all LGAs who are not yet at 70% double dose - those in bold are regional LGAs ... as you can see all of the very low vaccination LGAs are regional: 69.30% Narromine 69.20% Canada Bay 69.10% Waverley 68.90% Fairfield 68.80% Strathfield 68.70% Inner West 68.50% Liverpool 68.50% Penrith 68.50% Bega Valley 68.30% Mid-Western Regional 68.30% Wollondilly 68.00% Warrumbungle Shire 68.00% Canterbury-Bankstown 67.80% Forbes 67.60% Blayney 67.50% Bathurst Regional 67.50% Georges River 67.40% Cabonne 66.90% Burwood 66.90% Upper Hunter Shire 66.90% Hilltops 66.80% Parkes 66.80% Oberon 66.10% Bayside 66.10% Cumberland 66.00% Shoalhaven 65.80% Upper Lachlan Shire 65.60% Cowra 65.60% Broken Hill 65.30% Lockhart 65.20% Central Coast 65.10% Berrigan 64.90% Bland 64.80% Glen Innes Severn 63.70% Shellharbour 63.40% Randwick 63.30% Wollongong 63.00% Yass Valley 63.00% Port Macquarie-Hastings 62.50% Federation 62.30% Uralla 62.10% Port Stephens 61.80% Coolamon 61.40% Griffith 61.00% Lake Macquarie 60.80% Snowy Monaro Regional 60.60% Wagga Wagga 59.70% Snowy Valleys 59.60% Lithgow 59.50% Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional 58.90% Newcastle 58.80% Narrabri 58.70% Dungog 58.40% Sydney 58.30% Bellingen 58.20% Goulburn Mulwaree 58.20% Mid-Coast 57.80% Ballina 57.50% Armidale Regional 57.10% Tamworth Regional 56.60% Wentworth 55.70% Moree Plains 55.10% Maitland 55.10% Nambucca 54.80% Temora 54.60% Albury 54.30% Balranald 54.00% Narrandera 52.70% Leeton 52.70% Liverpool Plains 52.50% Junee 52.50% Tweed 52.40% Gwydir 52.10% Kempsey 52.00% Greater Hume Shire 51.60% Murrumbidgee 51.00% Coffs Harbour 50.30% Clarence Valley 50.30% Kyogle 49.90% Singleton 49.80% Richmond Valley 49.80% Inverell 49.20% Cessnock 47.70% Muswellbrook 47.00% Lismore 46.40% Gunnedah 45.10% Tenterfield 45.00% Edward River 41.60% Byron 0.00% Cobar 0.00% Coonamble 0.00% Bourke 0.00% Walgett 0.00% Bogan 0.00% Unincorporated NSW 0.00% Central Darling 0.00% Brewarrina 0.00% Carrathool
That heat map used to be available on the Covid Live site, but it's been removed. Was much easier to see things. Where is it now?
Gets rather messy too as the website uses aged 15+. Annoying where various sources use different ages as the base for calculating dosage rates. Not a great deal of difference - probably no more than 1% or so - but it'd be nice if all of them used the same numbers.
Quite understandable too. Very difficult to be totally objective when you have been personally impacted despite such an event being relatively rare. When the general risks go from 0.001% to 0.003% some in the health profession become even more cautious despite a 0.003% risk being extremely low. One of my brood used those sorts of numbers to get AZ early on when the events were starting to unfold in Sydney and signed the blood sheet.
Ahh - sorry, forgot to include a link ... NSW Gov stats site: https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/sta...-of-nsw-vaccinations-by-home-postcode-and-lga
I consider myself very objective - and still support AZ as the heavy lifter. I was simply having a mutter towards those who think all is hunky dory in the regionals and that it is their own fault they're not vaccinated. Even in Newcastle - 2nd largest city in NSW - until recently AZ was basically the only one available and hard to come by, with wait lists up to a month. The reason daughter choose AZ (would've preferred Pfizer) is because around early September, a stoopid selfish bunch of Sydneysiders illegally came to the area for a party and started an outbreak that was taking off ... daughter made an appointment for first available Pfizer anywhere in Newcastle for mid-December (3 months away for first dose - AZ wasn't avail for under 50s unless by docs appt and docs weren't making appts) ... mid-September AZ became avail thru a local pharmacy without a doctors appointment, Pfizer was still looking at December, outbreak was growing, she took the risk and ended up in hospital that night with difficulty breathing and racing blood pressure (now on meds) It's only in the last 2 weeks that Moderna is now available through pharmacies ... Pfizer is available at vaccine hubs but ONLY for those in priority groups (teachers, school students, First People's etc). Go an hour plus up the Hunter Valley and, until two weeks ago, there was literally nowhere to get a vaccine - docs only doing limited priority groups due to limited supply and nothing at pharmacies. Now there is a little more accessibility through select pharmacies, but it's still limited - only AZ with some Moderna - and now people have to wait the gap for the second shot.6the single dead protein shot instead of catching the live 28 protein *******. The result was a massively overreactive production of antibodies - which hopefully means she's well protected - and is not having to wait ** in conclusion - after her reaction, of massive overproduction of antibodies, I'm damn glad she got the single dead protein jobbie, instead of the live 28 protein *******. So no more AZ for her ... and still has to wait another 5 weeks to get her Pfizer
Video pre and post lockdown Who knew doing this is actually not easy when you’ve been out of training? Has gravity become a lot stronger?
Now that the Sydney lockdown is "hopefully over" forever, in my opinion @Gockie wins Not only because she had the closest *early estimate and opinion on how long the lockdown would last But also due to being adventurous in pursuing such diverse (odd) hobbies and interests So happy restrictions are easing finally *from what I can recall
This sucks! Before lockdown I could do this on both my right and left sides. Now I can only get my feet off the ground when I try Strong enough to shoulder mount? 3 conditioning exercises – The Pole PT
NSW fast tracks freedoms for fully vaccinated people, but bad news for those without COVID-19 jab Easing restrictions for fully vaccinated people in NSW that were due to come into effect on Dec 1 have been brought forward to Nov 8 However, the restrictions that were due to be eased for non-vaccainated people in NSW have now been pushed out to Dec 15, or whatever date NSW reaches 95% double dose coverage for people aged 16 and above.
You may or may not care but my ability to chin up is back on its way. Not exactly at pre lockdown levels, but vastly better than immediate post lockdown. So a personal tip... make sure this is practiced EVERY day. Losing strength is so easy.
