Doctors warn hospitals could be swamped under roadmap to reopen
The alert is based on modelling on NSW released by a group of experts including Professor Raina MacIntyre
A group of prominent pandemic experts is warning the NSW health system may be “overwhelmed” under the state government’s ‘roadmap to freedom’.
University of NSW modelling released by OzSAGE projects hospitals and ICUs could be forced into ‘code black’ for five weeks over the Christmas period if the current plan to reopen is followed.
A code black would mean all ICU beds would be full, with patient care compromised, health workers endangered and case fatalities to rise, the modelling report declares.
OzSAGE is a newly-formed network of doctors and infectious disease experts who aim to provide “well-researched and robustly debated” independent expert advice to the federal and state governments on the pandemic exit strategy.
