Why a cricket ground was transformed into a medical ward, amid fears it was already too late to respond to COVID-19

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Canberra's pop-up emergency department, constructed in just 37 days beside the Canberra Hospital on Garran Oval, will now likely sit idle and may never see a patient. But to understand why the facility was built, one needs to think back just eight weeks.

To understand why the facility was built, we need to think back just eight weeks.

"In Australia … we were starting to get really increased numbers of COVID-19 cases, day on day," she said.Advice was being handed to National Cabinet around what sort of capacity might be needed, which was then being passed on to state and territory health systems to transform into reality. Maps were drawn outlining how capacity could be extended across the ACT's health system, but Ms Stephen-Smith said they knew time was not a luxury they could afford.

Supply chains for critical medical equipment were breaking down world-wide, and Canberra staff were anxious.And where you could usually order as many as needed, and have them delivered in less than 24 hours, orders were being placed with no confidence as to when they might arrive.

 

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Well done to the proactive ACT govt for planning to look after their citizens in case of the worst happened. You only have to look at the US to see how bad it could have been.

Yet another empty hospital for the corona hoax.

But some 'insider' contractor made a nice fat buck.

who is surprised?

More proof of how the 'experts' got it so wrong.

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