The answer is and always was to safely begin creating immunity through either exposure or vaccination – and it’s certainly much more preferable to be vaccinated first.
By Interchange Australia Human Resources Manager Alastair Orr
The difference between a pandemic and an epidemic, is that a pandemic has spread across multiple countries and geographical areas.
Sometimes here at home, COVID-19 has felt more like an epidemic, as the initially effective policies of state and international border closures and low case numbers lulled us into a false sense of security. The Delta variant has burst our bubble.
Indeed it was always going to be burst, by a virus that evolves quicker than we are able to, and that can exist asymptomatically in humans, and exist and be transmitted also by animals. We cannot lockdown animals, and we cannot lockdown people indefinitely either.
The answer is and always was to safely begin creating immunity through either exposure or vaccination – and it’s certainly much more preferable to be vaccinated first.
As case numbers here in New South Wales begin to steadily increase, and we see and hear stories of people and places we know – one thing is changing, we are finally becoming wearier of the virus than the vaccine. This is why vaccine uptake in the State has soared, and this is an overwhelmingly good thing.
And as doctors across the State and the world increasingly only treat unvaccinated patients for COVID – this truly is turning into a secondary pandemic for the unvaccinated. Interchange will not play a part in that secondary pandemic; that’s why we are already ensuring that we prioritise and recruit for vaccinated staff.
