{"id":35561,"date":"2021-11-05T22:35:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T11:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=35561"},"modified":"2021-11-05T22:35:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T11:35:53","slug":"hospital-admissions-up-head-in-sands-dont-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=35561","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Admissions Up &#8211; Head In Sands Don&#8217;t Know Why!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Aus_Vax_Rates_20211103-169x300.png\" alt=\"Aus Vax Rates 20211103\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Aus_Vax_Rates_20211103-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Aus_Vax_Rates_20211103-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Aus_Vax_Rates_20211103.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The hospitals in Australia are being overrun. Not from Covid. And no one can explain why.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Berenson writes:<\/p>\n<p>So said Mark McGowan, the premier of Western Australia &#8211; which has almost 3 million people &#8211; in an interview with Sky News Australia on Sun., Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s his exact quotation:<\/p>\n<p>Our hospitals are under enormous pressure. This is the same in [the rest of Australia]. This has been something no one has ever seen before, the growth in demand in our hospitals, why it is is hard, hard to know\u2026 There is huge numbers of people coming through the door, so we\u2019re doing everything we can to try to manage it.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, Covid is not causing the hospital crisis in Western Australia. The state has incredibly strict border restrictions, even by Australian standards, and almost no cases.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8211; like the rest of Australia &#8211; it has very high vaccination rates.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s past time to start asking what is going on.<\/p>\n<p>You can see McGowan\u2019s comments for yourself here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alexberenson.substack.com\/p\/the-hospitals-in-australia-are-being\/comments\">https:\/\/alexberenson.substack.com\/p\/the-hospitals-in-australia-are-being\/comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hospitals in Australia are being overrun. Not from Covid. And no one can explain why. Alex Berenson writes: So said Mark McGowan, the premier of Western Australia &#8211; which has almost 3 million people &#8211; in an interview with Sky News Australia on Sun., Oct. 31. Here\u2019s his exact quotation: Our hospitals are under &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=35561\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hospital Admissions Up &#8211; Head In Sands Don&#8217;t Know Why!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35563,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35561\/revisions\/35563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}