Acute Respiratory Illness Response<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n Dear colleagues,<\/p>\n We currently have 145 active cases of COVID in our care, including 85 inpatients with 6 in ICU (4 ventilated). There are 60 patients in the Virtual Ward, a decrease since last week.<\/p>\n Today 283 staff are away from work due to either being COVID positive or requiring isolation due to being a close contact. This number does not include other types of sick leave.<\/p>\n We are planning to move to Tier 2 in our COVID and Influenza Response Plan on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n This will mean recommencing outpatient care (both in person and virtual), category 1 elective surgery and category 4 endoscopies, and long waits for all other categories.<\/p>\n I will provide more details tomorrow including the link to the plan on a page.<\/p>\n Until then, Metro North remains in Tier 3 of our COVID-19 and Influenza Response Plan.<\/p>\n We are running a staff only booster blitz across Metro North this week from Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 August (Pfizer vaccine only).<\/p>\n Please see below for facility specific details:<\/p>\n![\"Message](\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/ic-banner-ari.jpg\" "\\"ic-banner-ari\\"")
<\/span><\/div>Message from the Metro North Health Incident Controller – COVID-19 & Influenza update 441 | 15\/08\/2022<\/strong><\/h1><\/div>
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Current situation<\/h3>\n
Tier 2 planned move<\/h3>\n
Staff COVID vaccine boosters<\/h3>\n