Data confirms ages of current Covid cases in NSW are different to first wave partly due to higher vaccination rates among older people
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The Delta virus spreading through greater Sydney is proving to be “an epidemic of younger people,” Prof Greg Dore, an infectious diseases doctor with St Vincent’s hospital in Sydney, said.
On Wednesday the NSW chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant announced a man in his 20s from south-western Sydney contracted the virus and died at his home on Tuesday. Aude Alaskar, 27, was being cared for by South Western Sydney Local Health District during his isolation period and was followed up daily by nursing staff. Milder cases are managed at home, while more serious cases are treated in hospital.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/05/sydney-covid-delta-variant-outbreak-an-epidemic-of-young-people
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