COVID-19 / Australia / 18th December Update

We capped off a week when ‘Covid Freedoms’ kicked in with a huge rise in cases in New South Wales and Victoria, jumps in Queensland and South Australia too, plus a fair bit of general anxiety about what the surge might mean and how much case numbers might grow.
Today’s Covid figure in New South Wales, 2482, is the highest daily total of any state in Australia since the pandemic began.
However with over 90% of the population vaccinated, the true test of the success of the state government’s ‘let her rip’ policy will come in one or two weeks time when the hospitalisation figures are released.
In past waves case numbers and hospitalisation numbers have been in step.
Theoretically this should not be the case this time around.
But it’s been noted that being fully vaccinated but without a booster lowers the resistance to the new variant, Omicron, considerably.