I understand your point. You're arguing that some hospitals have gone against the state legislation and/or policy and independently signed up to the database. I can't entirely exclude the possibility, but if so it's going to be a pretty massive scandal here
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Replying to @reverendofdoubt @ADAlthousePhD and
I think I should explain a bit more, because how the system works here is important. Individual hospitals here aren't self-governing - they report up to some sort of local area network, who reports up to the state government
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Replying to @GidMK @reverendofdoubt and
Now, it varies from state to state, but in NSW and Victoria that's basically how it works - individual hospitals literally don't *own* the data, it's owned by a state corporation that reports up to the state health department
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Replying to @GidMK @reverendofdoubt and
At the absolute minimum, you'd need to get one of these local corporations to sign off. But, there's a problem, because they answer to the state govt, and while they technically have the ability to do this sort of deal, in practice it's governed by local policy
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Replying to @GidMK @reverendofdoubt and
It makes absolutely no sense to count Australian inputs in terms of "hospitals", because unless you're talking about private hospitals (which haven't treated COVID cases), an individual hospital literally couldn't sign off on something like this (in most states)
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And if they mean local area networks, it would be an ENORMOUS scandal if they had done this without state approval
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Replying to @GidMK @reverendofdoubt and
Moreover, when the states refer to their data, they are not talking about disease notification datasets - they have individual line data on every patient who attends a public hospital If they say the data doesn't match up to that, it's extremely worrying
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Replying to @GidMK @reverendofdoubt and
Should also add, as some people have noted, the study reports a number of patients receiving chloroquine in Australia but the drug is not available here (HCQ is)pic.twitter.com/4X2c91RC3U
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I'd say it's more likely that a famous actress confused the two drugs than that the Australian federal govt is wrong about which drugs are available in the country
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