A vaccine takes longer than people think. It won't be a year it could be 4 years.
In fact, when you have the vaccine you'd still have to wait out the 'Corona season' to see if it actually works.
Anyhow, our minister of health send a letter to parliament today.
Apparently the testing is not going well and only half of testing capacity is used. Because there's a strict bureaucracy that decides who gets tested or not.
So healthcare workers or people working in care homes don't get tested.
This is how the process works:
- A healthcare worker wants to get tested but they can't request a test themselves, this must be done by their manager
- The manager asks a doctor to assess if a test is needed or not
- The doctor sends a recommendation if a test is necessary to management
- Management decides if a test is necessary or not based on that recommendation
Workers are of course afraid to say they're sick (do I get fired?) nor do they know if they have to pay for the test themselves or not like for any other healthcare service (they don't have to but they don't know that).
The government is going to develop an "IT System" to improve this process.
Along with their contact tracing App, which after 7 vendors failed to present a viable plan will be built under the guidance of the health minister himself.
They learned a lot from the "Appathon" and finally have a clear objective. In 4 weeks they will present a plan and assess if they will go ahead to develop the App or not.
Also some cost cutting plans were leaked. Apparently none of that is necessary yadayada but it included mostly cuts in healthcare and education
Luckily our government just passed another 5 billion spending plan to reduce CO2.
