Doctors call for military help as travel bans, border closures bite

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Michael Kidd, the principal medical adviser to the federal Department of Health, said he would meet with rural doctors' organisations today to discuss their concerns. "There is wonderful work that's taking place right across the country with groups of doctors coming together, knowing, perhaps, that in this town there's a vulnerable doctor that needs to be doing telehealth, [they are discussing] how can the doctors in nearby towns assist the patients of that doctors," Dr Kidd said.

"They have disadvantaged populations that, you know, if COVID-19 got into those populations it may travel through those populations faster," Dr Meldrum said. "They have populations with more health needs and more co-morbidities. So it is likely that their populations might suffer disproportionately worse than healthier populations.

Now this is getting beyond a joke, is anyone keeping count we're not a big population and we're not going to have as many as the other countries FFS

Those Chinooks would be really helpful right now.

where is all going to end, when the panic is going to finish...US is going to open it borders and relax self distancing rules

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