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New rules give clue to when Omicron might peak in WA

Simon Beaumont
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The McGowan government has likely forecast Western Australia’s Omicron outbreak will peak in March and April.

AMA WA president Mark Duncan-Smith said the government’s announcement yesterday to ban elective surgery category 2 and 3 bookings from February 28 indicated it believed cases would surge in the following two months.

“What it suggests to me is that their modelling is predicting that the peak is somewhere in March, April,” Dr Duncan-Smith told Liam Bartlett on 6PR Mornings.

He said the AMA was frustrated by the lack of transparency from the government in sharing health advice, which helps guide its COVID modelling.

“As you know Liam it’s top secret, I don’t really understand it. It doesn’t give us transparency, it doesn’t give anyone else the ability to look at anything… it gives them the ability to go do what they want to do,” he said.

Dr Duncan-Smith also said WA’s 14-day isolation period was “unnecessary” from a medical standpoint because the chances of contracting COVID from a close contact in the second week of isolation was less than one per cent.

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Simon Beaumont
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