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News article from March 2024: Jo Gibbs, Interim Group Director of Operations for Health Canterbury - Te Whatu Ora Waitaha said the large number of very unwell patients all requiring care at the same time made yesterday particularly challenging.

"At its peak there were 124 people in the department, it dropped to 107 between 9 and 10pm and 87 at midnight. That is still a large number of unwell people to be looked after," she said.

The usual number of ED patients at midnight was 40-60, Gibbs said.

"Last night the admission rate was 32 percent - which means almost a third of all people coming to ED were so sick that they needed to be admitted to hospital.

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NZ is going to regret not having sensible people like you running the show Ursula ... and it is just so sickeningly obvious how 'sensible' has been so effortlessly derailed in this 'World of idiots' we live in ...

I truly think you are such a gem ... because so many people that have gone through our 'globally modeled' tertiary system ... are idiots ... and are running the show ...

There should be dozens of academics (like you) on Substack ... from NZ alone ... but there's not ... there's you ... and just a few like you (thanks Geoff) ...

I sent an email to NZ MSM today ... that would have woken a 'dead elephant' up ... as to the stories they are publishing from the likes of AP & Reuters ... and who is writing them ... but ... as usual ... there will probably be little reaction ... other than a handful of extra views on my Substack today ....

We are in a tunnel ... that's about all I can say without being too pessimistic ... but I hope you are right about the 'drama' ... bring it on as soon as possible is what I say!

You don't get enough thanks Ursula ... but I'm sure one day ... a lot of Kiwis are going to really appreciate you chose to come and live in NZ

regards

pb

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PS If anyone is able to find anything on the web about Ms Joanne (Jo) Gibbs, I’m very keen to see where she is now!

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Apr 8Liked by Ursula Edgington, PhD

"having been trained in this skill" is exactly right.

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Apr 8Liked by Ursula Edgington, PhD

And on 7 September the Minutes record 2 people named Jo Gibbs and 2 people named Wendy Illingworth in the meeting!

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Apr 8·edited Apr 8Liked by Ursula Edgington, PhD

I did the same thing with the Western Australia Vaccination Strategic Coordination Group.

During 'covid zero,' they met multiple times as the unbelievable jab harms rolled in and not just continued to push the jab, but then decided to mandate it. I plotted the timing of their meetings on the histogram of the monthly jab harm reports, which they saw.

All their names are public as well so I published them. They basically sat there, under a spell, and kept going.

https://vicparkpetition.substack.com/p/in-2021-west-australian-government

Edit: lots of 'tea breaks' and 'welcome to country' in the agendas so we all know these are good people!

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Apr 8Liked by Ursula Edgington, PhD

Thank you for your research.

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