A former Health and Disability Commissioner, Ron Paterson is concerned that some people isolating at home, because there's no room at MIQ, are falling through the cracks and not being adequately monitored. 4264 people are isolating at home in this outbreak, including just 1855 Covid cases. In some cases very ill people have not received emails for phone calls to check on their condition and are being asked to report oxygen levels with no pulse oximeter and being offered throat lozenges and paracetamol as treatment. Ron Paterson says this is an unacceptable state of affairs.
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