Urgent category-one surgery is having to be rescheduled at some Victorian hospitals amid crippling staff shortages, as doctors warn of a rise in people arriving at hospital with life-threatening complications after coronavirus and flu infections.
State health bosses are weighing drastic measures to cope with a surge in hospitalisations as secret modelling shows the latest COVID-19 variants could make more people seriously ill in coming weeks than at the peak of summer’s Omicron wave.
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