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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>COVID-19 Hospital Response</name>
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        <heading>COVID-19 Hospital Response</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5419" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. F. PANGALLO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2021-08-26">
            <name>COVID-19 Hospital Response</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5419">The Hon. F. PANGALLO (15:12):</by>  I thank the minister for his response. I imagine the pandemonium may have made him forget the specifics of my question. What I was after was what numbers would it take for SA Health to be no longer able to cope in our hospitals? Is there a number that our hospitals can accommodate before there are going to be issues? Is there a plan for that?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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          <question date="2021-08-26">
            <name>COVID-19 Hospital Response</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-08-26T15:12:41" />
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:12):</by>  Yes, sorry, I should have perhaps been more explicit in drawing the relationship—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  It is going to be constantly changing, because your expectations of hospitalisations and so forth will vary. They will constantly change on the basis of your vaccination rates. I undertake to seek information from SA Health that might be of interest to the honourable member, but I think it would be unrealistic to say that we have a formula, because there are so many variables.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Hon. Mr Pangallo, a supplementary.</text>
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