From chaos to calm? COVID in the community

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Amazing 2021

From chaos to calm? COVID in the community

Martin

Johnston

mjohnston@nzdoctor.co.nz

Wednesday 8 December 2021, 09:00 AM

There is “amazing, incredible” and “amazing, shocking”. For general practice, events of 2021 fell all along that spectrum. Whether it was the amazing, incredible COVID-19 response provided by general practice and Māori and Pacific health services in an almost vacuum of support from officialdom, or the amazing, unbelievable tangles ensuing as care in the community rolled out, it was all complicated and complex – literally, a maze. In the following pages, the New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa team picks up a few of the themes of a tumultuous 2021

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