[Link] Cops and Paramedics Involved in Elijah McClain Death Charged With Homicide

Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The police officers and paramedics who stopped 23-year-old Elijah McClain and administered a fatal dose of ketamine to the unarmed Black man are being charged with homicide, more than two years after his death.

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[Link] As paramedics in south-west Sydney we are pushed beyond exhaustion – and into a dystopian world

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

It’s been nearly 18 months since I wrote about Covid-19 first hitting our shores and spreading to our suburbs. The transmissibility and virulence of the Delta strain has pushed the ambulance service beyond the brink of exhaustion.

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