Health
‘My dad shouldn’t have died’: daughter says her warnings to aged care home on Covid masks were brushed aside – The Guardian
Amanda Miha says Victorian home was following state and federal medical advice and updating that earlier would have saved lives
A woman who wrote to a Victorian aged care home, imploring for masks to be made mandatory for staff in the weeks before her father contracted Covid-19 and died, says she believes deaths would have been prevented if masks were made compulsory in the sector earlier.
On 13 July, the federal government announced aged care staff who work in residential facilities or provide home care support would be required to wear masks in lockdown zones. On 23 July, the Victorian government made masks mandatory …
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