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I’m a doctor on Melbourne’s coronavirus front line. Suppression has failed – The New Daily

There is a media debate around suppression vs elimination. As a frontline doctor, the rate of health care worker infection is unsustainable.

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There has been considerable media debate around suppression vs elimination with commentary from epidemiologists and business leaders.
However, we have not heard enough about the impact pursuing a suppression strategy has on nurses and doctors on the front line.
As a frontline doctor in Victoria’s fight against the virus, my view is that the rate of health-care worker infection is unsustainable.
In fact, I am writing this from hotel quarantine after exposure to a presymptomatic colleague who c…

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