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Healthcare workers caught COVID-19 in Victoria in their thousands, so what went wrong? – ABC News
An investigation into the large number of Victorian healthcare workers who caught COVID-19 at work identifies some of the key factors that allowed so many to get…
In early 2020 during Victoria’s first wave, just one healthcare worker caught COVID-19 on the job in all of Western Health, a group of public hospitals, day hospitals and community-based health services in western Melbourne.
This nurse had cared for an abattoir worker who’d come in with a workplace injury and later tested positive for coronavirus, before the Cedar Meats outbreak was understood. No one else who was involved in the man’s care was infected.
Fast forward to the second wave, and 3,573…
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