Health
How one aged care group kept the virus out of its Melbourne homes – The Age
While coronavirus cut a deadly swath through scores of Melbourne aged care homes, Hope Aged Care’s metropolitan centres stayed COVID-free. How did they do it?
Any surgeon on this planet, what they fear most, its infection.
Outbreaks of gastroenteritis at two of his homes a few years before the pandemic meant they were well stocked with sanitiser, but in March, when COVID-19 first appeared, I bought 55 five-litre bottles … I thought, If this is going to go through, there is going to be shortages, I then ordered like you have no idea and I got my staff to take it home.
Sanitiser, lots and lots of PPE, I just had a room full of stuff.
He then sat his staff…
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