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Inside Brisbane’s COVID-19 crisis at the Princess Alexandra Hospital
In the disarming afterglow of vaccines arriving, Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra (PA) Hospital has become an unlikely source of COVID-19 outbreaks that have crossed a state border.
Key points:
- Two separate community outbreaks of the highly-infectious B117 variant started with a nurse and doctor at Brisbane’s PA hospital
- Experts say the hospital has reliable infection control, but the virus may have spread through eye rubbing
- Some frontline staff are still waiting for the first vaccine, others are panicked over the outbreaks
The hospital has long boasted “one of the best infection control programs” around, according to Mary-Louise McLaws, a professor of epidemiology at the University of New South Wales.
“They have a reputation of being very…
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