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Lost in transmission: GPs ‘forgotten’ in COVID-19 response – The Age

A local doctor who treated Al-Taqwa College students says he could have helped contain the outbreak – if only DHHS had told him there was one at the school.

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Although Victorias Department of Health and Human Services insists GPs are providing a vital service throughout the pandemic, doctors have expressed frustration they aren’t being given information about cases in their neighbourhoods beyond the public, daily briefings provided by the government.
It is a bit lonely as a GP at the moment, said Tamsin Franklin, a doctor who has set up a walk-in COVID-19-testing clinic in the car park behind her Northcote practice.
Dr Tamsin Franklin says the pande…

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