Health
The test that confirms worst virus fear – Daily Mercury
A new study has shown why COVID-19 is so wildly infectious and scientists say it’s a “smoking gun” for healthcare workers.
It’s a pandemic’s worst-case scenario: a disease so contagious it quickly kills the doctors and nurses attempting to combat it.
COVID-19 isn’t that pandemic.
But it is persistently bypassing personal protection and facility containment measures to infect medical staff. That threatens the ability of medical services to treat the general public.
In Victoria alone, 1600 healthcare workers have already been infected. The cause remains unknown.
Simulations run after the SARS and Swine Flu scares …
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