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More than 3200 people are suspected to have caught the virus while in hospital between January 1 and October 26 last year, according to leaked Victorian Health Department data. Of these patients, at least 344 – more than 10 per cent – died. Patients in hospitals are particularly vulnerable to COVID infections.

“Infections should not be occurring in healthcare facilities,” said Associate Professor Philip Russo, an infection prevention expert from Monash University.

The data was initially leaked online by an emergency doctor. The Age has independently verified that the information came from an official health department document.

Many hospitals across Victoria have begun winding back pandemic restrictions in recent weeks, including disbanding COVID wards and dropping mask mandates for staff and visitors.

Prof Marc Tennant AM
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Aged care staff cases rapidly rising across the nation. A measure of COVID ingress into aged care (and now also a good indicator in cases in the general community)

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9:02 AM · Sep 30, 2023

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Queensland’s Hervey Bay Hospital introduces mask mandate amid rising COVID cases.

"All staff, patients and visitors of Hervey Bay Hospital are required to wear masks as of 6pm on Thursday."

#COVID19QLD #maskmandate @qldhealth @ShannonFentiman @auscovid19

Source: https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-w ... c-12264039
A mask mandate has been re-introduced at a Queensland hospital.
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Queensland’s Hervey Bay Hospital introduces mask mandate amid rising COVID cases
By Warren Barnsley
Oct 20, 2023, 12:24 · · 8 · 1

As parts of the country start shutting down in an effort to curb virus spread, Trump announces the FDA will fast-track approval of unproven coronavirus treatments, including chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine.

"The nice part is, it's been around for a long time, so we know that if it -- if things don't go as planned, it's not going to kill anybody," Trump says at a task force briefing.

Chinese scientists are experimenting with a virus related to Covid-19 that has a 100 per cent kill streak in “humanised” mice.

The deadly SARS-CoV-2-related pangolin coronavirus— known as GX_P2V — attacked the brains of mice that were engineered to reflect similar genetic makeup to people, according to a study shared last week out of Beijing.

Francois Balloux, an epidemiology expert at the University College London’s Genetics Institute, slammed the research as “terrible” and “scientifically totally pointless.”

“I can see nothing of vague interest that could be learned from force-infecting a weird breed of humanised mice with a random virus. Conversely, I could see how such stuff might go wrong,” the professor wrote on X.

“The preprint does not specify the biosafety level and biosafety precautions used for the research,” he continued.

“The absence of this information raises the concerning possibility that part or all of this research, like the research in Wuhan in 2016-2019 that likely caused the Covid-19 pandemic, recklessly was performed without the minimal biosafety containment and practices essential for research with a potential pandemic pathogens.”

Professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Ruger’s University Richard H. Ebright backed up Balloux’s concerns with a simple: “concur.”

Dr Gennadi Glinsky, a retired professor of medicine at Stanford, wrote: “This madness must be stopped before too late.”