World News – UA – More and more COVID-19 bombs in Melbourne emerge – MacroBusiness

Other bombs relating to the latest COVID-19 outbreak have emerged, which places another big question mark over how the Andrews State Government is handling the issue

Firstly, Fairfax released the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) letter from the family at the center of the northern suburbs outbreak where a 5-year-old boy attended school while he was contagious, thereby spreading the virus to others in the community, resulted in the quarantine of around 1,000 potential Melburnian contacts and prevented the draconian lockdowns from ending yesterday

According to this letter from DHHS, the family were allowed to leave their home two days before the fifth-grader involuntarily attended school while he was contagious:

On October 17, the department released the mother, father and two other children of the family and provided them with a certificate so that they could go to school and work…

The family said during conversations on Oct. 17 that health officials had not discussed the boy’s situation, so the family assumed the young boy had not received a discharge certificate because ‘he had not tested positive for the virus…

« Due to the phone call and email that did not mention [the boy, we] did not take him for testing, » said the family member. « Considering they called the 17, and did not mention any tests from day 11, and cut off all communication with my [family] from that day, [we] assumed it was in the clear « 

Family members said that during this time, department agents contradicted each other, some saying family members should be tested on day 11, others that they should be tested immediately, or only when they are symptomatic

« The inability of DHHS to accept any kind of responsibility has caused my family / community more stress and frustration than the current COVID-19, » said the family member

« I would also like to mention that all but one of my family members speak and understand English fluently, my father being a university student in Melbourne many years ago. »

But wait, it’s getting worse This family contracted the virus from a member of the household who worked as a nurse at Box Hill Public Hospital This nurse contracted the virus from a patient, then worked in COVID wards and not COVID, which led to other infections:

The government confirmed on Sunday evening that a cluster at the East Melbourne Hospital was triggered after a patient from the COVID department infected two staff, one of whom was working while he was infectious (but before symptoms appeared) in another ward , transmission of the virus to another staff member and patient

On Sunday, the government confirmed that the staff member who transferred the virus between wards was also the index case of the northern suburbs cluster…

UNSW epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre said the outbreak had highlighted a lack of appropriate infection control policies and guidelines for health workers, including mandatory N95 masks tested

She listed a range of countries, including China, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong, where she said there had been « virtually no infection of health workers » due to strict precautionary protocols

Poor infection control in hospitals, spreading virus to community DHHS makes serious contact tracing errors All while Melburnians are locked up for 16 consecutive weeks

Compare that with Sydney They’ve accommodated over 60,000 international arrivals through the hotel’s quarantine, have relatively few restrictions, have people taking reasonable precautions and very few viruses, and what a virus there is quickly found and eradicated

What hope does Victoria have of preventing future epidemics if the government and the public health system fail to even understand the basics?

Not just boxhill Was in Monash ER on budget night and their screening was terrible People walk around without masks and no security and ignorant staff Seemed like a free for all and couldn’t wait to get out of there Time bomb

If Covid hasn’t shown anything else, it’s how poorly managed Victoria is at all levels of government and civil service
Victoria makes Kazakstan look good!

My family member is the one who caught it from the Box Hill nurse Calling them inept is putting it lightly

Why does a nurse work in the Covid and non-Covid departments? Do you think that if you worked in 1, you wouldn’t work in the other?

Exactly The story we were originally told was that it was an agency Other hospitals put their nurses to work 12 hour shifts so they didn’t have agency staff who comes and goes from old nursing homes, etc.

It also emerged that in the Dan Andrews wing of Melbourne Public Hospital, knives used to cut chicken in the canteen were being used to perform surgery on elderly patients without being washed

Police have custody of cell phone containing photographic evidence of alleged hygiene violation Contact tracers used the phone to identify 5 serious safety breaches where the owner allegedly exceeded the speed limit of 3 km / h between the hospital and the police station

It’s amazing If your infection prevention protocols in hospitals fail, what’s the point of listening to these bozos?

Now you know why we really needed such tight lockdowns
We need to reduce hospitalizations to zero to prevent nurses from infecting everyone

I have already described my encounters with DHHS when my family and I had COVID
I have no doubt what this family is saying is true

As I told someone else this morning who told me to trust DHHS – I’d rather trust Bernie Madoff

Apparently, hospitals in Melbourne sterilize their surgical instruments with raw sewage, then funnel the outlet of the drains into their public fountains You heard it here the first time

Wow, looks like someone else also finished this 30 minute AMA Accredited Advanced Infection Control Seminar at Box Hill TAFE!

I find it even more frightening that the infected nurse has no idea how the COVID-19 infection works and the incubation period

Or who has not considered it necessary to have their child tested, after the other two children have already been identified as positive Then sends him back to school without knowing whether he has the virus or not

Andrews therefore accuses the Victorian people and the great immigrant families of language problems when in reality it is a monumental incompetence of the government, there must be some responsibility

Coronavirus, Department of Health and Human Services, Melbourne