Our healthcare workers getting infected with Covid
The Briefing27 Elo 2020

Our healthcare workers getting infected with Covid

Are we doing enough to protect our healthcare workers from getting Covid at work? To look after those who look after us? Nurses, doctors and allied health professionals are ending up in intensive care because of what they say is inadequate infection control.

2700 workers have tested positive since the beginning of the pandemic with more than 100 hospitalised and sadly one death. So are we doing enough to protect our health workers while they’re on the job? And how can we expect them to look after us, when we can’t first, keep them safe at work?

On today’s episode we speak with Emily Morris, an Emergency Department nurse at The Royal Melbourne Hospital where she works with Covid patients every day, and contracted Covid herself last month. We’re also joined by Dr Michelle Ananda-Raja, a consulting physician in infectious diseases who has spoken to more than 400 Victorian health workers about their experiences.

In today's news headlines:

  • Christchurch shooter sentenced to life in prison without parole
  • China lashes Australia again over federal bill to kill problematic state, local agreements with foreign powers
  • 20,000 shifts filled: chief nurse reveals the impact of Victoria’s second wave on aged care
  • On National Equal Pay Day, experts warn pandemic will make gender pay gap worse

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