Denis - The COVID info guy - on Nostr: By Peter Vogel @psvbluemts I have obtained information about hospital-acquired ...
By Peter Vogel @psvbluemts
I have obtained information about hospital-acquired COVID-19 from Queensland Health. From Jan-22 to June-23 an average of 14 people caught C19 in hospital each day, and one of these died each day. The data only lists deaths in the hospital, we don't know how many died soon after discharge.
The Queensland AMA has written to the CHO "expressing members' concerns about rising COVID cases and inadequate infection controls within Queensland Health hospitals". They have now published the letter and the non-answer here: https://www.ama.com.au/qld/correspondence/CHOcovid
It does not address the doctors' concerns at all. It just says that each hospital should make their own rules, proportionate to the current risk.
In spite of the acknowledged current wave of COVID, here's an example of current guidance from a typical Qld hospital:
Visitors are welcome at Metro South Health facilities, and are asked to help keep patients safe by:
* practising hand hygiene
* staying home if you have any flu-like symptoms
* avoid visiting hospitals, aged care, or disability care centre while you have any cold or flu symptoms.
As well as being totally inadequate, point 3 seems to assume you'll ignore point 2.
The policy of leaving it to individuals to manage their own COVID-19 protection has now been extended to health care generally, resulting in vast disparity between the safety offered by different services. If I buy a fridge, I get to see a star rating and can have confidence that what I buy will have that level of energy efficiency. I can be confident the fridge meets safety standards and it won't electrocute me. If I enter a public building I don't have to check that the fire doors work. But if I am taken to hospital with a broken hip it's pot luck whether I'm exposed to avoidable airborne disease.
#COVID19 #Queensland npub1j92gv04tmkesqun87xgr4hnvzcwx0f49yyzl37pa7rew8uslugjs9j6nfj (npub1j92…6nfj)
Source: https://twitter.com/psvbluemts/status/1748486323563016435
I have obtained information about hospital-acquired COVID-19 from Queensland Health. From Jan-22 to June-23 an average of 14 people caught C19 in hospital each day, and one of these died each day. The data only lists deaths in the hospital, we don't know how many died soon after discharge.
The Queensland AMA has written to the CHO "expressing members' concerns about rising COVID cases and inadequate infection controls within Queensland Health hospitals". They have now published the letter and the non-answer here: https://www.ama.com.au/qld/correspondence/CHOcovid
It does not address the doctors' concerns at all. It just says that each hospital should make their own rules, proportionate to the current risk.
In spite of the acknowledged current wave of COVID, here's an example of current guidance from a typical Qld hospital:
Visitors are welcome at Metro South Health facilities, and are asked to help keep patients safe by:
* practising hand hygiene
* staying home if you have any flu-like symptoms
* avoid visiting hospitals, aged care, or disability care centre while you have any cold or flu symptoms.
As well as being totally inadequate, point 3 seems to assume you'll ignore point 2.
The policy of leaving it to individuals to manage their own COVID-19 protection has now been extended to health care generally, resulting in vast disparity between the safety offered by different services. If I buy a fridge, I get to see a star rating and can have confidence that what I buy will have that level of energy efficiency. I can be confident the fridge meets safety standards and it won't electrocute me. If I enter a public building I don't have to check that the fire doors work. But if I am taken to hospital with a broken hip it's pot luck whether I'm exposed to avoidable airborne disease.
#COVID19 #Queensland npub1j92gv04tmkesqun87xgr4hnvzcwx0f49yyzl37pa7rew8uslugjs9j6nfj (npub1j92…6nfj)
Source: https://twitter.com/psvbluemts/status/1748486323563016435