The Medical Journal of Australia • Vol 214 • No 3
A hospital‐wide response to multiple outbreaks of <scp>COVID</scp> ‐19 in health care workers: lessons learned from the field
November 2020 • Kirsty Buising, Deborah A. Williamson, Benjamin Cowie, Jennifer H MacLachlan, Elizabeth Orr, Christopher MacIsaac, Eloise Williams, Katherine Bond, S…
The response to the largest institutional outbreak of COVID-19 in health care workers in Australia to date needed to be multidimensional In many countries, high rates of health care workers with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been associated with inadequate personal protective equipment (PPE), exposure to large numbers of patients with COVID-19, worker fatigue, and limited access to diagnostic testing.1-3 In Australia, during the initial phase of the epidemic, infections in health care workers were large…