VIC HQ N95 Masks - Wed Feb 10 - ABC interview
1/6 DCHO: “...we have a thing called the IPC steering committee and it has a number of experts on the board from the community, community experts, as well as experts from other hospitals and experts from within the department and that steering committee meets regularly...”
2/6 “...and more regularly when there are recent things to discuss, so normally we meet every month, but we met last week and we met again today and at the meeting today a decision was made that N95 masks, which were already being used in the program...but not by everyone...”
3/6
@Raf_Epstein:
“...we haven’t had advice that everyone should be wearing them...now, finally today - everyone should be wearing them... you’re too slow to adopt things that you end up doing anyway”
DCHO:
“or could you say we’re adopting them when it’s appropriate to do so?”
@Raf_Epstein:
“...we haven’t had advice that everyone should be wearing them...now, finally today - everyone should be wearing them... you’re too slow to adopt things that you end up doing anyway”
DCHO:
“or could you say we’re adopting them when it’s appropriate to do so?”
4/6
@Raf_Epstein
“it’s too late isn’t it after you’ve done it?”
DCHO
“no, absolutely not...saying that is making the assumption that if people were wearing N95 masks they wouldn’t have been infected the way they are now, and we can’t say that that is the case....”
@Raf_Epstein
“it’s too late isn’t it after you’ve done it?”
DCHO
“no, absolutely not...saying that is making the assumption that if people were wearing N95 masks they wouldn’t have been infected the way they are now, and we can’t say that that is the case....”
5/6 “We don’t actually know how the person at the Grand Hyatt was infected, unfortunately we haven’t been able to make that link, although we know the 2 individuals involved but we don’t know how the infection passed from one to the other”
6/6
@Raf_Epstein
“The Grand Hyatt is the tennis quarantine worker?”
DCHO
“That’s right. So we don’t know how that made that leap between the person who was infected and in their room and the worker who was on that floor but not very close and how that happened “
@Raf_Epstein
“The Grand Hyatt is the tennis quarantine worker?”
DCHO
“That’s right. So we don’t know how that made that leap between the person who was infected and in their room and the worker who was on that floor but not very close and how that happened “
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