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The AFR’s Mark Ludlow asks the salient question today: “How the hell did Queensland Health let doctors and nurses who hadn’t been vaccinated against the coronavirus treat active COVID-19 patients?”
This comes after revelations that the state’s new cluster was seeded by two unvaccinated healthcare workers – a doctor and a nurse – who treated COVID-infected patients at Prince Alfred Hospital in South Brisbane.
The nurse then travelled into Byron Bay in Northern NSW where she spread the virus to others via a bachelorette party party, including a Gold Coast tradie working as a stripper.
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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.