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Vaccines now mandated for workers treating COVID patients – Brisbane Times
Health workers must have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine before treating COVID-19 positive patients after two separate clusters were linked…
Dr Young said she did not blame the hospital for putting unvaccinated health workers into COVID-19 wards against her advice.
They have done their best but as youve heard, the numbers of cases has just ramped up at the same time as were trying to vaccinate people.
She said the surge of COVID-19-positive patients in Queensland hospitals has meant more staff were needed in those wards, meaning vaccination targets had expanded.
Initially the state wanted to vaccinate 37,000 workers dealing with COVID-positive…
