'Flabbergasted': Melbourne doctor with coronavirus symptoms continued seeing patients

The Guardian ^ | Mar 6, 2020 | Merran Hitchick

[DannyTN]

Victorian health authorities are trying to contact about 70 patients of a Melbourne doctor who has developed coronavirus after returning from the US

The doctor is the state’s 11th case of the novel coronavirus and the state health minister, Jenny Mikakos, says he attended work and treated patients after her was symptomatic.

Coronavirus latest updates: race to trace dozens of patients of sick doctor in Australia Read more “I have to say I am flabbergasted that a doctor that has flulike symptoms has presented to work,” Mikakos said.

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[DannyTN]

Japan had a doctor do this too.

[Bonemaker]

Share the wealth...misery loves company.

[null and void]

1. Get Corona virus.
2. Infect more people.
3. Profit!

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[hal ogen]

The quack is an idiot. What an integrity free nitwit.

[null and void]

This morning we broke 100,000 cases world wide.

We just broke 102,000.

[Freedom56v2]

Wow! :(

[mewzilla]

Per WHO, FWIW...

In 2017, it was estimated that 435 000 deaths due to malaria had occurred globally, of which 403 000 deaths (approximately 93%) were in the WHO African Region. Almost 80% of all deaths in 2017 occurred in 17 countries in the WHO African Region and India.

[null and void]

It’s amazing the dividends banning DDT has brought...</sarc>

[DoughtyOne]

COVID-19 Spreadsheet using JHU data

File XLSX

Not able to provide the XLS file right now.

[TigersEye]

It sounds like the primary correlation there is WHO regions.

Stay out of WHO regions!

[a fool in paradise]

Corona? He wanted Fosters.

[familyop]

Looks like it’s a very deceptive disease because of the initially mild symptoms in some. There’s really no way for such people to distinguish between the new virus and any one of many of the older viruses.

[Bommer]

Time for bullet in the head treatment.

[TigerClaws]

There was a couple on one of the death cruises who said in a TV interview that they lied to Japanese officials and told them they had tested negative. They hadn’t, in fact, gotten their results yet.

No limit to the amount of selfishness of people.

North Korea executed a man for going to a public bath after having stymptoms. Not a bad policy.

[trebb]

add them to the current Flu season and we still have a mild Flu season...not even a drop in the bucket.

[null and void]

I guess that makes it A-OK, he only thought he was spreading the seasonal flu.

May your doctor be so considerate.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

If the WuFlu he certainly passed on to some of his patients kills one of them, would it be OK to hang him in public, or does Oz even have a death penalty?

[Fred Nerks]

The AMA’s Dr Bartone said he has done nothing wrong.

“The doctor acted within all the available guidelines and information from the authorities and did make an informed decision, made a decision in a good faith to attend work and it was really quite unhelpful what the Minister said yesterday,” he said.

It has now emerged the doctor tested himself.

Dr Bartone added that medical staff are becoming “disillusioned and disappointed over the situation” amid criticism over a lack of masks, which the government says are now on their way.

“They have nothing but their patients’ best interests at heart. They are making decisions in good faith to carry out their duties,” he said.

[trebb]

Too funny - and sad that you prefer the sensationalism instead of reality.

[GOPJ]

“Collect underpants”, “?”, “Profit”