Belgian hospitals forced into 'bad decision' of using doctors infected with COVID-19

COVID-positive doctors and nurses are continuing to work in Belgian hospitals as a fresh wave of the pandemic creates an "impossible" situation for the country's medical system.The head of the Belgian Association of Medical Unions says sending doctors home "would be worse"

The head of the Belgian Association of Medical Unions, Philippe Devos, said hospital staff infected with COVID-19 would only treat patients who were also infected with coronavirus, to limit the risk of spread. There has also been a lag in contact tracing, with COVID-19 sufferers being called nine days after infection, rendering it "useless"."The population stopped believing the Government and decided not to adhere to the measures," he said.

New daily infections in Belgium, where the European Union and NATO have their headquarters, hit a peak of more than 18,000 on October 20, almost a 10-fold rise from the high of the pandemic's spring wave. "We have a large amount of patients coming in every day and the nurses and doctors are getting sick too," he said."For example my hospital is an 800-bed hospital and we receive around 100 hospitalisations a day, so it's impossible to sustain such a speed."Why it could take 12 months to roll out a coronavirus vaccine in Australia

Victoria should be able to rebuild the economy in short time by selling our Covid 19 expertise overseas.

But at least they cured the flu, 98% reduction in in numbers and flu death.

Just reflecting on all the journalists who wrote column after column saying how we should look to Europe/UK as a model for how to ‘manage COVID’....

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