‘Mixed signals’: Doctors lash Victorian government over mask mandate rejection

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The Victorian government is under fire from medical experts for rejecting advice from the chief health officer to reinstate mask mandates. 7NEWS

recorded in Victoria on Tuesday and 757 people in hospital, concern is mounting about what the coming months will look like as highly infectious Omicron subvariants continue to run rampant.

“The chief health officer has provided his advice and I have accepted his advice, except that I have chosen not extend mandates for mask wearing in some of the settings that were recommended to me by the chief health officer,” she said. “What our business leaders know and what they experienced last January was that if they don’t take actions, they will lose their staff to COVID,” she said.Australian Medical Association Victoria President Roderick McRae called the move “courageous”, given “the government are advising all Victorians to take advice that’s disseminated and yet it appears the health minister is not responding to the strong advice ... from the medical community”.

 

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Wonder if this decision by DodgyDan to ignore the advice is because there’s a state election in November? springst SackDanAndrews

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