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Originally Posted by T3rminator
I didn't want to put a political spin on it. Deliberately left it open ended so that those who sought the answers could see for themselves. 100% of the deaths occurred in privately operated aged care under the federal jurisdiction. ZERO in public state operated aged care....ZERO. Chance or coincidence? It wasn't until Vic Gov sent in their staff, even though they were not authorised to do so, that things started to change.
Also have a look at the concentration of aged care services and beds per state, Victoria is by far the most vulnerable in this area. Hence why we can't gamble with the outbreaks. IMHO.
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I agree, No coincidence, a combination of skills and weight of numbers.
The state government manages its metro aged care through Monash/Northern/Eastern etc health services. Essentially hospital trained, so no accident there that they have better training in relation to infection control. They did a great job in protecting their patients.
The other thing is that they only manage just over six hundred beds in Metro Melbourne, and 4500 in the regions, so they dodged most of the outbreak.
On the private system which is under Federal control, I would be very interested to see how the not for profit sector (40% of beds) compared to the profit based, and see if there differences in the results of their infection control. Staff working multiple sites and employed casually is great for efficiency, but not stopping the spread of a virus.
This system has 40,000 plus metro patients so 75 times larger than the State controlled one. Combine that with lower skills and you end up with the result we got.