Here’s the proof we need. Many more health workers than we ever thought are catching COVID-19 on the job

Yesterday, the Victorian government released much-anticipated figures showing the proportion of the state’s health-care workers who caught COVID-19 at work. Victoria’s chief medical officer Andrew Wilson said yesterday that 70-80% of health workers testing positive to COVID-19 were infected at work. That’s compared with 22% in the first wave. That figure, which equates to at least 1,600 people infected in the ...