Topic - aged care
Flu – and coronavirus – through to October?
Mar 17 2020
1 min read
The Weekly Source

How long will our virus journey be? The above graph courtesy of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance Scheme (NNDSS) says we have the traditional flu season about to kick off and it can easily extend to October.

Stocks of PPEs, personal protection equipment in aged care homes, were ordered and delivered several months ago for a normal ‘flu season’ and unlikely to last this year’s extraordinary load.

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