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"When COVID-19 is caught in hospital, the risk doesn’t end with infection" A new study found patients who caught COVID-19 in hospital were more likely to die within 30 days than those infected in the community. Outcomes improved over time, but hospital-acquired COVID still carried a higher risk.

When COVID-19 is caught in hospital, the risk doesn't end with infection - Doherty Institute

A new study led by VICNISS, published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, found that hospitalised patients who acquired COVID-19 in hospital were more likely to die within 30 days than patients whose infection was acquired in the community.

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"POTS - the condition leaving Australians bedridden that doctors say medicine has missed." "For years, many patients with dizziness, exhaustion and racing heartbeats were told it was anxiety. Doctors now say a little-known post-COVID condition is emerging as a major health challenge in Australia"

An article from The Daily Telegraph website, dated June 11, 2026, features the headline: "POTS - the condition leaving Australians bedridden that doctors say medicine has missed." The subheading notes that patients' symptoms like dizziness, exhaustion, and racing hearts were long dismissed as anxiety, but doctors now recognize POTS as a fast-growing post-Covid health challenge.
The piece is written by Danielle Gusmaroli. Below the text is a photograph of a young woman with long, wavy brown hair, wearing a leopard-print top, posing outdoors with a sprawling residential valley and hills in the background. The caption under the image states, "POTS is a crippling condition that impacts almost one million Australians."

And I'm still trying to follow whether those putting forth this argument believe this means N95s should be recommended (Of course they should - OMFG. Lack of availability, comfort, etc are bulls**t reasons. The science is the science. The rest is politics. Yes, FFS, we should fly planefuls to DRC)

We are at the: "I concede this disease causes humans to generate infectious aerosols, which infect other people who breathe them IN, but no infectious aerosols are breathed OUT by an infected patient" stage of the "I effed up SARS2 being airborne but still need to cover my a**" stage of the debate

I have heard stories where the NHS actively forbade staff from wearing suitable respirators. So yes, fear of standing out is one issue. But also employers making it impossible to protect yourself is another huge one.

I wish I'd understood this earlier: What if the biggest barrier to wearing an N95 in healthcare isn't comfort, cost, or science... ...but fear? Fear of being labelled. Fear of being ostracised. Fear of jeopardising your career.

I wish I'd understood this earlier: What if the biggest barrier to wearing an N95 in healthcare isn't comfort, cost, or science... ...but fear? Fear of being labelled. Fear of being ostracised. Fear of jeopardising your career.

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So wishing you’d work in NZ, the anaesthesiologist was the only one super dismissive of my precautions (nearly to the point of aggression, definitely past disdain). The environment just about met those conditions but only due to my requests, it wasn’t standard :(