GPs sidelined in Cedar Meats abattoir COVID-19 outbreak: inquiry
The parliamentary investigation also raised concerns about the supply of PPE to general practice staff
GPs were left in the dark about the scale of the COVID-19 outbreak at the Cedar Meats abattoir, even as suspected cases began arriving in their practices seeking tests, a parliamentary inquiry has found.
Back in April and May, the Melbourne facility was linked to 111 coronavirus cases among workers and their close contacts.
But an inquiry into the Victoria’s troubled response to COVID-19 has been told that local GPs were not being adequately briefed about potential clusters.
“With Cedar Meats, many practitioners were aware of the outbreak before that was made public, largely because many workers were presenting [to them] seeking testing,” the AMA Victoria President, Professor Julian Rait, told the inquiry.
