Holiday Inn outbreak exposes bad advice of Govt’s infection control experts: AMA
'We’re pretty close to the point of needing to disband them,' says Dr Omar Khorshid
The 15 members of the Federal Government’s expert infection control committee are again under fire following the Holiday Inn COVID-19 outbreak in Melbourne.
The virus spread from a family of returned travellers to at least five other people, including three workers in the quarantine hotel wearing surgical masks and eye protection.
The “working hypothesis” was that a resident of one room had used a nebuliser, aerosolising virus particles, according to Victoria’s chief health officer Professor Brett Sutton.
None of the workers were given N95/P2 respirators which is in line with the recommendations of the government’s Infection Control Expert Group (ICEG).
