Professor Brett Mitchell is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Newcastle. He is an expert in infection control, leading hospital and State programs. He has clinical experience in hospitals in Australia, overseas and public health. Brett is the Editor-in-Chief of Infection, Disease and Health, an international peer reviewed journal. Professor Mitchell is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Infection Prevention and Control and a Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing. Brett has over 150 peer reviewed journal and conference presentations. He was the Chair of an NHMRC committee responsible for the national infection prevention and control guidelines for healthcare facilities and has sat on national committees with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. His research interests include health services research, environmental cleaning, urinary tract infections, pneumonia and surveillance of infections.
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Should Gladys cruel Christmas?
22 December 2020
NSW
premier Gladys Berejiklian has to make a huge decision on Wednesday that could
result in country’s biggest and most important economy in the national economy to
be shut down. This would cancel Christmas for many, with 10 at a gathering
already eating into the potential joy on Christmas Day.
Her state recorded 15 new cases in the 24 hours to 8pm Sunday and all these came out of Avalon. That was half the number reported the day before. The state is at 83 infections after 38,000 tests. The Premier and all of us have to be happy with that! The Thai Rock Café in mid-July was worse. It had 114 infections and life didn’t go into a statewide lockdown. But then again, the state and the country weren’t going into the madness and merriment of Christmas, where the ‘hanging out’ factor goes into “it’s steroids time!”