Victoria: Hundreds of patients died after catching COVID in Victorian hospitals, new data shows
Almost 1 in 10 patients who caught COVID in hospital died.
Documents obtained by ABC News under Freedom of Information laws reveal at least 6,212 patients caught COVID in hospital in 24 months — 3,890 in 2022 and 2,322 in 2023. Of those, 586 died — almost 6 per week, on average — with men dying at a higher rate than women (11 per cent vs 8 per cent).
At first, when I glanced at, "Hundreds of patients died after catching COVID in Victorian hospitals," I thought, "Whaaaaat? COVID wasn't around in the Victorian era!?" Oops.
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