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Doctors 'bullied' by hospital administration for asking to wear masks

Professor MacIntyre said hospitals tended to downplay the role of the workplace in COVID-19 infections among nurses and doctors, who were often deemed to have contracted the SARS-CoV-2 virus "on the bus, or at home".

The Victorian health department said about 17 per cent of COVID-19 infections among the state's healthcare workers were deemed to have been acquired at work.

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