Queensland’s chief health officer recently revealed she lives with permanent police protection, raising questions about her treatment compared to male counterparts.
Australian National University Associate Professor Louise Stone said threats of violence towards medical professionals seemed to disproportionately impact women.
“What is different about this, is that we are trying so hard at the moment to protect the public. And the public is blaming us for doing it. And that’s really painful for us.”“It has taken an enormous toll on me, but then this has taken an enormous toll on nearly every single person," she recently told reporters.
In the United States, a review by KHN and the Associated Press identified at least 49 state and local public health officials have resigned, retired or were fired since April. An Emergency Medicine Specialist and medical team take a suspected COVID-19 patient in to the isolation ward in the Red zone of the Emergency Department.Dr Stone pointed to the fact that doctors are used to experiencing violence, but usually it's from an injured person or a family member.
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