{"id":1591,"date":"2020-08-31T13:37:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T03:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2020-08-31T13:57:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T03:57:30","slug":"vic-resolving-unreported-deaths-in-aged-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/vic-resolving-unreported-deaths-in-aged-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Vic &#8216;Resolving&#8217; Unreported Deaths in Aged Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SkyNewsAustralia\"><\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCO0akufu9MOzyz3nvGIXAAw\" target=\"_blank\">Sky News Australia<\/a> &#8211; Aug 31, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vic &#039;resolving&#039; unreported deaths in aged care\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WotLngur9Oc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Victoria Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has flagged more coronavirus deaths previously not included in Victoria\u2019s daily death toll may soon be revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state reported 41 new deaths on Monday however only eight were recorded in the past 24 hours with the remaining 33 taking place in the weeks leading up to Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Sutton said the deaths stretched back to late July and came from a number of aged care facilities in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is a reconciliation that we&#8217;ve needed to go through,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are Commonwealth reporting obligations, state reporting processes, and we need to reconcile those cases, so that whatever the Victorian Aged Care Response Centre is reporting is absolutely consistent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Commonwealth has strengthened the reporting obligations in early August based on a need to have absolutely definitive data on deaths that have occurred in residence have coronavirus, and so in early August, there was a mandatory reporting to the Commonwealth that also goes to VA IRC on that basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think most of these numbers are resolved. I think there will be some facilities that may still have a few cases to be reported through to the VARC, but I don&#8217;t expect a number anywhere near, close to 41 to occur again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCO0akufu9MOzyz3nvGIXAAw\" target=\"_blank\">Sky News Australia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky News Australia &#8211; Aug 31, 2020 Victoria Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has flagged more coronavirus deaths previously not included in Victoria\u2019s daily death toll may soon be revealed. The state reported 41 new deaths on Monday however only eight were recorded in the past 24 hours with the remaining 33 taking place in&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/vic-resolving-unreported-deaths-in-aged-care\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vic &#8216;Resolving&#8217; Unreported Deaths in Aged Care<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[508,239,226,487,37],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/brett-sutton-resolving-death-numbers.jpg?fit=786%2C441&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}