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   Queensland’s chief health officer, Dr Jeannette Young, says   
   death threats and extreme trolling have taken an “enormous   
   toll”, with a permanent police escort now assigned to the   
   officer.   
      
   The state’s leadership, including Young, have come under intense   
   scrutiny in recent days over Queensland’s hardline approach to   
   border control, which has prevented multiple family members from   
   attending loved one’s funerals.   
      
   The Queensland AMA president, Chris Perry, told the Today show   
   on Monday that Young had been receiving death threats. He said   
   she now required police guards at her home and officers “who go   
   with her everywhere” for her safety.   
      
   “It has been quite stressful and it hasn’t been helped by   
   cowardly people threatening to take the life of a woman,” he   
   said.   
      
   “It has been quite toxic.”   
      
   On Monday, Young confirmed the intense online trolling has been   
   extremely difficult to deal with.   
      
   “But then, this [pandemic] has taken an enormous toll on nearly   
   every single person in our community,” she said.   
      
   “We can’t see a clear end to this. So, we’re going to all have   
   to work this through together and work out how we can manage   
   this as well as go forward.”   
      
   Young said the government’s support had helped her feel “much,   
   much safer” while doing her job.   
      
   The state’s Liberal opposition and the federal government have   
   been extremely critical of the Queensland government’s approach   
   to border controls, which has only limited exemptions for   
   compassionate reasons from NSW, Victoria and the ACT.   
      
   On Thursday, the prime minister suggested the country could be   
   “losing its humanity” during the pandemic while referencing the   
   case of 26-year-old resident Sarah Caisip, who was barred from   
   attending her father’s funeral last week.   
      
   Queensland’s health minister, Steven Miles, criticised Scott   
   Morrison on Monday for getting involved in Caisip’s case after   
   another family member accused the prime minister of using the   
   matter to “advance his political agenda”.   
      
   “We’ve learnt in recent days the prime minister made a mistake   
   talking about a couple of individual cases recently and was left   
   with egg on his face when the facts of those cases came out,” he   
   said.   
      
   Miles refused to answer questions at Monday’s press conference   
   about other families struggling to get into the state to   
   farewell dying relatives.   
      
   “I never have and never will address individual cases … I know   
   that the chief health officer and her team go through [all   
   exemption applications] very, very carefully, and wherever they   
   can they are as compassionate as they possibly can be, while   
   also ensuring Queenslanders are kept safe,” he said.   
      
   Perry told the Today show Young had been working from 5am to   
   10pm every day in order to get through hundreds of applications   
   for border control exemptions, and has now had to enlist   
   additional help.   
      
   “It was quite hard work. She now has eight or 10 people who can   
   help her do that,” he said.   
      
   Queensland reported no new cases of Covid-19 on Monday.   
      
   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-   
   news/2020/sep/14/queenslands-chief-health-officer-given-police-   
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