COVID-19 UPDATES
Hotel quarantine causes 1 outbreak for every 204 infected travellers. It’s far from ‘fit...
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With Melbourne under lockdown for another seven days, the consequences of Australia’s inefficient and dangerous quarantine system continue.
This outbreak started with...
Australia to Start Manufacturing COVID-19 Vaccine as Rollout Plan is Revealed
With science labs all over the world busy developing their COVID-19 vaccines, a Queensland-made shot is being manufactured in the CSL's biologics facility in...
Here’s how the Victoria-NSW border closure will work – and how residents might be...
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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced the border between his state and NSW will close after 11:59pm on Tuesday to prevent the coronavirus...
What’s the difference between mutations, variants and strains? A guide to COVID terminology
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Living through a global pandemic over the past year has seen all of us expanding our vocabularies. We now understand terms like PPE,...
Children may need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 too. Here’s what we need to...
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An ideal COVID-19 vaccine would not only protect people from becoming ill, it would also stop the virus spreading through the population....
Even with a vaccine, we need to adjust our mindset to playing the COVID-19...
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Incredibly, a whole year has passed since the first emergence of COVID-19. What looked like a temporary inconvenience at first is turning...
When vaccinating 26 million Australians, expect a mistake or two. But we can minimise...
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It emerged two days ago that two aged-care residents in Brisbane were given an incorrect dose of the Pfizer vaccine — more than the...
Almost half a million tests, zero positives: how statistics shows we can be confident...
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How do you know that something you are looking for is not there? Looking for a needle in a...
Giving it away for free – why the performing arts risks making the same...
Sydney Chamber Opera’s Breaking Glass online performance
from Carriageworks. Daniel Boud
There’s a long-running adage about working for free in the performing arts. “The problem with...
COVID -19 HEALTH NEWS
I’m over 50 and hesitant about the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine. Should...
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It’s been well documented that there’s a significant level of vaccine hesitancy in the Australian community at the moment. This appears to be...
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