COVID-19 is about nine months old, we think, and with each passing month we learn more about what this new coronavirus does to the body. Long COVID is a term being used for one set of symptoms researchers are observing ...
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COVID-19: How to support visits for next-of-kin at end of life
To date, many Australians who have died from COVID-19 have died alone and many others have missed out on visiting dying loved ones, but two Deakin University experts say it doesn’t have to be this way. Writing for The Conversation, ...
More »QLD nurse contracts coronavirus as 220 colleagues go into quarantine, NSW works to contain hospital outbreaks
A 32-year-old nurse at Ipswich hospital in Queensland has tested positive for COVID-19 as 220 staff at the hospital have gone into precautionary quarantine. The nurse is one of two new positive cases in the state announced on Sunday, and Ipswich hospital has moved all appointments elsewhere whilst only the emergency department remains open. Both new cases are linked to the youth detention cluster ...
More »Aged care minister censured: What the pollies had to say
The Senate on Thursday censured Minister for Aged Care Richard Colbeck for failing to recall “the most basic and tragic facts” about aged care deaths during the pandemic – a move Prime Minister Scott Morrison has shrugged off. In August, ...
More »PM details $1.7b deal for COVID-19 vaccines
Australians will get free access to a COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 under a $1.7 billion supply and production agreement between government and pharmaceutical companies. Under the agreement, the University of Oxford-AstraZeneca and the University of Queensland-CSL will provide more than ...
More »The Coronavirus Podcast: the history of pandemics
COVID-19 is not the first time that a pandemic has ravaged a society and starting with the first recorded pandemic in Athens, during the Peloponnesian War, nearly every generation has had to deal with a deadly disease. Professor Peter Curson ...
More »COVID-19 has shone a light on the ‘pandemic of human rights abuses’ that pregnant women face
Pregnant women have faced significant obstacles over the last eight months. On top of the challenges expectant mothers usually experience they have the added stress of a once-in-a-generation pandemic. Add to the mix a consistent stream of inconsistencies nationwide over ...
More »Girl refused bed before she died from flu
A toddler who had become "floppy and blue" and was rushed to a Sydney hospital was originally refused a bed by two separate nurses, an inquest has heard. Less than 24-hours after Caitlin Cruz arrived at Westmead Children's Hospital in ...
More »Albo comes out for minimum staff levels, union pushing Medicare rise to fund aged care
In a departure from the policies taken to the last federal election, Labor leader Anthony Albanese has come out in favour of minimum staffing levels in aged care. Speaking to the National Press Club, Albanese decried the state of ...
More »Oxford, Russian, homegrown: regardless of the vaccine, Australia ‘needs a distribution plan’
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) wants Australia to quickly develop a national plan to distribute COVID-19 vaccination. AMA president Dr Omar Khorshid said it was pleasing to see that efforts of the medical and scientific community to fast track a ...
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