It’s low-cost and widely available and yet dexamethasone is the drug that has researchers' tongues wagging after a UK trial showed it reduced deaths among COVID-19 patients. In trial results that scientists called a “major breakthrough”, a low dose of ...
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The Coronavirus Podcast Episode 10
What do we do if we can't find a vaccine for COVID-19? In episode 10 of the Coronavirus Podcast host Conor Burke is joined by Tammy Hoffman, professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Bond University, to discuss non-clinical interventions and what ...
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This weeks' episode features a nurse with direct experience treating COVID-19 patients. Ashleigh Peters graduated at the end of 2018 and has been working at Westmead Hospital for nearly a year. She worked for six months in ED before changing ...
More »How did Hong Kong and South Korea record no coronavirus deaths in aged care?
There have been no residential aged care deaths due to COVID-19 in either South Korea or Hong Kong, despite both regions having thousands of positive cases. Experts told British MPs and members of the Commons Health and Social Care Committee ...
More »Inside the Southern Hemisphere’s first medically supervised injecting centre
“It's not about being cured. It's about respecting life.”
More »Government and sector come together to settle lockdown dispute
The beef between the aged care sector and the government over restrictive measures in the sector looks to have been settled, with the announcement of a draft code of conduct on visitation rights as well as a $205 million bump ...
More »What happens if nurses stop showing up to work?
What happens if this pandemic gets worse? What if it got so bad that healthcare workers, doctors and nurses all walked off the job? While the Australian healthcare system has been stretched by the COVID-19 crisis, it has yet to ...
More »If you love health workers and you know it clap your hands: UK ‘Clap for our Carers’ to show appreciation
Health workers are being embraced in different ways around the globe as they put their lives on the line at a time when most of us are safely locking down and isolating. We have seen images of volunteers bringing food ...
More »COVID-19: How it happened
We take a look at how the global pandemic began, how it spread, and how countries responded. The COVID-19 pandemic came to light on 31 December 2019 with an alert to the WHO China office, and the speed with which ...
More »Peak body for emergency medicine releases new COVID-19 guidelines
“There is no patient emergency more important than the safety of our healthcare workforce.” This is the first principle of a new, 88-page set of guidelines for emergency clinicians on the COVID-19 pandemic frontlines, released by the Australasian College for ...
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