The pandemic stretched our healthcare system to breaking point, but it also proved how new and positive models of screening and care can quickly be created in adversity.
At this stage it’s hard to know for sure why Melbourne’s COVID numbers are higher, but it’s likely that climate plays a role.
The new phase of the pandemic will come with a period of uncertainty as we adjust to “living with the virus” and a see-sawing of some restrictions.
The next months are going to remain difficult. But I’m still hopeful about the future. There will come a point when enough people are vaccinated that case numbers begin to decrease.
We can do more in pursuing a zero-waste strategy in relation to sought-after COVID-19 vaccines.
Unless vaccination rates pick up, Victoria’s snap five-day lockdown is unlikely to be enough to get on top of the infectious Delta variant.
How do we measure if people are following the health orders, and whether they’re having any effect?
When he volunteered to become one of the public faces of Victoria’s COVID-19 health response, Professor Allen Cheng’s life changed course dramatically – and accelerated.
A first-of-its-kind study is examining university students' experience navigating the pandemic, and learning under lockdown.
A behind-the-scenes look at the two vaccine candidates being developed by Monash University and the Doherty Institute.
There are a few things we should do in Victoria to ensure the number of people getting tested for COVID-19 remains high.
An extension of Victoria's state of emergency may well be justified – but there's no call for it to be for 12 months without returning to parliament to argue the case.
Takeaway coffee, yes; a stroll through Bunnings, no. The Victorian government has introduced tough stage four business restrictions to crack down on COVID-19 workplace transmission.
Absent other voices, public health emergency response measures risk being overly prescriptive and unnecessarily wide-reaching.
Victoria's shock 723 new infections could be the result of more testing, but people's behaviour is probably also to blame.
The COVID-19 death toll in aged-care homes is spiking. Protocols need to urgently be put in place to prevent infection, but there also needs to be detailed plans for when an outbreak occurs.
It's time to accept that moving in and out of various levels of restriction may just be a part of life as we know it in 2020, and likely 2021.
While we've so far successfully contained COVID-19, the modelling clearly shows now isn't the time to relax many of the restrictions.
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