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Coronavirus outbreak shuts down NSW Parliament

The New South Wales Government is resisting calls to lockdown after the State recorded 11 new coronavirus infections overnight. Authorities say they've traced the source of all but one of the new… more
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Modelling vaccination plans; development of preterm babies; bronchiolitis in…

Modelling COVID vaccination targets to achieve pandemic prevention and control in Australia; the developmental outcomes of preterm babies is becoming clear; a study on who has followed over 4000 of… more
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Life matters podcast: Right now, in Australia, vaccine alone can't save us…

Guest: Professor Raina MacIntyre, Head of the Biosecurity Research Program at the Kirby Institute at UNSW Medicine and author of a new paper published in the journal Vaccine on a hypothetical COVID… more
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Evaluating risk and the travel bubble

Australia's first two-way international bubble starts today with New Zealand, but when is the time to open up to other countries? And what do we risk losing by keeping international borders closed?… more
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Concerns raised that quarantine hotels are being used for private guests

Epidemiologists are again calling on Australia's Governments to agree on and stick to uniform infection control quarantine standards to protect the nation. More Information FEATURED: Michael… more
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Vaccines need to be studied to assess effectiveness against new variants of the…

The American pharmaceutical company Novavax has released results about the efficacy of its vaccine - claiming it's 95 per cent effective against the original version of Covid-19. But it's less… more