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Why didn’t others get hotel coronavirus?

It’s the big question around Australia’s recent infections of workers who acquired coronavirus from hotel quarantine: why did they not pass it on to anyone else, despite all being infected with the… more
Distance Education During Quarantine And Lockdown Due To Covid-19 Pandemic. Teacher Giving Online School Lesson

Coronavirus restrictions stopped the spread of some illnesses, but gastro is…

Professor Raina MacIntyre from the University of New South Wales' Kirby Institute said rates of respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and influenza dropped dramatically with measures like masks and… more
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The conversation - Australia must vaccinate 200,000 adults a day to meet…

The federal government’s COVID vaccine rollout is due to start in late February with a target of vaccinating all Australian adults by October. Vaccinating some 20 million adult Australians with two… more
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UNSW biosecurity researchers develop intelligence program that ‘could have…

UNSW’s head of biosecurity research, Raina MacIntyre, has spearheaded an intelligence program called Epiwatch that she is confident could have detected COVID-19 in China in mid-November 2019 – one… more
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Coronavirus: No evidence: epidemiologist questions WHO ruling out Wuhan lab as…

Leading epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre has questioned why a World Health Organisation delegation that investigated the origins of COVID-19 ruled out the theory that the virus had escaped from a… more
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UNSW biosecurity researchers develop intelligence program that ‘could have…

Researchers from the University of NSW have developed a biosecurity program they say could have prevented COVID-19 and believe it will be instrumental in thwarting future pandemics. UNSW’s head of… more