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NSW is the 'gold standard' for COVID-19 management according to the…

Leading infectious disease expert Raina MacIntyre from the Kirby Institute said while NSW was investing in its health system over the last 20 years, Victoria had been stripping its system bare. READ… more
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Critics of Victoria's contact tracing system misunderstand some key facts

Contact tracing is bread-and-butter public health for all health departments around Australia – they do it for meningococcal disease, TB, measles and many other infections. It is not rocket science… more
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PODCAST - Patient Zero: How We Got Here

This is the big one. The history we’re living. From Melbourne to Munich, Lombardy to Wuhan and all the way back again: this episode is about what happened when we faced those first coronavirus cases… more
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4 perspectives on how Victoria should exit stage 4 lockdown

Metropolitan Melbourne’s stage 4 lockdown is due to end on Sunday September 13. While there’s been much speculation around what will come next, we’ll have a clearer picture this Sunday, when… more
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Elimination, eradication, and the myth of 'living with' a certain…

UNSW Sydney experts explain the epidemiology definitions you should know before tuning in to another COVID-19 press update – and the ones Australia needs to work on. READ MORE
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Health staff want automatic WorkCover rights, as new mask concerns emerge

It had been earlier claimed that only a small percentage, up to 15 per cent, of Victoria’s infected healthcare workers had acquired the disease at work. This claim was rubbished by infectious… more