If COVID-19 becomes endemic, we’ll see multiple local outbreaks. Schools and businesses will close for days because too many people are sick. Local hospitals will be overwhelmed without warning.
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As lockdowns ease and those who are double-vaccinated gain extra freedoms, we’re likely to see a greater divide between the rich, who tend to have higher vaccination rates, and the poor.
In the summer of 1776, Boston offered smallpox inoculation to everyone and required those who declined to leave town or stay in their homes.
NSW and Victoria have taken different approaches on allowing unvaccinated people in places of worship, indicating the possibility for conflicting and confusing rules across the country.
If you feel like you’re having a medical emergency then you should still go to hospital. Expect longer waits and extra precautions.
Talking about your own experience can help normalise vaccination.
The decision not to get the COVID-19 vaccine comes from a complex set of psychological factors.
A growing body of research shows that nutrition, sleep, exercise and a host of other lifestyle choices can help optimize the immune system. But they are no substitute for life-saving vaccines.
Epidemics do not require the total eradication of the disease to end.
Experts at the Doherty Institute have updated their modelling to heighten caution around reopening for business and play.
Until vaccination rates in the country’s most vulnerable groups are much higher, elimination remains the best way to avoid repeating the mistakes of history.
At the beginning of 2020, most people hadn’t used the word ‘pandemic’ before. Now it’s time to understand the term ‘endemic’ and find out what to expect when COVID changes shape.
Labor still leads in two-party preferred polling, while the prime minister’s approval rating has slumped to its worst since the start of the pandemic.
An FDA panel has voted against recommending approval of a booster COVID-19 shot for the general population – disappointing some public health officials.
Many Aboriginal community controlled health services are already running urgent vaccination campaigns within their existing resources, but more needs to be done.
Ethics should be the first consideration on vaccine policy – ahead of purely medical advice and politics. But the considerations are many and they are complex.
If a vaccination certificate becomes mandatory for work and other activities, does that mean vaccination is effectively mandatory too?
Subtly shifting the crafting and delivery of public health messaging on COVID-19 vaccines could go a long way toward persuading many of the unvaccinated to get the shot.
Overlapping vaccine mandates at the federal, state and local levels aims to reduce the number of unvaccinated Americans.
An 80% adult vaccination rate corresponds to 64% of the overall population, leaving plenty of people susceptible to the virus if restrictions ease too quickly.
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Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
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Professor, Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sydney
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Hon Prof, Dept of Child & Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University
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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Research Fellow, Macquarie University
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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Research Fellow, Vaccine Uptake Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
