On the fourth anniversary of New Zealand’s first COVID case it’s clear this is not a normal pandemic. Despite fatigue and indifference, New Zealand must heed the evidence and improve its response.
Jane Tuckerman, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Ashleigh Rak, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Danielle Wurzel, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, and Margie Danchin, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Even otherwise healthy children can end up in hospital with this winter respiratory virus.
Understanding how injury and disease, including COVID-19, can impair lung function can help researchers and clinicians better help patients who are experiencing chronic conditions
While a strong immune response is essential to fight against viral infection, an immune system that continues to stay active long after the virus has been cleared can lead to lung damage.
ECMO uses an artificial heart and lung to replace the entire function of the person’s own heart and lungs outside the body. And COVID is demanding more ECMO than we’ve ever used before.
Many of the temperatures presently being recorded in Africa, and those projected in the next decade, are already close to the limits of human survival, or “liveability”.
It causes fever, a dry cough, shortness of breath. Outbreaks are frequently deadly. It’s not COVID-19, and it could be waiting in your workplace after lockdown.