With no national standard, casually employed staff, a lack of PPE and a refusal to account for aerosol transmission, infections such as the one that prompted Perth’s lockdown will keep happening.
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As we approach our first COVID-era Christmas, the way we celebrate this year might need a bit more thought. Here are some tips to keep the festivities with family and friends COVID-safe.
Three infection prevention and control experts break down Victoria’s new hotel quarantine system.
Following these simple steps can help to keep your holiday memorable in the best possible way.
No kissing, jumping up and down on the dance floor, or buffets. Sounds like a COVID wedding.
The aged care royal commission’s recent report on COVID-19 recommended accredited infection prevention and control experts be sent into residential aged care. Here’s what that means.
Health-care workers’ access to personal protective equipment, along with appropriate infection control procedures, affected their mental health during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our video shows aerosol emissions from singing a simple scale. No wonder singing in a choir can be risky.
We can strike a balance between minimising transmission risk and practising compassion to allow loved ones to visit patients with COVID-19 in ICU at the end of their lives.
Some 70-80% of health-care workers testing positive to COVID-19 in Victoria’s second wave were infected at work, compared with 22% in the first wave.
Most aged care homes are designed to be naturally ventilated. But when windows are closed to keep out the cold, poor ventilation appears to be common – and that’s a problem for infection control.
There are a number of things you should do, including keeping the person with COVID-19 isolated, and cleaning regularly.
Contaminated masks are an infection risk. Here’s how to clean them properly.
Even though cases haven’t dropped off yet, mandatory masks have probably helped to prevent cases continuing to spiral upwards - which is a real risk with this virus.
When it comes to PPE, we could be better protecting our frontline health-care workers. We need to update current guidelines to reflect the latest evidence around how COVID-19 spreads.
Just because someone isn’t wearing a mask doesn’t mean they don’t want to. They might have a disability or medical condition you can’t see that makes wearing a mask difficult or distressing.
The more layers your mask has, the better, our new research confirms.
Healthcare workers bear the extraordinary practical and psychological challenges of working daily with the threat of infection and for many months.
Health workers, who have long used face masks as part of their everyday work, share their tips on how to comfortably wear them and see where you’re going.
Having the right equipment is not enough – getting health workers to use it is also a challenge.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor, Director Cabrini Monash University Department of Nursing Research, Monash University
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Professor of Nursing and Health Services Research, Avondale College of Higher Education
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University
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Senior lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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PhD Candidate, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Research Associate, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Health, CQUniversity Australia
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UNSW Sydney
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, UNSW Sydney
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Professor MBBS, PhD, MPH, PGDipEcho, FANZCA, GAICD, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Clinical Chair and Professor of Infection Prevention and Disease Control at the University of Sydney, University of Sydney
