We’ve learnt two cases linked to Melbourne’s COVID outbreak were in fact ‘false positives’. Here’s what that means, why it can happen, and how common it is.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Melbourne outbreak
Displaying all articles
Recent commentary has suggested transport, age, jobs, migrant population and other factors among the reasons that may help explain the difference. What does the data say?
What might the past offer us at this moment, and how will future generations reflect on this year? How will this present become the future’s past?
A new report shows out of 1 million students enrolled in all Victorian schools, only 337 may have acquired the virus through outbreaks at school.
Putting all of Victoria under stage 4 restrictions would give the state its best chance of stopping community transmission, rather than setting it up to play an endless game of COVID-19 whack-a-mole.
The inner suburbs are home to large numbers of workers in jobs vulnerable to the pandemic. If they’re forced to seek cheaper housing in outer suburbs, the urban divide will widen.
Not everyone has a job they can do from home. Mapping the patterns of occupations across Melbourne’s suburbs against COVID-19 cases strongly suggests why some parts of the city are more vulnerable.
The hard lockdowns of whole blocks have been challenging for many residents due to their histories of trauma, their housing conditions and a lack of communication and understanding from authorities.
Much of our public housing stock is ageing and substandard. But we can learn from outstanding examples of retrofit projects that have transformed existing blocks into high-quality housing.
The spread of the virus through households creates costs higher than for isolation in hotels when families are large and living at close quarters as in Melbourne’s public housing towers.
The public housing hard lockdown is the product of a punitive public housing system whose residents have been neglected for decades.
Top contributors
-
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Sydney
-
Associate Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
-
Professor of Epidemiology Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control, UNSW Sydney
-
Demographer, ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University
-
Honorary Senior Fellow in Urban Geography and Planning, The University of Melbourne
-
Director, Center for Community Child Health Royal Children's Hospital; Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Theme Director Population Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
-
Professor in Architecture and Director, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne
-
Health Services Researcher, The University of Melbourne
-
Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, University of Newcastle
-
Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University
-
Professor of Health Economics, University of Bologna, University of Newcastle
-
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hallmark Research Initiative for Affordable Housing, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Urban Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
-
Paediatrician at the Royal Childrens Hospital and Associate Professor and Clinician Scientist, University of Melbourne and MCRI, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
-
Professor and Director of Urban Planning & Design, Monash University
