From February 20, adults who haven’t had a COVID infection or COVID vaccine dose in the past six months are eligible for a booster, irrespective of how many previous doses they’ve had. So why get one?
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Face masks are still an effective way to help stop the spread of the BA.5 subvariant.
Imagine if every meal you ate included food previously chewed by someone else. That’s what’s happening to the air we breathe in shared indoor spaces.
The plans to keep schools open through the wave of Omicron infections fail to take into account the particular challenges of staffing rural and remote schools.
Emerging evidence suggests the highly infectious Omicron variant has the ability to escape the protection two vaccine doses offer.
We can’t say whether longer Omicron survivability on surfaces relates to a greater risk of infection.
The arrival of the highly infectious Omicron variant has changed the COVID landscape in Australia. We asked 5 experts whether it’s time to rethink vaccine mandates for dining, fitness and events.
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New Zealand has managed to stamp out onward transmission of the Delta variant, which means it’s not dealing with a “double epidemic” and has a better chance to tackle Omicron’s spread.
Studies suggest seniors without the booster shot run a higher risk of infection and hospitalization from the omicron variant.
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Epidemiology, Population Interventions Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Virginia
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Professor and Department Chair of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh
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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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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer (Above the Bar) in Public Health and Co-Director of the GeoHealth Laboratory, University of Canterbury
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Academic Specialist & Lecturer in Cancer Sciences & Digital Health| Superstar of STEM| Science Communicator, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle
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Principal Medical Scientist at National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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COFUND/Marie Curie Junior Research Fellow, Durham University
