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“If governments provided better healthcare and public schools, more people would be content to use the publicly provided services along with everyone else, and fewer people would feel the need to work longer to afford private hospitals and schools.” smh.com.au/business/the-e…

🆕NEJM Why masking in health care facilities is still indicated nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

🙁Annual #OzHE reminder📆 QILT - SRC 2022 SES Nat Report ✔️Good📈recovery post COVID-19 ❌19% (all students) considered leaving HE in 2022 (19% in 2021) AGAIN: No1⃣ reason🥹 Health or Stress @ 51.1% (50.4% in 2021)😱 AND or related reasons next #UnisAccord ow.ly/RWZz50OWJFn

Dr Von Schuckmann advised looking for [sunscreen] that’s broad spectrum and SPF 50 or higher; whether it’s a chemical or mineral formulation doesn’t matter. The most important thing, she added, is that it “actually goes onto the skin every single morning.” nytimes.com/2023/07/15/wel…

Very IMPORTANT study - Vaccines or prior infection DO PROTECT against infection for low and moderate exposure to virus - Do NOT be protect if HIGH exposure So N95 masks, ventilation, filtration are CRITICAL, they can turn high exposures into low or moderate, avoid infection!

Smart—As COVID-19 cases & hospitalizations spike again, hospitals across the US are reinstating their mask rules. Hospitals in many parts of the country have brought back requirements for staff — and visitors — to wear masks. #Maskup Don’t risk #LongCovid scrippsnews.com/stories/hospit…

Statement from Commissioner Ashwin Vasan, MD, PhD on the BA.2.86 COVID-19 variant ⬇️ Read the full statement: on.nyc.gov/3qSqx8Y

A news piece in nature about the article about exposures to COVID in prisons that showed - vaccines protect from infection if exposure is low to moderate - do NOT protect from infection if HIGH exposure Thus reinforces reducing exposures: outdoors, ventilation, filt., N95 etc.

New Covid-19 vaccines have been announced in the US, for persons aged 6 months and older. Offered by both Pfizer and Moderna, they include an updated monovalent component corresponding to the Omicron variant XBB.1.5. fda.gov/news-events/pr…

Moderna aiming to launch a combined Covid-19 and influenza vaccine in the northern hemisphere in late 2025 and in Australia by early 2026 theaustralian.com.au/business/compa…

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Another study showing that mRNA vaccines in kids 1-4 years protect against #COVID, even #XBB: 63% effectiveness in fully vaccinated, infection-naive kids & 75% against reinfections in previously infected kids with at least 1 dose. We should be allowing children <5 years the

“The original sin of the pandemic was the failure to recognize airborne transmission,” says Harvard professor Joe Allen. He believes this lag in understanding cost tens of thousands of lives in the U.S. cbsn.ws/3QiveRZ

“The virus was wafting through the air, set adrift in coughs and conversation, even in song. The pandemic raged for 6 months before global health authorities acknowledged that it was driven by an airborne pathogen.” Indoor air quality standards must be set nytimes.com/2023/11/20/hea…

Greens politician Dr Amanda Cohn impressive speech in NSW Parliament about difficulties experienced by vulnerable (& sensible) people when accessing healthcare. She mentions patients right to safe healthcare. Please share #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne fb.watch/ovP_wGmbCr/

Australian pharmacies and GPs are finally starting to receive the updated #Covid19 XBB.1.5 vaccines (available in the US since September). If you’re eligible (eg all adults who haven’t had a Covid-19 vaccine in 2023) and haven’t been infected recently, consider getting boosted.

Data released today confirms that Victoria is seeing increasing levels of COVID-19 in the state, driven by the dominance of a new Omicron subvariant JN.1. Don’t let COVID spoil your Christmas. Remember the key actions that we know help to protect you and your loved ones. 1/3 🧵

Thank you Hayley Gleeson for shining a light on the lack of infection control in Healthcare, the importance of doing more to protect staff and patients with simple infection control measures and for giving me the chance to share my story. abc.net.au/news/2024-02-1…