Tag: Michael Toole - article author
Why is Delta such a worry? It’s more infectious, probably causes more severe disease, and challenges our vaccines
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While Australians may be focused on the havoc the Delta variant is wreaking on our shores, Delta is in fact driving waves of COVID...
More than a dozen COVID leaks in 6 months: to protect Australians, it’s time to move quarantine out of city hotels
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In the past week, at least six Australians returned home uninfected only to acquire the coronavirus while undergoing quarantine in hotels...
After a year of pain, here’s how the COVID-19 pandemic could play out in 2021 and beyond
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One year ago yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the first caused by a coronavirus.
As we enter year two...
Of all the places that have seen off a second coronavirus wave, only Vietnam and Hong Kong have done as well as Victorians
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Of the 215 nations and territories that have reported COVID-19 cases, 120 have experienced clear second waves or late first waves that...