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World Socialist Web Site

Australian COVID-19 infections rise to highest level in more than a year

Recent weeks have seen successive rises in reported COVID infection numbers across Australia, with figures in some states indicating virus levels not seen since early 2023. The growing wave of COVID, ...
World Socialist Web Site

Australian Labor government quietly acknowledges likely COVID holiday surge, but no public health measures

In a statement released on Friday, the Labor government’s Health Minister Mark Butler blandly noted “an expected festive season wave” of COVID infection and illness. Australian Health Minister Mark ...
The Conversation

It’s 4 years since the first COVID case in Australia. Here’s how our pandemic experiences have changed over time

SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney It might be hard ...
The Conversation

Long COVID cost the Australian economy almost $10 billion in 2022 – new research

Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney C Raina MacIntyre receives funding from NHMRC (L3 Investigator grant and Centre for ...
Yahoo

Watch out, COVID numbers are on the rise again | THE MOM STOP

Thankfully, the height of the pandemic seems like a long-ago memory ― the masking, the wiping down of groceries, the stocking of toilet paper and hand sanitizer. A very long nightmare, but one that is ...