Covid19 is likely to continue as a major domestic and international disruptor in 2021. While covid19 vaccines give some hope, they may be no panacea. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been remarkably good at preventing serious illness.
The deaths of over 800 people during Victoria’s second wave of the covid19 pandemic have been the subject of three recent reports. The most prominent was the Board of Inquiry into the hotel quarantine fiasco; the second a Legislative Council report into contact tracing and testing; and the third an inquiry into two aged-care facilities…
by Peter Westmore President Donald Trump’s covid19 infection and subsequent hospitalisation have overshadowed the U.S. election campaign, including the first presidential debate and President Trump’s nomination of an outstanding woman, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, to replace feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court. The course of Trump’s Covid19 diagnosis will not be…
by Patrick J. Byrne Epidemiologists study the incidence, distribution and possible control of diseases. They find a good measure of covid19 deaths is to count “excess deaths”: that is the number of deaths this year compared with the average of deaths over the same period (say, January to August) in the past four years. While…
COVID 19: What You Need to Know about the Coronavirus and the Race for the Vaccineby Dr Michael MosleySimon and Schuster Australia, Cammeray, NSWPaperback: 144 pagesPrice: AUD$19.99 Reviewed by Peter Westmore Dr Michael Mosley, the author of this book – subtitled, “What You Need to Know about the Coronavirus and the Race for the Vaccine”…
