The only way an Alberta COVID-19 committee can meaningfully determine how public policy should be made is if it tackles head-on the question of how to measure the psychological impacts of policy.
Articles on COVID-19 vaccine rollout
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A major lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic is the need to decolonize transnational governance so that the world is better able to handle both future and current global crises.
It’s the comparison behind COVID-19 claims Scott Morrison has been making for two years. But comparing with countries at the same environmental risk shows Australia’s pandemic failures throughout.
Not all parents agree about vaccinating their child. Here’s what’s likely to happen if cases go to court.
The development of COVID vaccines has already been explosive. There are more innovations on the way.
Almost half of the countries in Africa have vaccination rates below 2%.
Careful planning enabled this small, mountainous Himalayan country to vaccinate 90% of its adult population in three weeks.
Brokering peace among the factions appearing in National Cabinet will be key to a successful transition to reopening Australia. But there are many gaps in the plan.
Not vaccinating children means living with the knowledge we haven’t done everything possible to ensure they don’t transmit COVID to more vulnerable people.
Millions of dollars worth of vaccines are thrown out each year because they are not transported or stored at the right temperature. We made a video to help prevent that.
The AMA has shaped some important decisions in the pandemic, but it’s not always clear how its power is used.
Doses of the Moderna vaccine will be available in Australia from mid-September. So if you’re in an eligible group you could be offered either Pfizer or Moderna. Here’s how they compare.
NSW needs to mandate masks outdoors, provide adequate financial support, set up a ‘ring of steel’, use rapid tests for essential workers, and ensure cases not in full isolation get to zero, among others.
Coordinate, motivate, deliver. That’s only the start of the jargon in Australia’s plan to vaccinate the nation.
20-39 year olds are ‘peak spreaders’. If we vaccinate them, it reduces the risk for all of us.
Any vaccine rollout plan that does not place the needs of people first, whether it involves the public or private sector or both, is bound to fail.
Despite Premier Gladys Berejiklian declaring a state of emergency, her plea to divert extra vaccines to New South Wales have fallen on deaf ears.
The major problem in Britain and elsewhere was complacency. The early success in suppressing smallpox, and indeed eliminating it in some places, led parents to neglect vaccination.
To paraphrase a legendary golfing saying, the harder you work, the luckier you get.
Expensive, opaque and in duplicate. Why company contracts to help the COVID vaccine rollout are such a concern.
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General Practitioner, PhD Candidate, Bond University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Deputy Director of the HUMLOG (Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management Research) Institute, Hanken School of Economics
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Professor of Epidemiology Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control, UNSW
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Professor, The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School and Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Paediatrics and vaccinologist, Royal Childrens Hospital, University of Melbourne and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI); Associate Dean International, University of Melbourne, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Research Fellow in Applied Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Adjunct Professor: Department Internal Medicine, University of Pretoria
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Research Fellow, Vaccine Uptake Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute