Hospitalisations and deaths attributed to COVID have dropped significantly since a peak in 2022. But a new variant could still reverse the trend quickly.
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Here’s how we design a fairer pathology system, fit for the 21st century, with no out-of-pocket costs or the public.
Still getting a negative RAT after a COVID exposure and days of symptoms? It might be time to consider a PCR.
Here’s what we know from the limited data publicly available.
If you cannot communicate a concept clearly, then you don’t understand it well enough yourself.
Your blood can hold a record of past illnesses. That information can reveal how many people have had a certain infection – like 58% of Americans having had COVID-19 by the end of February 2022.
England has stopped offering free COVID tests, amid a large surge in cases. Here’s what that could mean.
X-ray scans are taken in hospitals worldwide – and an AI program has been taught to scan them for coronavirus.
While public health measures in schools and hospitals aim to reduce COVID transmission, people with disability who have support workers in their homes have largely been forgotten.
Removing ways of tracking and preventing the spread of COVID will lead to more disruption and ill health.
One of the consequences of the failure of developing countries like South Africa to authorise self-testing is that it is driving a thriving black market.
It doesn’t need to be scary or painful. With the right technique, you’ll be able to perform this test quickly and safely at home.
Rapid Antigen Tests are being rolled out by the millions for Australians to check their COVID status. But a result should be interpreted in context.
Recent research found around a quarter of people with classic COVID symptoms didn’t get tested.
A nationwide genomic surveillance system analyzes positive COVID-19 tests to build a picture of which variants are spreading in the population.
The Biden administration intends to distribute an additional 500 million at-home rapid COVID tests starting in January.
An expert in global public health answers questions on omircron.
Vaccines alone aren’t enough to protect against the highly contagious Delta variant.
The evidence suggests antigen tests are most accurate when the viral load is highest and when a person is likely to be most infectious.
Knowing how much virus someone has in their body when testing positive for COVID-19 allows you to estimate when they picked up the virus.
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Professor of Microbiology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Professor, University of Sydney; RMIT University
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor and Director of Doherty Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh
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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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Clinical associate professor, Australian National University
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Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Demography and Global Health, University of Portsmouth
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Universitas Brawijaya
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Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Durham University
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Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School