Most people who get COVID today will experience only a mild illness. But some are still at risk of severe illness. Here’s what the virus looks like 5 years on.
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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.
Official guidance still suggests you should take a test if you think you might have COVID – and this is a sensible thing to do.
A sore throat is more common with Omicron than Delta, but that doesn’t mean a throat swab will give you a more accurate – or earlier – result.
Two years ago, the Recovery trial transformed COVID treatments around the world with a landmark finding that may have saved a million lives in just nine months
If you cannot communicate a concept clearly, then you don’t understand it well enough yourself.
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.
Each home testing kit contains around 10 grams of plastic.
Pathology companies have recorded massive profits from COVID testing, with each PCR test attracting a Medicare rebate of A$85.
A statistically designed random sampling scheme, based on as few as 100 people, would give a very high probability of detecting if there are any COVID-19 cases and highlight at-risk hotspots.
The government says hotel quarantine is ‘serving Australia very well’. But if you look at the leaks as a proportion of COVID-positive returnees, it’s a different story.
As the epidemic is increasingly under control, more healthy than infected people will be told to self-isolate or quarantine.
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