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COVID complacency is a serious threat to public health. COVID hasn’t gone away. Vaccines haven’t become pointless – and it’s a good idea to keep wearing your mask.
Instead of making the lives of contact tracers easier, analysis shows the expensive technology missed contacts and added to their workload.
If you catch COVID-19 at work in Australia, you do have rights to leave and compensation, depending on your employment status
For now, it seems the benefits to Australia’s public health may be better served by other technology. And the public cost of maintaining the COVIDSafe app may not be in our collective interest.
COVIDSafe was only able to detect a handful of cases successfully, but that doesn’t mean Bluetooth isn’t a helpful tool for addressing viral spread.
New Zealand has joined a long list of countries using Google and Apple’s mobile contact tracing framework. But if it’s not compatible with Australia’s app, what does that mean for travellers?
Australia has hesitated in the past to adopt a strong privacy framework. A new government review provides an opportunity to improve data protection rules to an internationally competitive standard.
Yo-yoing lockdowns are costly and to be avoided if at all possible. Here is what we can do to dramatically improve testing and tracing.
Victorian Premier Dan Andrews and Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton on Sunday announced steps to slowly ease COVID-19 restrictions in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria. There are four steps…
My analysis suggests when COVID-19 cases reach 100 over 14 days, an outbreak gets very difficult to control — as we saw in Victoria. Over the last fortnight, NSW has recorded at least 154 new cases.
Eating at a restaurant and want to stay COVID safe? Check to see if staff are sanitising surfaces, wearing masks, using contactless payment, and spacing out customers.
Buddhist monks in Thailand continue to collect alms from households, despite the threat of the coronavirus. The reason: the practice is an important part of merit-making.
Despite disappointing download numbers and almost zero success in tracing COVID-19 infections, Australia is persisting with the COVIDSafe app, while the rest of the world embraces the ‘Gapple’ model.
Be careful when returning to the pub. Your alcohol tolerance might’ve changed during lockdown, meaning you could do greater harm to your body.
Smart city solutions have proved handy for curbing the contagion, but recent experience has also shown how much they rely on public trust. And that in turn depends on transparency and robust safeguards
COVIDSafe uses Bluetooth radio waves. These can only measure how physically close two people are, but not if those people are in the same room, or even in different cars passing each other.
The COVIDSafe app hasn’t come out of nowhere. The promises of ‘smart city’ data collection may be seductive, but we must always weigh up what we’re being asked to give up in return.
Only 51% of survey participants said they supported linking the number of COVIDSafe app downloads with an easing of lockdown restrictions.
A proposed fix to help the COVIDSafe app work on Apple phones may come with costs to public health and accountability.
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Psychology, Swansea University
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Director of Complex Human Data Hub and Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University
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Professor of Infectious Diseases and Global Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Epidemiology, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Health, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University
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Professor Emerita, Law, University of Sydney
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Law, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Computing & Information Systems; Director, Melbourne Data Analytics Platform, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Information and Communications Technology, CQUniversity Australia