The mantra of health authorities during the pandemic has been “test, test, test” – but many complexities are involved, report Professor Allen Cheng and Professor Deborah Williamson. Allen Ch... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: As the world continues to struggle to control the coronavirus pandemic and its devastating economic, health and social impacts, a high profile group called the Commi... Read more
As reported earlier at Croakey, the circumstances surrounding a coronavirus outbreak have thrown North West Regional Hospital in Burnie, Tasmania, and its staff into the spotlight this week.... Read more
Yesterday, Australians finally got to see the modelling on which our current response to the COVID-19 pandemic is partially based – via a press conference with the Prime Minister and the Chi... Read more
A small silver lining for Australia as we respond to the COVID-19 pandemic is that we are relatively “late to the party”. We can learn from what has worked, and what has not, in other places... Read more
On 4 March Jinhee Kim, a South Korean public health researcher currently in Australia, wrote in Croakey about her nation’s preparedness for a pandemic. Her article displayed just how far ahe... Read more
Last night (23 March) Australia’s deputy chief medical officer, Dr Paul Kelly, said that new protocols determining who can be tested for the virus that causes COVID-19 will be announce... Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed structural flaws in the way we prevent and treat ill health, reports Jennifer Doggett. This article is published as part of a collaboration with Inside Stor... Read more
In response to the coronavirus, the City of Melbourne has announced closures of all its libraries, swimming pools, recreation centres, arts and cultural venues, visitors centres, community h... Read more
There many groups at increased risk of harms related to the COVID-19 pandemic whose needs appear to be largely ignored in Australia’s response (including homeless people, people with disabil... Read more
