In this latest edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell investigates wide-ranging challenges facing the rollout of COVID vaccines, reports on the latest news in climate... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: When Pfizer and BioNTech issued this media release on 9 November, it generated international headlines about an impending COVID-19 vaccine and moved stock markets ar... Read more
Hotel quarantine, the COVID-19 vaccine and mental health were all on the agenda when the Department of Health faced the Senate Community Affairs Committee at the estimates hearings in Canber... Read more
Today, 29 October, marks the 20th anniversary of Australia being declared free of polio, an infectious disease that terrified the community through the 1940s and 1950s in particular, and con... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: With crippling public health failings by the Trump administration in its response to the novel coronavirus pandemic continuing to overshadow the US election race, a... Read more
This week, the world recorded one million lives lost from COVID-19. It is timely to reflect on the recent past, as well as looking to what may lie ahead. Over at The Conversation, experts sh... Read more
How do presidential contenders Donald Trump and Joe Biden stack up when it comes to COVID-19? How will the pandemic continue to affect us, even if a vaccine is developed? And how are bilbies... Read more
The health impacts of the Tour de France, global news on coronavirus, a better future for aged care, the abolition of Public Health England, and an exercise in deliberative democracy are amo... Read more
In The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell provides an update on coronavirus news and developments, reports on important safety and quality news for aged care and healthcare, and... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Whether looking to the roll out of an unproven COVID-19 vaccine in Russia or Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s (short-lived) enthusiasm for mandatory vaccination, it i... Read more
