Health

Research: Vaccine resistant COVID-19 strains most likely to emerge when 60% of us are vaccinated

August 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

As Queensland and New South Wales battle to suppress the DELTA variant with push to get the populations vaccinated experts have warned that Vaccine resistant COVID-19 strains [...]

Rapid antigen testing isn’t perfect. But it could be a useful part of Australia’s COVID response

August 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

Shutterstock Deborah Williamson, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and Sharon Lewin, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity Since the [...]

Vaccination rate needs to hit 70% to trigger easing of restrictions

August 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

Seven in ten people aged 16 and over will need to be fully vaccinated for COVID restrictions to begin to be eased, under targets agreed in principle by national cabinet on [...]

QLD COVID-19: nine new cases, testing rate to low

August 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

Queensland has nine new cases acquired in the community in Queensland over the last 24 hours, and has conducted 11,468 tests in the last 24 hour period. Government officials [...]

10 New Covid Cases In Queensland – All UK Variant

March 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

Queensland has 10 new cases overnight. Eight of these are community acquired cases, with six close contacts of confirmed cases. 14,589 tests have been conducted over the last [...]

Israel: Fetus Dies From COVID-19 at 36 weeks

February 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

Israel: According to reports in Israeli media outlet N12, an Israeli woman in the 36th week of her pregnancy has lost her baby due to COVID-19. The mother, who was infected [...]

FactCheck: Does Facebook change its policies based on Zuckerberg’s opinion and did he say COVID Vaccines change people’s DNA? No and we can’t say for sure

February 24, 2021 // 0 Comments

The internet is fall of hoaxes and fake news, so one of the latest claims are that Facebook deletes opinions that go against Mark Zuckerberg’s opinion and that he claims [...]

COVID-19: Nearly a third of people with serious COVID may suffer PTSD

February 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

A recently published Italian study of 381 patients who had recovered from severe COVID-19 found 30.2 per cent (115 patients) had post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The [...]

Around 1 in 6 Australians drank more alcohol during the COVID-19 pandemic, but 1 in 6 drank less

November 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

According to Australian research around 1 in 6 Australians drank more alcohol during the COVID19 pandemic – but around 1 in 6 Aussies also drank less. One reason for [...]