Category Archives: Interviews of interesting people

A short film offering a firsthand perspective of the brutality of the pandemic inside a Covid-19 I.C.U. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/opinion/covid-icu-nurses-arizona.html

Hearing the voices of Australian healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic | BMJ Leader — Read on bmjleader.bmj.com/content/early/2020/12/16/leader-2020-000386.info

Women are more likely to take COVID-19 seriously — and more likely to comply with public health recommendations like mask wearing and social distancing. — Read on insightplus.mja.com.au/2021/4/why-the-worlds-pandemic-response-needs-more-female-voices/

Experts fear false narratives about vaccines could slow down the task of inoculating people and create other problems in the future. — Read on http://www.statnews.com/2021/02/17/the-myth-of-good-and-bad-covid-vaccines-why-false-perceptions-overlook-facts-and-could-breed-resentment/

Little things matter a lot in managing COVID-19. So why isn’t Australia’s hotel quarantine system focused on extra-easy precautions like the use of N95 masks for all hotel workers? — Read on http://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/small-holes-make-for-big-problems-in-pandemic-australia-20210214-p572d7

The catastrophic failure of many Western democracies such as the US, UK and many European countries to control COVID-19 has been shocking. Prior to this pandemic, there has been a long-held view in these same countries that only fragile states and low-income countries will fail during a pandemic, and would need benevolent assistance from highContinue reading “The hijacking of public health and the price paid during the COVID-19 pandemic | NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence, Integrated Systems for Epidemic Response”