When Dean's* father was rushed to hospital with a bad case of gastro in February, he assumed he'd be back on his feet in a few days. "The numbers indicate that there is a big problem here — these infections and deaths are potentially preventable," said Associate Professor Suman Majumdar, chief health officer for COVID and health emergencies at the …
Steve Irons' older brother Jim was only supposed to be in hospital for a short while. But senior healthcare workers in several states say vulnerable people — including transplant and oncology patients and others with compromised immune systems — are contracting COVID because even basic precautions are not being taken: a consequence, they say, of hospitals' failure to address airborne …
Like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andres Obrador before him, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been infected with COVID for a second time. The United Kingdom’s COVID Infection Survey recently published an analysis of people testing positive for COVID again between June and October 2022, when the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants were circulating widely. Research published …
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If you've got a holiday or big event coming up, the fear of catching COVID-19 could be on your mind a little more than usual. So while it may feel like a long time, taking extra precautions two weeks ahead of your plans could help you reduce the risk, but even then there's no guarantee you won't catch COVID. Socialising …
The two-metre social distancing rule is a “random measurement” and does not protect against catching Covid, a University of Cambridge study has suggested. Researchers said that the number was chosen from a risk “continuum”, rather than being a mark of safety, and without extra measures, such as face masks, a person with Covid could infect someone else at a two-metre …
