| Foundation Director, Australian Health Services Research Institute | |
| Adjunct Professor, Health Services Research UNSW and QUT | |
| Interested in all things health, aged care, COVID, equity, social justice, politics, Bali | |
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Australia had 909 COVID deaths in the whole of 2020. And we were all horrified.
10,000 excess deaths in 2023 and everyone is patting themselves on the back proclaiming the pandemic over.
I’m expecting another 10,000 excess deaths again next year as well 🤦🏼♀️
I went to three in-person conferences this summer. All asked attendees to COVID test every other day.
The first "encouraged" masks, and had a COVID outbreak.
The second "encouraged" masks, and had 10 percent positivity by the second to last day, at which point they started requiring masks.
The third REQUIRED masks indoors, and had zero positive COVID tests.
I really believe that a Yes vote for the Voice is best for our country and I’m sad to watch the divisive tactics being employed by the No campaign.
If you don’t know, inform yourself. If you still don’t know, write ‘don’t know’ to make your vote informal. Informal votes don’t count. ‘Don’t know, vote no’ is a key strategy of the No campaign. It’s not ok
It is reasonably certain that we have entered another covid-19 wave, writes Christina Pagel. But what are the implications? There are very few ways now to track the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in England since the end of wastewater monitoring in March 2022, the end of the Office for National Statistics Covid-19 Infection Survey in March 2023, and the gradual reduction of SARS-CoV-2 testing in hospitals since August 2022.123 However, all indications are that prevalence reached its lowest level this June/July since the summer of 2020. Weekly deaths with covid on the death certificate from that period are at the lowest recorded level since the start of the pandemic.4 But since the start of July 2023, daily hospital admissions with covid have been increasing (more than doubled as at 4 August compared to four weeks earlier), and the number of patients in hospital primarily because of covid has also doubled in that time.56 Secondary indicators such as the Zoe Symptom Tracker app and …
This wonderful, intelligent woman spoke with calmness, sense and knowledge at a time when we as a collective needed the smartest of us to step up.
She did that. But she did it in a way that was holding. Her discussions on ABC radio Melbourne with Virginia Trioli during the long lockdowns were so important.
We owe her, and she’s missed.
Love to her family, friends, and colleagues.
Peter Frederick
Daniel Delgado
megan