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, a new weekly science newsletter written by national science reporter Liam Mannix. You can sign up here (it’s free). The third edition is below.
“When the science changes we must change our response, and when the virus changes its method of attack we must change our method of defence.”
“The elements of this are quite frightening. It’s quite different than anything we’ve seen before.”
“This hyper-infectious variant is moving at hyper-speed.”
Can you guess which political leaders uttered these three quotes?
The first is British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the second is South Australian Premier Steven Marshall and number three is Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews.
Quarantine must be made to work better
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Since the most recent return to lockdown, the message from Victoria’s government to its population has been that “we know how to do this”. However with the latest breach of hotel quarantine, a reasonable response is “are you sure?”. Moreover, those voices asking why we have to keep doing it – and more importantly, whether the government is learning from its mistakes – have grown increasingly urgent and authoritative.
Age, Professor Lindsay Grayson – an expert witness at last year’s state inquiry into hotel quarantine and leading infectious diseases expert – says that infection controls within the state’s quarantine hotel system still aren’t strict enough when it comes to protective equipment and procedures. He also argues that talk of the challenge posed by the so-called UK variant of the virus is mis
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews was nowhere to be seen yesterday after concerns emerged regarding a gap in the containment ring around Melbourne s latest coronavirus outbreak. Over the weekend it was revealed that a large group of individuals were potentially exposed to the mutant UK strain after a female quarantine worker attended a family event in Melbourne s inner north on February 6. Investigators initially ruled it out as an exposure site after the worker tested negative the following day, on February 7 - but when a guest later returned a positive result, authorities looked into the woman s result and found it was actually a weak positive .
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Small holes make for big problems in pandemic Australia
Australian Society of Anaesthetists president Dr Suzi Nou holds an N95 mask. Credit: Jason South, published in the Australian Financial Review
Following COVID-19 outbreaks stemming from quarantine hotels across Australia, Burnet’s Professor Mike Toole AM and Burnet’s Professor Brendan Crabb AC provided comment for this opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review.
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Small holes make for big problems in pandemic Australia
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?