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Today, we are joining over
700 health professionals and academics in sending an open
letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison urging him to
take a leadership role in expanding the global production of
COVID-19 vaccines and other medical tools to fight the
pandemic.
The letter, signed by 207 doctors, 177
academics and 111 public health professionals, asks the
government to help remove legal and technical barriers to
increasing the production of COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostic
tests, treatments and other equipment.
We argue
there is more Australia and other wealthy nations
can and should be doing to end the pandemic.
The
need to act urgently
The COVID-19 pandemic is
Experts are saying that countries with a higher coronavirus caseload, including India, need to prepare to deal with the long-term effects of the illness. This phenomenon is being termed as 'Long Covid'.
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Our pandemic response must be informed by the amount of chronic illness it generates.
Writing for The Conversation, Dr Nisreen Alwan, Associate Professor in Public Health, reflects on her own persoal experience of having COVID-19 and the after-effects of Long COVID which she is campaigning to have recognised at national and international levels.
On March 20 2020, while the UK was anticipating its first national lockdown to control the coronavirus pandemic, I started feeling unwell with what felt like a COVID-19 infection.
Over the next couple of days, I developed a collection of symptoms: fever, chills, cough, chest heaviness, exhaustion, diarrhoea, abdominal pain and bad muscle aches, particularly in my legs. Since the UK government had stopped lab testing for those who were not hospitalised for COVID-19 on March 12, the vast majority of community infections in March remained unconfirmed by testing, including mine. The instruction then was that if you were not ill enough to go to