Associate Professor Ian News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Queensland has recorded more than twice the number of Covid-19 virus infections this year than laboratory-confirmed flu cases. Since January 1, the state has had 380 cases of the pandemic virus and just 178 diagnosed flu infections. In May, 37 flu diagnoses were confirmed in Queensland, compared with the 3342 known infections during the same month in 2019. But despite flu levels plummeting during the coronavirus pandemic, health authorities say people should still make sure they get a flu shot.   Queensland appears headed for a small flu season amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, bu...

Date Time Creativity during COVID-19 The challenges of COVID-19 provided creative inspiration for graduating students from the Sydney College of the Arts Masters of the Moving Image (MMI) degree. These films will screen at the MMI Graduation Showcase on 19 December. Despite the challenges and restrictions presented by COVID-19, Masters of the Moving Image graduating students produced excellent films, taking an innovative approach to animation, split-screen story-telling and mobile-phone shooting. “Under this year’s COVID-19 lockdown, Sydney College of the Arts’ MMI students cre...

Normal text size Very large text size The news that a deal for the federal government to buy more than 50 million doses of the University of Queensland’s potential coronavirus vaccine has been abruptly terminated will come as a shock to many. But it is important to put this announcement in context. While we still do not yet know full details around just what has gone wrong with the University of Queensland’s vaccine, we do know two things. First, vaccines often fail clinical trials. That is the point of a clinical trial – to check if a vaccine is safe and effective. Given the U...