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Objective: Communities with high levels of vaccine rejection present unique challenges to vaccine-preventable disease outbreak management. We sought perspectives of nonvaccinating parents to inform public health responses in such communities. Methods: Nineteen purposively sampled nonvaccinating Australian parents participated in one of seven online dialogue groups. We asked what they thought parents, school principals and public health professionals should do in a hypothetical school measles outbreak and used a framework approach to data analysis. Results: Parents' views were grounded in ...

Been and will continue to be a vital part of our management of covid. however, as the nature of the threat and our approach to managing it evolves, so too will our approach to testing. it is reasonable over time and barring adverse developments to move away from the mass population wide asymptomatic testing, towards a more targeted system focused on specific priorities. these priorities will include surveillance, rapid detection of and response to new variants, effective outbreak management, particularly in high risk settings like care homes and hospitals, and ensuring access to care and treat...

TWO Worcestershire schools have confirmed they have had coronavirus outbreaks.

New coronavirus rules could boost infections to 80,000 a day, says PM

The Government of The Netherlands has decreed a strict lockdown until January 14 on all non-essential activities due to the spread of the coronavirus Omicron variant. A daily cap of two visitors per household has also been decreed, which will be raised to four people for Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.