ANALYSIS: After omicron smashed the nation’s infection defences and fuelled a record in cases and fatalities, Australia needs a major reset of its pandemic response.
Scientists from the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity examine a close up electron microscope image of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant of the coronavirus.On the health front, Australia is now in a very different phase to the traditional pandemic public health response, meaning there will need to be some rapid thinking about how confidence is restored in the management of the pandemic.
Turville notes that just as has been learnt from decades of dealing with HIV, there needs to be a broader base of pan-coronavirus vaccines that more comprehensively deal with COVID-19 and its aggressive mutations, no matter what their source.to have repeated mRNA boosters.on this urgent development challenge is now critical.
This could include nasal vaccines that provide mucosal immunity. The early evidence is that stopping the virus getting into the body could be a Turville describes omicron as the Ferrari of viruses, and the worst fear is that a new turbocharged model will wreak havoc on an already highly stressed health system, not to mention vulnerable patients and their families.Architect Knut Menden at German International School Sydney oversees classrooms designed to achieve better air quality.Like most Western countries, Australia has been remarkably slow to seriously embrace the idea that COVID-19 is essentially an aerosol-driven virus.
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