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Community mask use

OzSAGE today released scientific guidance on the use of masks in the community, showing how to increase mask effectiveness, which is critical to keep COVID in check as restrictions are relaxed and more mixing and movement of people occurs. If we don’t increase mask use and mask effectiveness as restrictions are lifted, we risk a surge of […]
Working Group: Community Masks
Tags: masks
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Community Partnerships: An Essential Foundation to Successful COVID-19 Control

OzSAGE today released scientific guidance on community partnerships for controlling COVID-19. Many communities, including culturally and linguistically diverse communities, are at higher risk of COVID-19 infection because they are over-represented in essential, low paid work; live in larger, crowded, households; live in buildings with shared public spaces; or have few links to social supports. Many communities […]
Working Group: All Advice Documents, Community Driven Response
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Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska named in Time’s annual 100 most influential people in the world

QUT’s Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska, an international air quality expert, has been named in the 2021 TIME100, the annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. OzSAGE congratulates Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska, a world renowned scientist, for being recognised in the Times100 list of the most influential people in the world.  Professor […]
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Modelling of NSW Roadmap to Freedom ICU Capacity for the Delta epidemic 2021

Summary: We estimate about 1890 daily cases in NSW at the time the first freedoms are granted on October 18th when the 70% adult vaccination target is met. The virus outpaces the vaccine, spreading every few days while vaccine immunity takes two months to achieve. This is why vaccination, whilst our ultimate exit strategy, cannot […]
Working Group: ICU and Health System, Modelling
Tags: modelling
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