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OzSAGE says governments must act immediately to decrease the death rate from COVID-19

OzSAGE says governments must act immediately to decrease the death rate from COVID-19. The consensus of a broad range of OzSAGE experts today is that we must care about and respectfully acknowledge deaths due to COVID-19, disclose data on mortality objectively, and talk about the causes with scientific authenticity and integrity. The deaths are far […]
Working Group: All Advice Documents
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We urgently need better masks (respirators)

Australia is an outlier in not yet recommending or providing high-quality face coverings that provide filtration- respirators (N95/P2/KF94/FFP2) to the community. The Covid-19 virus is transmitted through breathing in small particles known as ‘aerosols’ that contain the virus. These small particles are produced by breathing, talking, and coughing, and they float and linger in the […]
Working Group: All Advice Documents, Community Masks
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“Living with COVID-19” requires governments to resource Rapid Antigen Tests

COVID-19 infections – and the diagnosis and recording of infections as ‘case numbers’ – will always matter. However with the collapse in testing, test positivity rates soaring, PCR restricted to a small fraction of people and rapid antigen tests (RATs) largely unavailable and unaffordable, case numbers are no longer informative. Trends can only be reliably […]
Working Group: All Advice Documents, omicron
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