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Dec 13 2022

Open Letter to National Cabinet from OzSAGE – 13 Dec 2022.

OzSAGE calls on National Cabinet to urgently revise the Strategic Framework for Transitioning COVID-19 Measures released on the 9th December 2022. While OzSAGE supports the intent of the strategic principles, many of the accompanying statements contained in the framework have serious inaccuracies and are not supported by the evidence or current real-life experiences.

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Nov 29 2022

Long covid – OzSAGE makes detailed submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry

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Oct 11 2021

Experts push mask mandates for all school children

Face masks should be mandatory for all Victorian schoolchildren once they return to classrooms, scientific and medical experts say, citing international evidence that schools without universal mask wearing are 3½ times more likely to experience a COVID-19 outbreak. Scientific lobby group OzSage argues Australian schools should follow the example of some US cities, where children as young […]

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Oct 11 2021

Primary school mask mandate tough to enforce but will ‘reduce transmission’

A paediatric and epidemiological expert and the head of the teachers’ union have both warned that the state’s new mask mandate for year three to six students will be difficult to enforce, though it should help to reduce COVID-19 transmission in schools. Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton ruled on Friday that Victorian children in years […]

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Oct 06 2021

‘No experience necessary’ for hospital at home jobs

Doctors fear there will be more deaths in the home among Covid positive patients as private operators recruit people with no background in healthcare.

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Sep 06 2021

OzSAGE releases independent expert advice on opening safely in the COVID-19 pandemic

Today, OzSAGE, a diverse, multi-disciplinary network of Australian experts, releases its first preliminary advice paper and high-level recommendations for the safe opening of Australia to complement the National Plan. Among the recommendations is advice that Australia live with occasional outbreaks – not widespread disease, and a ventilation and “Vaccine-Plus” approach to the safe lifting of […]

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Sep 06 2021

First advice from new expert body on reopening safely

The need for effective ventilation and a vaccines-plus approach are among the key recommendations of OzSage – a new multi-disciplinary network of Australian experts formed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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