The increasingly strident and wide-spread criticism of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is a problem of the Commonwealth Government’s own making. It is time for the Commonwealth Government to level with Australians, so we can better understand what the plan is and whether everything really is going to plan.
read more The vaccine rollout – going well according to which plan?
Here’s a useful chart for people trying to keep trace of the ’stubborn tail’ of COVID-19 cases.
Victorians in 10 postcodes across Melbourne’s north and west have been ordered back into lockdown. But regaining control of COVID-19 remains the responsibility of all Victorians.
There’s still a lot we don’t know about how the virus affects children. We are safer if we make decisions while fully aware of that uncertainty, rather than with an unfounded surety. Only then can we properly measure the trade-offs, and make the tough decisions that need to be made about our schools.
read more How children get and transmit COVID-19 is still a mystery
Almost two million Australians downloaded the COVIDSafe app in the first 22 hours of its release. But that is a long way from the numbers the app needs to be effective. The government needs to do more to convince people it can be trusted.
A growing body of evidence shows that if we can hold the course for a little while longer, Australia could beat coronavirus.
read more Australia should join New Zealand and shoot for eliminating coronavirus
Australia has turned a corner, but we must be careful about when we lift restrictions, what restrictions we lift, and in what order.
Driven by tighter restrictions at the border, new cases of COVID-19 have fallen rapidly in Australia. But local transmission has not shared the same fate, with the rate of new cases remaining relatively flat over the past week or so.
The lessons from overseas are clear: unless Australians comprehensively comply with spatial distancing, those measures won’t work and our hospitals will be over-run.
read more Australia’s COVID-19 cases are still growing rapidly. Our hospitals may soon hit capacity.
We should be clear: a shutdown of anything that isn’t truly essential will be needed to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system.
read more As more Australians get COVID-19, will we have enough hospital beds?
