COVID-19

alliance
COVID-19, Healthcare News, Hospitals
National Rural Health Alliance says daily vaccine race gives false hope
Healthcare Channel Aug 24, 2021

The political rhetoric at daily COVID-19 briefings that the ticket to freedom for city dwellers is reaching up to 80 per cent vaccination coverage, is

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cases
Aged Care, COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
COVID-19 Update: NSW records 681 new locally acquired cases
Healthcare Channel Aug 19, 2021

NSW recorded 681 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8 pm last night. Of these locally acquired cases, 170 are

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neurological
Children's Health, COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals, International News
Kids with COVID-19 or MIS-C have surprisingly high rates of neurological symptoms
Lourdes Antenor Aug 19, 2021

Children and adolescents are at risk of developing serious neurological complications from COVID-19 that require hospitalization. Elizabeth Mack, M.D., chief of pediatric critical care medicine

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swab
COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
Cooperation Under Pressure: Lessons from Covid Swab Crisis
Lourdes Antenor Aug 19, 2021

Washington, D.C. – August 18, 2021 – A major crisis that accompanied the rise of the pandemic was lack of availability of the nasopharyngeal swab—necessary for

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elective surgery
COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
APHA says Elective surgery backlog in ‘serious’ state
Lourdes Antenor Aug 17, 2021

A significant number of patients are waiting for elective surgery, 18 months after the first COVID-19 enforced shut down of procedures. It will be some

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award
COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals, International News
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman Awarded Horwitz Prize for Pioneering Research on Covid Vaccines
Lourdes Antenor Aug 17, 2021

NEW YORK, NY (August 16, 2021)—Columbia will award the 2021 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Katalin Karikó, PhD, and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, for trailblazing

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pharmacists
COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
Pharmacists quickly reach 100k rollout milestone
Lourdes Antenor Aug 17, 2021

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) congratulates Australian pharmacists for standing up for their communities, as they pass an important milestone. In a few short

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prison
COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
“Jabs in jail” urgently needed as COVID-19 encroaches on NSW’s prison
Lourdes Antenor Aug 17, 2021

Prison officers are still waiting to get vaccinated even as COVID-19 case numbers begin to seriously test their efforts to keep NSW’s jails virus-free, with

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COVID-19, Healthcare News, Hospitals
COVID -19 Update: NSW recorded 452 new locally acquired cases
Lourdes Antenor Aug 17, 2021

NSW recorded 452 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8 pm last night. Of these locally acquired cases, 129 are

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update
COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
COVID-19 Update: NSW records 390 new locally acquired cases
Lourdes Antenor Aug 13, 2021

NSW recorded 390 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8 pm last night. Of these locally acquired cases, 140 are

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port workers
COVID-19, Healthcare News, Hospitals
No urgency on vaccination of port workers
Lourdes Antenor Aug 11, 2021

The Government needs to explain why it hasn’t acted sooner to increase the uptake of vaccinations against Covid-19 at our ports and for port workers,

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COVID-19, Healthcare News
COVID-19 Update: NSW recorded 344 new locally acquired cases
Lourdes Antenor Aug 11, 2021

NSW recorded 344 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8 pm last night. Of these locally acquired cases, 115 are

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