Professor Allen Cheng, Professor of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University has answered the following questions. On immunity / immunology Can we please have some commentary on herd immunity + the coronavirus? It’s a big issue in the UK. “It (herd Immunity) is
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Wildcare continues care, feeding for fire-affected animals
You can help SINCE CHRISTMAS, WILDCARE, with the help of many affected property owners, and community volunteers, such as the Southern Tablelands 4WD Club, have been delivering essential food — grass, hay, pellets, bird seed, fruit/vegetables and ‘browse’ (native tree and shrub cuttings) — to known surviving animals, whose habitat has
Sometimes I need sleeping pills. Why can‘t I ask for them?
Doctors shouldn’t be consigning their patients to one kind of hell in order to avoid another SOMETIMES I CAN’T sleep. I have nightmares. I’m woken by the sound of a slurred shout before I realise I’m making it, then toss around in increasingly frustrated rearrangements of sheets and limbs until 5am. Bad
Here’s why eating the same thing every day is a bad idea
Cooma artist Natalie Power — ‘Eclectic’ exhibition ends 29 March
NATALIE POWER SAYS she is a painter because she has to be. “It’s a compulsion”, she says. And visiting her heritage-listed home, it’s clear that it’s a very productive compulsion. Every vertical surface — the walls, the chairs, the sofa — has canvases lying, leaning, propped up, overlapping — against it. Nat’s
We hadn’t thought of that: how to avoid bushfires
(and maybe make a stock market killing) Our friends in Northern California sent this report of their local electricity supplier’s ingenious method to guard against bushfires caused by downed or carelessly placed power lines. “We went all summer with no major fires locally (a great thing). Of course, this may have been
Mike Kelly cuts through on how we move ahead on climate change, fires and our country
What spoil sports we are for the Festive Season!
Greta Thunberg’s La Vagabonde voyage
How an Aussie family meet the girl behind a climate movement By Briana Shepherd, ABC News THE AUSTRALIAN COUPLE who sailed Greta Thunberg across the Atlantic for the UN COP25 climate summit say people would be shocked to see how human and vulnerable the teen climate activist is. ABOVE: Riley Whitelum, Nikki Henderson,
Aged-care royal commission has had a third of the coverage of banks‘ bad behaviour
It doesn’t add up “A sad and shocking system that diminishes Australia as a nation”. “Inhumane, abusive and unjustified”. “Cruel and discriminating”. After 10 months of hearings and investigations into aged care, Commissioners Lynelle Briggs and the late Richard Tracy listed the most shocking findings in their interim report on Thursday: death from septicaemia