Prevention of COVID-19 by legislation and guidelines is largely unsupported by evidence and appears to rely on Rules of Thumb in infection control procedures in healthcare.
Crisis management
A COVID-19 vaccine is closer, but there will be major problems getting people to use it, particularly in a world of misinformation.
COVID-19 – Vaccine
This blog is not intended as advice. It is for educational and research purposes only. Read this disclaimer first if you want to read this post. The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC) is the “key decision making committee for health emergencies. It is comprised of all state and territory […]
COVID-19 Missing in action – AHPPC. The eye of the ...
This blog is not intended as advice. It is for educational and research purposes only. Read this disclaimer first if you want to read this post. Australia and New Zealand are both island states but well connected to the world with airlines and shipping. Many of the COVID-19 cases in […]
COVID-19 Deaths AU, US, NZ and UK
Home made face masks may not give the desired protection against COVID-19
COVID-19 Homemade Face Masks
Elsevier are to be congratulated for making COVID-19 research freely available in an easy to access website. The impact is global.
COVID-19 Publishers are making access to COVID-19 research free
This blog is not intended as advice. It is for educational and research purposes only. Read this disclaimer first if you want to read this post. While supermarkets like Woolworths and Coles try to limit people in stores, an obvious thing is to allow and encourage 24 hour trading. Ditto […]
COVID-19 Trading Hours 24/7 for supermarkets?
This blog is not intended as advice. It is for educational and research purposes only. Read this disclaimer first if you want to read this post. Some people are now proudly boasting they are now washing their hands 40 times a day. Though the skin is an amazing barrier to […]
COVID-19 Skin care
One of the best gems I heard was linked from the ABC News website. It was a talk on 6 March 2020 Controlling Coronavirus in Australian with WHO Expert Dr Bruce Aylward to an audience of Australian health professionals. One of the important messages was the aggregation of COVID-19 cases […]
COVID-19 Queensland Hospitals
This blog is not intended as advice. It is for educational and research purposes only. Read this disclaimer first if you want to read this post. We continue to get placations from our politicians that things under control. This is a lie. Prepare for the worst. Sorry. Johns Hopkins University […]