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More than a third of care residents who have contracted COVID-19 have died.[1] That’s more than 36 times higher than the rest of Australia’s population.If COVID-19 was tearing through schools or workplaces in such numbers there would be uproar and a call for ...

Australians want frontline nurses, paramedics, and aged care and disability workers to be first in line to receive a COVID-19 vaccine jab. That was one of the findings of an Australian National University survey that sought out attitudes of more ...

Nurses, doctors, psychologists and dietitians are among the healthcare workers calling on government to recognise climate change in the National Preventive Health Strategy. They were among the dozens of health groups that signed a joint statement calling on Minister for ...

Secretary of the Department of Health Brendan Murphy believes the aged care system needs a “fundamental reset”. Murphy, who was Australia’s chief health officer when COVID-19 hit Australia, was responding to a question posed to him at the Royal Commission ...

Scientists around the globe celebrated news the University of Oxford would restart the trial for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, but some called for more transparency surrounding the pause while others backed the decision to not detail the illness that prompted ...

Former Prime Minister Paul Keating has told the aged care royal commission it should consider recommending a HECS-style loan for older Australians to pay for their care. At today's hearing, Keating said the approach was superior to a pre-funding model, ...

To date, many Australians who have died from COVID-19 have died alone and many others have missed out on visiting dying loved ones, but two Deakin University experts say it doesn’t have to be this way. Writing for The Conversation, ...

The Senate on Thursday censured Minister for Aged Care Richard Colbeck for failing to recall “the most basic and tragic facts” about aged care deaths during the pandemic – a move Prime Minister Scott Morrison has shrugged off. In August, ...

Australians will get free access to a COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 under a $1.7 billion supply and production agreement between government and pharmaceutical companies. Under the agreement, the University of Oxford-AstraZeneca and the University of Queensland-CSL will provide more than ...

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) wants Australia to quickly develop a national plan to distribute COVID-19 vaccination. AMA president Dr Omar Khorshid said it was pleasing to see that efforts of the medical and scientific community to fast track a ...