Doctors, nurses and other hospital staff are being forced to work in unsafe working conditions and feel they are being put at risk of catching COVID-19. The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers reported today that access to masks ...

Aged care residents died at three times the normal rate in the UK during the COVID-19 peak in April, according to official government statistics. On April 12, 1300 people died in care homes in comparison with 407 the previous year ...

Scientists from around the world are pushing for recognition that it is possible COVID-19 can spread through airborne transmission. In an open letter, 239 experts from a range of science and engineering fields, including virology, aerosol physics and medicine, appealed ...

This week on The Coronavirus Podcast, host Conor Burke is joined by Professor Michael Ward from the University of Sydney. Michael led a study which posits that COVID-19 may become a seasonal virus, much like the common cold or flu. ...

Bryan Cranston hopes the horrific death of his sister, allegedly at the hands of her estranged husband, will encourage others to reach out for help. Hundreds of people have joined a virtual vigil for Rockhampton nurse Karen Gilliland, who died ...

Have you ever experienced COVID-rage? That is, anger brought on by social distancing or the lack thereof. Like when you go to the shop or a cafe and people seem to have totally forgotten about social distancing and stand right ...

Sunday saw a grim milestone reached as global cases of COVID-19 hit 10 million according to data from Johns Hopkins University. This comes as the WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns the end is not in sight and numbers in ...

Just under 14,000 New Zealanders have signed a petition calling for an end to the pay disparity between the country’s registered nurses who work in aged care and their counterparts in public hospitals. “Registered nurses who work in aged care ...

While the COVID-19 pandemic has driven millions of people inside, many jobs in healthcare have not had that luxury. And as health professionals kept calm and carried on, so too did nursing schools across the nation as graduating the current ...

This week host Conor Burke speaks to an infectious disease specialist. Along with virologists, epidemiologists and a few other 'ists', academics who have informed us about the specifics of the coronavirus have become the rockstars of science. Associate Professor Sanjaya ...