At a time when cruise ships are becoming writ large as heaving leviathans of deadly contagion, one couple in New Zealand has just put on the market a new venture to place the most vulnerable age group on board. Elysium ...
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What happens if nurses stop showing up to work?
What happens if this pandemic gets worse? What if it got so bad that healthcare workers, doctors and nurses all walked off the job? While the Australian healthcare system has been stretched by the COVID-19 crisis, it has yet to ...
More »Australian death toll now at 45, 41 aged care residents across the nation test positive for COVID-19
More deaths confirmed over Sunday and Monday takes the nation’s COVID-19 death toll to 45, with a reported 5,844 cases nationwide. In a daily press conference, NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian warned that: "no matter was restrictions there are in the ...
More »Nurse who celebrates 50 years on the job this year shares her story
Lyn McBain will celebrate 50 years as a nurse in this, The World Health Organization's Year of the Nurse. Leaving school as a fifteen-year-old and working as a registered nurse across brain injuries, aged, disability, palliative and rehabilitation care, Lyn ...
More »If you love health workers and you know it clap your hands: UK ‘Clap for our Carers’ to show appreciation
Health workers are being embraced in different ways around the globe as they put their lives on the line at a time when most of us are safely locking down and isolating. We have seen images of volunteers bringing food ...
More »COVID-19: How it happened
We take a look at how the global pandemic began, how it spread, and how countries responded. The COVID-19 pandemic came to light on 31 December 2019 with an alert to the WHO China office, and the speed with which ...
More »Tuberculosis vaccine to be given to healthcare workers in fight against COVID-19
Australian infectious disease researchers are trialling a vaccine against COVID-19 on healthcare workers. Professor Kathryn North, director of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), today announced the multi-centre randomised controlled clinical trial of a tuberculosis vaccine to test whether it ...
More »Norm’s story: Biography service helps palliative patients reflect
Norman wasn’t having a bar of it. Talk to a stranger about his life? No way. What did he want to tell someone all of his secrets for? "My life is very boring," he told his wife of 25 years, ...
More »Pandemic highlights need for planning and protection: opinion
The global COVID-19 pandemic has widespread and insidious consequences that in many instances go beyond personal health and the ramifications of which may not yet be fully known. For some the impact may be as minor as struggling to buy ...
More »Nurses among 14 COVID-19 cases at medical centre in Japan
Two nurses at a medical centre in Japan’s Oita prefecture have tested positive to COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases at the facility to 14, Kyodo newswire says. The nurses who work at the Oita Medical Centre, one in ...
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