Scientists have produced evidence that the pandemic virus is 'uniquely adapted to infect humans', raising fresh questions over whether its origins were natural or could have occurred in a laboratory.
Where did the Coronavirus 19 Originate from? and anything relative to the virus.
Where did the Coronavirus 19 originate from? and anything relative to the virus.
Coronavirus is 'uniquely adapted to infect humans': Top vaccine scientist says it could only have come from an animal through a 'freak of nature' - and the possibility it leaked from Wuhan lab MUST be investigated
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Juliane Samara is an award-winning Australian nurse practitioner who specialises in oncology and palliative aged care.
As Omicron emerged and was dubbed a “milder” version of the virus, Covid-19 restrictions in the general community began to ease. In December 2021 we were urged by the then prime minister Scott Morrison to “live with the virus”. The outbreaks in residential aged care facilities began to increase exponentially. The deaths of older people in aged care began to rise. Who noticed?
Life in 2022 (for those who don’t work in healthcare) has largely returned to normal, however Covid-19 outbreaks in residential aged care have been a constant reality. Across Australia, more than 3,000 people living in residential aged care have died with Covid-19 this year. This is three times more than in the first two years of the pandemic.
Where is the action from the government which promised us aged care reform? What advice are the chief health officers giving to national cabinet, and is it being followed?
Face masks are still required for everyone visiting a healthcare setting, residential aged care and disability accommodation and when outside of your home if you have a temperature of 37.5 degrees or higher, you have COVID-19 symptoms or you are awaiting a PCR test result.
Last Friday, Queensland recorded 183 people in hospital with COVID, including nine people in ICU. There were 10,009 new cases of COVID reported in the latest reporting period.
Mr Mawer passed away "peacefully" in his sleep in his Central Tilba home on Saturday afternoon on the NSW South Coast.
""He lived life to the full even in recent months. He insisted on sitting up for meals, he did his exercises every day and had plenty of visitors."
Mr Mawer, who celebrated his 110th birthday on August 15, took the title of Australia's oldest man in July last year after the passing of a Queensland man Dexter Kruger.
Born in 1912, Frank married his sweetheart Elizabeth, an Irish immigrant, in 1939. Elizabeth passed away in 2011 at the age of 92 after more than 70 years married to Mr Mawer. They raised six children. The extended family includes 13 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren.
Internationally, there is growing hope of a light at the end of the tunnel. The World Health Organization has said the end of the pandemic is in sight. Experts are optimistic increased immunity and new vaccines will put the country in good stead in months to come, but have warned against complacency. Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has warned that "peaks and troughs" of the virus and its variants would continue saying a new "lower and slower" wave could come before the end of the year.
Fears of a new immune evasive COVID variant is creating the perfect storm for a devastating global wave.
What can we do to protect ourselves against the pandemic??
