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Pandemic lives

13 December 2022

  • Santa Claus and Mrs Claus hand out gifts at the Rev Bill Crews Foundation Christmas lunch in Sydney, 2021

    How to Covid-proof your Christmas

    Prof Sharon Lewin of the Doherty Institute answers your questions about how to best avoid getting and spreading coronavirus during the festive season

18 July 2022

  • Jack Featherstone in his residential aged care room where he paints with a safety pin in time to classical music at Braidwood Multipurpose Service in Braidwood, NSW, Australia

    How are we caring for older Australians in the winter Covid wave?

    Reporter Christopher Knaus explains to Jane Lee why aged care homes are still struggling in the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic.

31 October 2021

  • MRSA resistant Staphylococcus bacteria<br>MRSA: resistant Staphylococcus bacteria. Coloured transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a deadly cluster of MRSA Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. Strains of MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylo- coccus aureus) bacteria are resistant to most antibiotic drug agents; some yield to vancomycin. It is a Gram-positive spherical (coccus) bacteria. Here, some bacteria are seen dividing. MRSA is common in hospitals, infecting wounds of patients. S.aureus may cause boils, usually by entering the skin through a hair follicle or a cut. They are also responsible for internal abscesses and most types of acute suppurative infection. Magnification: x24, 000 at 6x4.5cm size.

    Superbugs – the next big human health threat?

    Science writer Donna Lu talks to Laura Murphy-Oates about superbugs and the risk they pose to human health

6 October 2021

  • Haematologist Dr Vivien Chen

    How Australian doctors reduced vaccine-linked blood clot deaths

    Medical editor Melissa Davey explains how a team of specialists including Dr Vivien Chen drastically reduced deaths from TTS

25 September 2021

  • Leesa Lambert, co-Owner of the worlds oldest childrens bookstore, The Little Bookroom. Photograph by Christopher Hopkins for The Guardian

    Voices from Australia’s Covid frontline: the shop owner and the customer

    A children’s book seller and a mother of two have developed a strong sense of community during Melbourne’s long stretches in lockdown

15 September 2021

  • Fourteen-year-old Mikaela Gonzalez receives a piano lesson via Zoom at her home in Brisbane

    The families hit hardest by remote learning

    Many parents have struggled to help their children get through the school year at home, in and out of lockdowns. Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to one family doing it tougher than most

13 September 2021

  • Construction worker Elmedin Begic, Hutchinsons Builders. Voices from the epicentre

    Voices from Australia’s Covid frontline: the construction worker and the delivery driver

    Elmedin and Nass are grateful not to be stuck at home like so many others, but they can’t wait to get back to some normality

6 September 2021

  • Evie Younan, receptionist at Concord Medical Centre, Concord, NSW. Voices from the Epicentre.

    Voices from Australia’s Covid frontline: the medical receptionist and the family doctor

    As Evie and Vivek can attest, general healthcare needs don’t change in a pandemic. We all still need to see a GP now and then

2 September 2021

  • Voices from epicentre. Chris Yoman, store manager at Woolworths, Fairfield Heights

    Voices from Australia’s Covid frontline: the store manager and the postie

    Chris and Jackson feel grateful to be working during lockdown, enjoy their interaction with customers and take pride in providing an essential service

31 August 2021

  • Childcare supervisor Kaitlyn Lonard

    Voices from Australia’s Covid frontline: the childcare worker and the pharmacist

    Voices from Australia’s Covid frontline: the childcare worker and the pharmacist

26 August 2021

  • Amber Francis

    Voices from Australia’s Covid frontline: the cafe worker and the Uber driver

    Both Amber and Nkosi worry about interacting with customers and doing the right thing, but for the driver, the lack of work adds extra pressure

24 August 2021

  • Solange Obeid a radiographer at Sydney’s St Vincent’s hospital

    Voices from Australia’s Covid frontline: the health worker and the school leader

    In a new series, people in a range of circumstances tell us what life in the pandemic is like for them, how they cope and their hopes for the future
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