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How a chat over a glass of wine turned into a $250 million research fund for Melbourne
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How a chat over a glass of wine turned into a $250 million research fund for Melbourne

The inside story of how a Canadian businessman donated $250 million to fund a pandemic research centre in Melbourne.

  • by Sumeyya Ilanbey

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‘Short and sharp’ lessons: Experts to examine how Australia handled pandemic

‘Short and sharp’ lessons: Experts to examine how Australia handled pandemic

In the absence of a government review into the COVID-19 response, a trio of philanthropic groups has stepped up with an expert panel.

  • by Katina Curtis
Gremlin or Grinch? In a Melbourne lab, Omicron grows in a test tube

Gremlin or Grinch? In a Melbourne lab, Omicron grows in a test tube

“It doesn’t happen by magic.” Peering through a microscope in her laboratory at the Doherty Institute, Professor Deborah Williamson saw the glowing orb for the first time.

  • by Timna Jacks
‘Test to stay’: COVID screening before school could replace class quarantine

‘Test to stay’: COVID screening before school could replace class quarantine

New Doherty Institute modelling shows rapid antigen tests for students before their school day works just as well as quarantining an entire class.

  • by Rachel Clun
COVID-19 will remain a ‘fire’ fought on multiple fronts, Doherty Institute says

COVID-19 will remain a ‘fire’ fought on multiple fronts, Doherty Institute says

Mask-wearing will remain indefinitely in some settings as experts predict strict lockdowns will not protect COVID-free parts of the country from the pandemic forever.

  • by Rachel Clun
Delta more deadly than national plan assumes

Delta more deadly than national plan assumes

The research team whose work underpins Australia’s pandemic exit strategy believes the Delta strain of the virus is significantly more deadly than they assumed when the national plan was adopted.

  • by Chip Le Grand
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Reopening, resistance and the long tail of ‘zero COVID’

Reopening, resistance and the long tail of ‘zero COVID’

Extreme positions on COVID-19 are still being staked out in the medical establishment, the academy and parts of the media.

  • by Michael Koziol
COVID safety rating system floated amid warnings of reopening risks

COVID safety rating system floated amid warnings of reopening risks

A leading infectious diseases expert has suggested businesses should be subject to a star rating system based on the vaccination rates of staff and other COVID-19 safety practices so that consumers can have the confidence to enter premises once lockdowns end.

  • by Emma Koehn
Home testing key to living with COVID, but Australia a two-tier country: Doherty Institute

Home testing key to living with COVID, but Australia a two-tier country: Doherty Institute

Twenty months into the pandemic, the advances have been incredible - but the head of the Doherty Institute says there will be more challenges around the corner.

  • by Rachel Clun
‘A fine line between too weak and too strong’: Labor grapples with a policy to open up

‘A fine line between too weak and too strong’: Labor grapples with a policy to open up

The next few months promise to be difficult for the federal Labor opposition as it tries to balance political support for the plan to re-open Australia with some ALP state premiers reluctant to budge.

  • by James Massola and Michael Koziol
Learning to live with COVID? Read the fine print first

Learning to live with COVID? Read the fine print first

The Doherty Institute modelling does not guarantee an end to lockdowns, only that they will be “unlikely” once vaccination thresholds are reached.

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