Vaccinations

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 02: Members of the public line up outside a walk in COVID testing clinic in Brunswick on July 02, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. The clinic was set up by the Royal Melbourne Hospital on short notice in the football club rooms at A.G. Gillen Oval. Lockdowns across Melbourne have come into effect for residents of suburbs identified as COVID-19 hotspots following a spike in new coronavirus cases through community transmission. From midnight Wednesday 1 July, residents of 10 postcodes will only be able to leave home have for exercise or work, to buy essential items including food or to access childcare and healthcare. Businesses and facilities in these lockdown areas will also be restricted and cafes and restaurants can only open for take-away and delivery. The restrictions will remain in place until at least 29 July. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

Vaccine Hunger Games: Who gets it?

When a vaccine arrives, there won’t be enough to go around. The elderly are most vulnerable, but a life saved is relatively short. The young may not need it. Hard choices are coming.

Steven Schwartz

CommentaryThe Wall Street Journal

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 17: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern looks on during a press conference at Parliament on June 17, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. After 24 days without an active case in the country, two new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in New Zealand on Tuesday. The new cases are two people who had been given a compassionate exemption to leave managed isolation to attend a funeral. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Nobody really knew what steps to take

New Zealand’s strategy of sealing itself off was just as accidental as the US’s more chaotic policy and may prove a colossal blunder if a vaccine doesn’t arrive.

Holman Jenkins

CUT & PASTECut & Paste

Furphy vaccines enough to make everybody sick

At least one virus hoax has killed hundreds — drinking bootleg liquor is not recommended.

COMMENTARYEconomics

A 'for rent' sign is seen outside a house in Canberra, Thursday, May 17, 2018. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Why the banks are frightened

Australian banks are seeing a very different future to optimistic bounceback envisaged by the sharemarket.

Robert Gottliebsen

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(FILES) This file photo taken on April 29, 2020, shows an engineer working at the Quality Control Laboratory on an experimental vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus at the Sinovac Biotech facilities in Beijing. - Sinovac Biotech is conducting one of the five clinical trials of potential vaccines that have been authorised in China. China would make any coronavirus vaccine it developed a "global public good" once it was put into use, President Xi Jinping told the World Health Assembly on May 18, 2020. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP)

Aussie volunteers step up for vaccine trial

Hopes rise that vaccine could be available within a year as Brisbane, Melbourne volunteers take part in Australia’s first human clinical trials.

Natasha Robinson

Nation

Police officers detain a man as protesters gather outside Parliament House in Melbourne, Sunday, May 10, 2020. Anti-vaxxers and Victorians fed up with the coronavirus lockdown have broken social distancing rules to protest in Melbourne's CBD on Mother's Day. (AAP Image/Scott Barbour) NO ARCHIVING

Liberties, vaccinations mix at street rally

A police officer was taken to hospital and 10 people were arrested at an anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne on Sunday.

Rachel Baxendale and LACHLAN MOFFET GRAY

CommentaryThe Wall Street Journal

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 07: Chinese commuters wear protective masks as they line-up and wait to board a public bus home in the central business district during rush hour on April 7, 2020 in Beijing, China. China recorded for the first time since January 21st no coronavirus-related deaths. With the pandemic hitting hard across the world, officially the number of coronavirus cases in China is dwindling, ever since the government imposed sweeping measures to keep the disease from spreading. For more than two months, millions of people across China have been restricted in how they move from their homes, while other cities have been locked down in ways that appeared severe at the time but are now being replicated in other countries trying to contain the virus. Officials believe the worst appears to be over in China, though there are concerns of another wave of infections as the government attempts to reboot the worlds second largest economy. In Beijing, it is mandatory to wear masks outdoors, some retail stores still operate on reduced hours, restaurants employ social distancing among patrons, and tourist attractions at risk of drawing large crowds remain closed or allow only limited access. Monitoring and enforcement of virus-related measures and the quarantine of anyone arriving to Beijing is carried out by neighborhood committees and a network of Communist Party volunteers who wear red arm bands. Since January, China has recorded more than 81,000 cases of COVID-19 and at least 3200 deaths, mostly in and around the city of Wuhan, in central Hubei province, where the outbreak first started. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

The lockdown Catch-22 we need to confront

Your coronavirus crib sheet: how we got here, where we’re going, and the fundamental question — how can any society lift its stay-at-home order if there’s no vaccine?

Holman W Jenkins Jr

WORLD COMMENTARYWorld