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Viruses, vaccinations and me

Have you had Covid? I’m not sure if I have. Twice since the end of 2019 I’ve had something that might have been Covid, but I don’t really know. The first time was after Christmas 2019. We were in Sweden and had to return to Australia in a hurry to deal with a family crisis. We caught a long, hard, crowded flight via Hong Kong and were surprised at Hong Kong airport when staff there – kitted out with masks and looking very stern – were pointing long-range thermometers at us as we trooped through the…

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Covid-19: bring on effective treatments

AS far as the Covid pandemic is concerned, what I’m wishing for most of all is a major breakthrough in treatment. Something that will nullify the virus and prevent whatever over-reactive immune responses cause the worst effects in those susceptible. Ideally, like the treatment being explored by the Doherty Institute in Australia, it will be adaptable to deal with variants and with similar viruses that might erupt in future. I particularly want this to happen because: A) it will save lives and let society get back to ‘normal’, and B) it will mean (I hope) that…

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Back to flattening the curve

This round of Covid-19 has got me thinking about how things were when it began. When we speculated - wrongly - that the virus was easily transmissible from surfaces, that the early strain was extremely contagious and that it might take years to find a vaccine. Back then all the talk was of "flattening the curve", which meant we assumed most of us were going to be exposed to the virus but we hoped that by being careful we could keep the numbers of infected people from skyrocketing all at once. Our goal was to stop…

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