COVID-19
Annual COVID boosters likely for years to come: ATAGI
Australian adults will have the option to receive a fifth dose of a COVID-19 vaccine later this month, and it is unlikely to be the last they will be offered. …
World Pharmacy Council makes vaccination pitch
Community pharmacists should be authorised and funded to provide immunisations for all vaccine-preventable diseases, the World Pharmacy Council (WPC) believes. In its Vaccination services in community pharmacies report the …
Guild shifts election cycle
Changes to the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s constitution were made late last year and will extend the organisation’s election cycle to four years. The amendments lodged with the Fair Work …
We’re entering a new phase of COVID
We each have to assess and mitigate our own risk. But how? asks Hassan Vally, Deakin University The Australian government’s latest COVID management plan, released yesterday [12.12.22], maps how the …
Aussies too relaxed on COVID: experts
As COVID cases rise again, new research shows a third of Australians are now less likely to test if they have symptoms A leading pharmacist says that as many eligible …
Next steps on bivalents as Omicron strains take hold
Millions of Pfizer’s Omicron bivalent vaccines are on the way as Health Minister announces date they will start being administered More than four million doses of Pfizer’s bivalent vaccine targeting …
Poll: Did you experience burnout during the pandemic?
Are you a pharmacist who was affected by the pandemic, or was it “business as usual” for you? The AJP recently covered an Australian study that explored contrasting experiences of …
‘There has been no recovery, no reprieve.’
Community pharmacists at higher risk of burnout with increased workload and overtime work, rude patients, emotional exhaustion and lack of PPE, study finds An Australian study has explored contrasting experiences …
If you think scrapping COVID isolation periods will get us back to work and past the pandemic…
… then it’s time to think again, write C Raina MacIntyre, UNSW Sydney; Brendan Crabb, Burnet Institute; and Nancy Baxter, the University of Melbourne COVID is an exceptional disease and …
Can we solve the Covid booster shortfall?
Millions of Australians still haven’t had their COVID boosters. What message could convince them now? The Halton independent review of Australia’s COVID vaccine and treatment procurement has been handed to the …
I’ve had COVID and am constantly getting colds…
Did COVID harm my immune system? Am I now at risk of other infectious diseases? Lara Herrero from Griffith University investigates So you’ve had COVID and have now recovered. You …
Focus on long COVID
How researchers are zeroing in on the self-targeted immune attacks that may lurk behind it, writes Matthew Woodruff, Emory University For almost three years, scientists have raced to understand the …