Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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Lessons learnt during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Why Australian schools should be prioritised to stay open
Published 2021In 2020, school and early childhood educational centre (ECEC) closures affected over 1.5 billion school-aged children globally as part of the COVID-19 pandemic response. Attendance at school and access to ECEC is critical ...Article -
COVID-19 and Coronary Heart Disease
Published 2021Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of mortality worldwide. One of the main contributions of mortality and morbidity in CHD patients is acute myocardial infarction (AMI), which is the result of abrupt occlusion ...Article -
A Prospective Clinical Evaluation of a Patient Isolation Hood During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published 2021BACKGROUND: Healthcare workers (HCWs) have frequently become infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 whilst treating patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). A variety of novel devices have ...Article -
Carrageenan nasal spray may double the rate of recovery from coronavirus and influenza virus infections: Re‐analysis of randomized trial data
Published 2021In this individual patient data meta-analysis we examined datasets of two randomized placebo-controlled trials which investigated the effect of nasal carrageenan separately on children and adults. In both trials, ...Article -
Ethics Guidance for Environmental Scientists Engaged in Surveillance of Wastewater for SARS-CoV-2.
Published 2021The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to rapid and widespread international pursuit of wastewater surveillance for genetic signals of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing the pandemic. Environmental scientists and engineers familiar ...Article