Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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COVID-19: the need for an Australian Economic Pandemic Response Plan
Published 2020OBJECTIVES: Pandemics pressure national governments to respond swiftly. Mitigation efforts created an imbalance between population health, capacity of the healthcare system and economic prosperity. Each pandemic arising ...Article -
Clinical research during coronavirus disease pandemic: Challenges and way forward
Published 2020With the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) being declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization, the Indian health-care sector is at the forefront to deliver optimal care but with constrained resources and ...Article -
Understanding Ethical and Legal Obligations in a Pandemic: A Taxonomy of “Duty” for Health Practitioners
Published 2020From the ethics perspective, “duty of care” is a difficult and contested term, fraught with misconceptions and apparent misappropriations. However, it is a term that clinicians use frequently as they navigate COVID-19, ...Article -
Analytical validity of nanopore sequencing for rapid SARS-CoV-2 genome analysis
Published 2020ABSTRACT Viral whole-genome sequencing (WGS) provides critical insight into the transmission and evolution of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Long-read sequencing devices from Oxford Nanopore ...Preprint -
Host age shapes virome abundance and diversity in birds
Published 2020Abstract Host age influences the ecology of many microorganisms. This is evident in one-host – one virus systems, such as influenza A virus in Mallards, but also in community studies of parasites and microbiomes. We used ...Preprint