• COVID-19: the need for an Australian Economic Pandemic Response Plan 

      Higginson, Shannen; Milovanovic, Katarina; Gillespie, James; Matthews, Andrew; Williams, Christopher; Wall, Laura; Moy, Naomi; Hinwood, Madeline; Melia, Adrian; Paolucci, Francesco
      Published 2020
      OBJECTIVES: 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 ...
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    • Clinical research during coronavirus disease pandemic: Challenges and way forward 

      Panda, Pankaj Kumar; Stockler, Martin R; Gulia, Ashish
      Published 2020
      With 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 ...
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    • Understanding Ethical and Legal Obligations in a Pandemic: A Taxonomy of “Duty” for Health Practitioners 

      Sheahan, Linda; Lamont, Scott
      Published 2020
      From 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, ...
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    • Analytical validity of nanopore sequencing for rapid SARS-CoV-2 genome analysis 

      Bull, Rowena A.; Adikari, Thiruni; Hammond, Jillian M.; Stevanovski, Igor; Ferguson, James M.; Beukers, Alicia G.; Naing, Zin; Yeang, Malinna; Verich, Andrey; Gamaarachichi, Hasindu; Kim, Ki Wook; Luciani, Fabio; Stelzer-Braid, Sacha; Eden, John-Sebastian; Rawlinson, William D.; van Hal, Sebastiaan J.; Deveson, Ira W.
      Published 2020
      ABSTRACT 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 ...
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    • Host age shapes virome abundance and diversity in birds 

      Wille, Michelle; Shi, Mang; Hurt, Aeron C.; Klaassen, Marcel; Holmes, Edward C.
      Published 2020
      Abstract 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 ...
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