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Yes, You Should Be Getting the Flu Vaccine This Year
After having low rates of influenza (flu) transmission in recent years thanks to our COVID control strategies, case numbers are now rising. So far this year, Australia has had more than 32,000 lab-confirmed cases of the flu and 32 deaths. Getting a flu vaccine is the best way to protect against getting the flu. These…
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Are Flu Cases Already 100 Times Higher Than Last Year? Here’s What We Know About the 2023 Flu Season
Alarming headlines and media coverage have said we’ve had 100 times as many influenza cases in the first two months of 2023 compared with the same time the previous year. The coverage suggested we’re in for a bumper flu season, starting early and your best protection was to get a flu vaccine, when available. But…
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Cases Are High and Winter Is Coming, We Need to Stop Ignoring COVID
In a poll conducted by the Guardian in August of 2021 about the number of deaths Australians would be willing to accept as restrictions eased, only 3% of respondents felt that 5,000 or more COVID-related deaths per year would be acceptable. Sadly we have surpassed that milestone in the first four months of this year…
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6 Common Cold Myths, Busted by Experts
As we return to pre-lockdown levels of social mixing, colds are starting to become all too common. A TikTok video has gone viral involving putting garlic up your nose as a cold cure, just one in a long line of claimed treatments or cures. We asked two experts to examine some commonly held beliefs around…