A new study published in the Lancet has found that people who have recovered from COVID-19 tend to score significantly lower on an intelligence test than those who have not contracted COVID-19. Cognitive underperformance was also associated with illness severity, with those hospitalized on a ventilator performing worse.
Epidemiologist Professor Adrian Esterman from the University of South Australia has said NSW lockdown strategy “is simply not working.” NSW recorded 163 new cases on Saturday, 141 on Sunday, and 145 on Monday, with the five-day moving average still going up. Prof Esterman explained, “Clearly, it is either not hard enough, or there are too many Sydneysiders not complying with lockdown.”
“Young people shouldn’t think they’re at no risk or even minimal risks. Because it’s going to kill.” Nobel Prize winner and infection expert Professor Peter Doherty has warned young Australians that they are at considerable risk of serious infection with the Delta COVID-19 strain. This follows the tragic death of a woman in Sydney in her 30s over the weekend, who had no pre-existing conditions.
Snoring is common, affecting about 57% of adult men and 40% of adult women. Although you may not think of it as a problem, snoring is often linked to health problems - such as obstructive sleep apnea - and could also be disrupting the quality of sleep of your partner. Here are 10 ways you can reduce your snoring:
A poor night’s sleep can easily spiral into an unproductive day. Here are 8 steps sleep experts recommend that can help you bounce back to efficiency.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Wednesday that by October, Australians should have access to an internationally-recognised vaccination certificate on their smartphone to help reopen international travel. The Australian government is looking to launch a ‘digital health’ smartphone app to store the certificates, along with COVID-19 test results, and other important health information such as yellow fever immunisations, allergy alerts, and organ donor status.
Governments around the world have all realised that COVID-19 disproportionately affects people of colour from cultural minorities. However, Australia is lacking clear data on how COVID-19 is affecting different ethnic groups. Professor of Sociology, Andrew Jakubowicz, believes gathering this ethnicity data during COVID-19 testing could help us get on top of the current outbreak.
New modelling from the Populations Intervention Unit at the University of Melbourne has shown that it could take until the first week of September for the Sydney lockdown to end. With Stage 4 restrictions now in place, the model shows we would drop below 5 cases a day by September 4.
New research from India’s second wave shows that our COVID-19 vaccines are effectively curbing deaths and hospitalisations for the Delta strain. A new study led by the Indian Council of Medical Research’s Nivedita Gupta shows that amongst patients infected after vaccination, only 0.4% died from COVID-19, with 10% needing hospitalization. 86% of these ‘breakthrough’ cases amongst vaccinated persons were caused by the delta variant.
