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Prof Kathy Eagar

3 months

@age_no_barrier Thank you, I’m delighted to be recognised with this honour. Being able to use research evidence to advocate for better health and aged care is a real privilege at this stage of my life @hsraanz @CroakeyNews @sally_stevensxn @UNSWMedicine @pacop_uow @uowaroc @ePPOC_UOW

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

The eugenic undertone surrounding COVID policy has really shocked me. It has challenged my views of us as a society. Public health policy is now based on survival of the fittest. Those who don’t make it are dismissed as dry kindling. I really thought we were better than that

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

No pandemic in human history ever ended because we all decided we were over it and it was time to move on. What is the COVID endgame?

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@k_eagar

2 years

We have had more COVID deaths in the first 20 days of 2023 than we had in the whole of 2020. Our death toll in 2023 is 1,063 deaths in just 20 days. A person dies of COVID every 27 minutes. Our current COVID containment strategy is not working

Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

Wake up Australia. Someone is dying of COVID every 27 minutes. 1,063 COVID deaths in the 1st 20 days of 2023. Thanks @covidliveau for keeping us informed about the 2,300 in hospital & the 380 who died this week. Why are government, public health officials & mainstream media MIA?

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

1 year

Experts, please add to this list. Infectious diseases that are nearly all mild initially but can have devastating impacts years or decades later: HIV ➡️ AIDS Glandular fever ➡️ Multiple Sclerosis Chickenpox ➡️ shingles Polio ➡️ post-polio syndrome 👇

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

Healthy 2 month old & a healthy 2 yo have died in NSW of COVID. If they'd died of rare cancer, we'd be holding fundraisers for research on how to prevent the same tragic outcome in other children. Now we just dismiss these deaths as COVID, so mild there's nothing to worry about

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

3 years

19 people in Australia died of COVID yesterday. They hardly rated a mention in the media. We have become desensitised to COVID deaths. This diminishes us as a society. @AHSRI_UOW @abcnews @smh @theage @UOW @PCOCPallCare @ANZSPM @drleeroyw @PCACEO

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

COVID weekly report: Australia is now having one COVID death every 26 minutes. This in a population of 26m. 1,799 deaths reported in the 1st 34 days of 2023. This compares to 910 COVID deaths in the whole of 2020 & 1,319 COVID deaths in 2021 @abcnews @abc730 @CroakeyNews

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

Australia had 324 COVID deaths in the last 7 days after 308 deaths the week before. The Aust road toll for 2021 was 1,133 deaths. The annual road toll is now equivalent to 3 weeks of COVID deaths. Have we become so indifferent we just don’t care? @CroakeyNews @AHSRI_UOW @theMJA

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

1 year

What a tragic loss for Australia. A voice of reason on COVID among a lifetime of achievements

Professor Mary-Louise McLaws dies aged 70

Professor Mary-Louise McLaws, who was diagnosed with a serious disease as she led Australia through the pandemic, died on Saturday.

www.smh.com.au

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

So many comments from COVID minimisers claiming that Australian COVID death statistics are people dying with, not from, COVID. They are simply incorrect. So, for those not familar with cause of death data, here’s a brief explanation of how the system works 1/n👇

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

COVID is not like the flu. Our worst flu season in a decade was 2017 when 1,255 people died. We had more COVID deaths in the 1st three weeks of 2023 than flu deaths in the whole of 2017 @abcnews @normanswan @CroakeyNews @abc730 @latingle @Mark_Butler_MP @AlboMP @gedkearney

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@k_eagar

1 year

No one could have predicted this. COVID is much more dangerous than the flu. Now add long COVID into the equation. Disability, school absences, lost productivity, reduced quality of life. Makes me wonder whether we really should treat COVID as an exceptional disease? 👇

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

Wake up Australia. Someone is dying of COVID every 27 minutes. 1,063 COVID deaths in the 1st 20 days of 2023. Thanks @covidliveau for keeping us informed about the 2,300 in hospital & the 380 who died this week. Why are government, public health officials & mainstream media MIA?

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

4 months

One of my PhD students got their examiner’s reports back today. One passed it with no corrections. The other passed it but picked up three minor typos in the 510 page thesis. My student took exactly three years to complete it. He turns 81 later this year. @celebrateageing

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

11 months

World-famous painter Albert Namatjira and his wife were not allowed to buy a house and land in Alice Springs as they wanted. They were given no option but to camp outside the town.

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@k_eagar

1 year

While governments pretend that COVID has gone away, death data tell a different story. Australia has had 5,589 COVID deaths & 194 flu deaths so far in 2023. The death rate from COVID is 28 times higher than the death rate from flu. How much longer will Australia remain in denial?

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

3 years

Two thirds of all COVID cases in hospital in NSW are double vaccinated. They are seriously ill. Double vaccine is better than nothing. But it is not working well enough to prevent serious illness. This is not controversial. Everyone will need 3 doses then boosters subsequently

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@k_eagar

1 year

There have been 205 COVID deaths reported in the last 7 days. That’s nearly 30 deaths a day. COVID is now entrenched as our third leading cause of death behind heart disease and dementia. It is nothing like the flu, as this graph so clearly illustrates @CroakeyNews @abcnews 👇

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

11 months

I had my 6th COVID vaccination yesterday. And I will now be getting a booster every 6 months. Immunity wanes so fast that vaccination offers little or no protection after a few months. I’m recommending my family get a booster now followed by a new generation vaccine next year

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

A national tragedy. An Australian is now dying of COVID every 25 minutes. Even worse than last week as the numbers are updated after delayed reporting 1,586 deaths reported in the 1st 27 days of 2023. That’s more than in the whole of 2021. That’s 59 reported deaths a day 1/n

Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

@SarahJadeHunter @Once_Was_Arnold @KarenCutter4 @RealAnitaWhite @YouAreLobbyLud @_PHAA_ @RageSheen @NjbBari3 @drajm COVID is only 3 years old & it is too early to know what the long term consequences are. We may not know for decades who recovers completely & who lives with long term &/or permanent damage. Given that we genuinely don’t know, the precautionary principle should guide decisions

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

4 months

Can anyone explain why David McBride gets a jail term for sharing information with journalists while Michael Pezzullo doesn't?

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

1 year

While the media has been focused on 5 tragic deaths on the ocean floor, 149 Australians have died of COVID in the last 7 days. This makes 4,583 COVID deaths in 2023. 27 people are day are dying of COVID and everyone is happy to accept it as the new normal @CroakeyNews @AlboMP

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

4 years

Anyone want to suggest that @DanielAndrewsMP , @VictorianCHO and the Victorians haven’t done a brilliant job managing COVID?

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

Can anyone explain why anti-virals are not routinely provided in Australia to everyone diagnosed with COVID?

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

Another 108 COVID deaths in the last 7 days. This makes 2,344 in the 1st 8 weeks of 2023. We are on track for more than 14,000 COVID deaths again this year. With cases no longer being counted, the only measure now is deaths. Vaccine alone isn't enough. Another wave is inevitable

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

3 years

There are 2,700 aged care homes in Australia. There are active COVID outbreaks in 1,107 of them. A monumental failure by the Commonwealth to protect some of Australia’s most vulnerable people. @amapresident @anmf_federal @theMJA @gerontologyau @AHSRI_UOW @ACSANational @abcnews

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

Time to change direction @Mark_Butler_MP . We need to improve access to vaccine boosters, improve access to early diagnosis & improve access to early treatment. Plus improve ventilation & air quality & invest in culture change about masks. An excellent article @KarenMMiddleton

Raina MacIntyre 😷💉💉💉💉

@Globalbiosec

2 years

"Halton report warns of repeating Morrison errors" - Halton steered the ship during 09 flu pandemic & has huge knowledge &understanding of pandemic management & vaccines w her leadership of @CEPIvaccines . She hits the nail on the head. via @SatPaper

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

9 months

Exciting news. Australians will get access to monovalent covid vaccine from 11 December, only 3 months behind the USA. ATAGI was scheduled to reinvent the wheel in December but it’s meeting was brought forward to allow it to reinvent the wheel in November. Things are looking up

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

7 months

Before Australians panic, bubonic plague is just like the common cold. Once you’ve had it a few times you’ll develop natural immunity. Only the weak & the frail need worry but they can just stay home. No need for effective public health measures. Think that sounds stupid? It is

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@MeetJess

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Oregon officials are rushing to contain an outbreak of bubonic plague after announcing the state's first case since 2015. Greeaaatttttt 🫠

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

1 year

Influenza / Spanish flu ➡️ Parkinson’s Disease Epstein-Barr ➡️ cancer & many other diseases COVID ➡️ 4 years is too early to know Other infectious diseases that can have devastating consequences years or decades later?

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

Australia did such a brilliant job controlling COVID in 2020 and into 2021. Then we decided it was all too hard and that, instead of managing it, we would just pretend that the pandemic is over👇 @CroakeyNews @RealOzSAGE @YouAreLobbyLud @Mark_Butler_MP @RageSheen @AHSRI_UOW @UOW

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

11 months

Extraordinary history being reinvented by ‘blaming’ Dan Andrews for lockdowns etc. We locked down due to a deadly pandemic, not politicians. We had 1744 excess deaths. Multiple that by 46 to calculate our deaths if we had the same death rate as the US. 78,000 lives saved

Prof Brendan Crabb

@CrabbBrendan

11 months

While things are not great atm, in 2020-21, the collective actions of Dan Andrews & his team, along with other key Fed & State leaders, saved 10's of thousands of lives & averted many x more severe acute & chronic illnesses. These savings were sustained (a story for another day).

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

3 years

179 people died in WA in traffic accidents during the whole of last year. 196 people in NSW died of COVID just in the last week. Why would anyone want people in WA to experience the distress the rest of us are going through? BTW, the WA economy is going better than ours too

Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

3 years

46 more people in NSW won’t be living with COVID. This makes 373 in the last four weeks. I wish I was living in WA @drajm @WLB236 @AMA_WA @westaustralian @AHSRI_UOW @CroakeyNews

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

3 years

9,643 residents & 14,257 aged care staff now have COVID. The aged care resident case fatality rate to date is ~10%. Hopefully the 3rd dose vaccine program will reduce that significantly. But we should be prepared for hundreds more deaths regardless. A national tragedy @AHSRI_UOW

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

9 months

Numerous studies all drawing the same conclusions: people around the world are sicker now than they were before COVID. And the evidence is absolutely clear that life expectancy has fallen & isn’t bouncing back. And no, it isn’t vaccine or lockdowns. It’s COVID @jeffgilchrist

Jeff Gilchrist

@jeffgilchrist

9 months

Why do people seem to be getting sick more often now? For yet another year we are already seeing earlier and significantly higher hospital admissions for respiratory illness than pre-pandemic levels. Are there new mysterious pathogens starting to attack us now? 🧵1/

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

6 months

Prof Doherty is Australia’s most distinguished immunologist and a Nobel Laureate. This is his assessment of the Qld long COVID study. The matter is settled @StevenJMiles @ShannonFentiman @CroakeyNews @TheRACP @ama_media

Prof. Peter Doherty

@ProfPCDoherty

6 months

@DavidJoffe64 Yes, it's apiece of crap.

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

1 year

COVID is now Australia’s third leading cause of death. In 2023 ten times more people will die of COVID than die in car accidents. We wear seatbelts, have speed limits and traffic rules to minimise traffic accidents & deaths. We need a similar proportional response to COVID

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

7 months

One Queenslander dies every single day from hospital-acquired COVID-19. That’s right, a Queenslander goes to hospital for an unrelated reason & gets infected with COVID. The COVID kills them. @StevenJMiles this is happening on your watch. Time to appoint a new CHO

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@psvbluemts

7 months

I have obtained information about hospital-acquired COVID-19 from Queensland Health. From Jan-22 to June-23 an average of 14 people caught C19 in hospital each day, and one of these died each day. The data only lists deaths in the hospital, we don't know how many died soon after

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

3 years

Aged care COVID update: 18,880 aged care residents & 21,705 staff have now been infected. 1,781 residents have died: 685 in 2020; 282 in 2021 & 814 in 2022. Is there anywhere more dangerous to be in a pandemic?👇 @AHSRI_UOW @CroakeyNews @abcnews @theMJA @anmf_federal @ama_media

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

Finally. Months behind other comparable countries, ATAGI finally decides that Australians should get access to a 5th COVID vax. While it’s better late than never, when are we going to get on the front foot in containing this virus?

Fifth Covid vaccine for Australian adults to roll out later this month

Omicron-specific dose will be available for over-18s who have not had a booster or a confirmed coronavirus case in past six months

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

Guess what. Incredible surprise. School is a superspreader event. Time for some honesty about schools & COVID. Physical & mental health & healthy parents are all important & schools are not just for minding kids while parents get back to work @AHSRI_UOW

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@k_eagar

1 year

138 reported COVID deaths this week. Someone has died of COVID every 53 minutes of 2023 so far. Even though 27 people have died of COVID every day of 2023, politicians, public health leaders & media don’t think they are worth mentioning. It diminishes us as a society

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@k_eagar

7 months

Just a reminder. Every single time a person is infected with COVID is an opportunity for the virus to mutate. The rate of mutation is evidence that the virus is thriving. Contrary to predictions, it won’t just become milder and burn itself out. @CroakeyNews @Mark_Butler_MP

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

11 months

Hands up all those who would have voted for 78,000 of us to die so the rest of us were not inconvenienced.

Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

11 months

Extraordinary history being reinvented by ‘blaming’ Dan Andrews for lockdowns etc. We locked down due to a deadly pandemic, not politicians. We had 1744 excess deaths. Multiple that by 46 to calculate our deaths if we had the same death rate as the US. 78,000 lives saved

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@k_eagar

2 years

It is simply nonsense to claim that doctors & coroners across the country systematically lie about cause of death. It is a massive insult to the professional integrity of clinicians, bureau staff etc & disparaging of our excellent systems in place for accurate reporting. 4/4. End

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

4 years

Total COVID deaths in Australia topped 600 yesterday. 601 total deaths. 401 in aged care. Let those numbers sink in. Twice as many people have died in aged care than in the rest of Australia altogether. System failures, personal tragedies 😢

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

1 year

184 reported COVID deaths this week. This makes 3,850 deaths in 2023 & 20,879 deaths in total. We remain on track for more than 10,000 COVID deaths in 2023. 27 people a day dying of COVID don’t even rate a mention by our politicians, public health leaders or the media.

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

If we really want to live with COVID, an excellent place to start is to ensure that school children breathe clean air. Well done France and Belgium. Hopefully one day Australia will catch up. School education is a state responsibility but national leadership needed @JasonClareMP

Peter Vogel

@psvbluemts

2 years

This is great news. France has joined Belgium as world leaders in the pursuit of mandatory infection resilience through clean air. USA is fast-tracking similar. UK seriously investigating. Australia is doubling down on hand washing.

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@k_eagar

1 year

If you only read one article on COVID this week, read this. An excellent article by @JenniferDoggett and @CroakeyNews . Most people (including paediatricians) will be surprised by the evidence on the impact on kids. The time to stop the denial is now

COVID-19’s toll on children and young people

Introduction by Croakey: A growing body of work is challenging the view that COVID-19 does not pose a significant threat

www.croakey.org

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

7 months

How embarrassing for Australian paediatricians who minimised the risks of COVID & who were obsessed about getting kids back into the classroom at all costs. The evidence keeps growing about the damage that COVID does to kids. Kids need advocates who actually want to protect kids

Long Covid Kids - #LongCovidKids

@LongCovidKids

7 months

Congratulations to members of our Youth Advisory Panel (YAP) Sanjana & Eden on the publication of their essay in the @TheLancet ‘Children and young people with Long Covid: overlooked and neglected’ #LongCovids #LongCovid #COVID19

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@k_eagar

2 years

Well done @abc730 & @latingle for pushing gov about weak & ineffective COVID containment strategy. Responses by @Mark_Butler_MP show how badly he is being advised. The evidence speaks for itself. COVID is 3rd leading cause of death & is not seasonal. ATAGI is out of its depth

abc730

@abc730

2 years

. @latingle asks Health Minister @Mark_Butler_MP : “Are you considering making another bivalent booster available as a fifth dose to all Australians who have had a fourth dose?” #abc730 #covid #auspol

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@k_eagar

1 year

Last week there were 2,029 Australians in hospital with COVID. One week later there are 2,251. 11% increase in one week. $2.5 million in hospital costs each day. National Cabinet didn’t even bother to mention covid today @AlboMP @ChrisMinnsMP @DanielAndrewsMP @AnnastaciaMP

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@k_eagar

9 months

At last, a Health Minister facing up the reality of COVID, something we have known for at least 2 years. Inevitably Australian health ministers must do the same. Now to see how long our various health ministers take to finally step up as leaders

Masketair

@ZurNull

9 months

German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach provides a crucial update on the ongoing Long COVID situation, as Germany faces a new wave amidst the holiday season. (with English subtitles)

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@k_eagar

1 year

Robodebt case study needs to be taught in every public service & Ministerial orientation program from this point on. It signifies everything that was wrong with how the Coalition did business & how public servants enabled the government to pursue illegal & unethical agendas

RonniSalt

@RonniSalt

1 year

After observing #RobodebtRC this month and the endless parade of convenient amnesiacs and dribbling liars who can't keep records, read emails, answer a memo, take notes, or remember who was in a room with them, Australians should be storming Parliament. /1

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@k_eagar

3 years

Told today by 2 palliative care units they are being closed & turned into COVID units. I know hospital management would not have wanted to make this decision. They are running out of options. Living with COVID 😢 @AHSRI_UOW @PCOCPallCare @ANZSPM @PCNAust @CroakeyNews @UOW_VC

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@k_eagar

2 months

“The myth that the virus is 'harmless' for kids”. Except it wasn’t an honest mistake, it was misinformation by a small group of paediatricians, infectious disease & public health specialists. And ATAGI continues to fail children even now

Kids are losing 'huge chunks' of their childhood to long COVID. Too many are being told it's 'all...

They're losing their formative years to this debilitating disease. But for too many children with long COVID, finding help is a frustrating and traumatic process that leaves them feeling isolated and...

www.abc.net.au

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@k_eagar

1 year

105 reported COVID deaths this week. This makes 3,125 deaths in 2023. With an Australian dying of COVID every 51 minutes in 2023, COVID is now our 3rd leading cause of death. COVID is not a mild endemic disease. Deaths & cases can be significantly reduced by better management

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@k_eagar

3 years

30,000 kids under 10 diagnosed with COVID by PCR in NSW in last two weeks. Double that to include RATs. This is before school returns

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@k_eagar

3 months

No man who murders his child can be described as a proud dad and a good bloke. Men who murder their children are not acting out of character. This is their real character. Glad to see @RyanPark_Keira denouncing this. @age_no_barrier @nswaci @NSWHealth

Fury over email praising killer dad

NSW Health Minister Ryan Park has denounced a NSW Health director who sent an email describing the man suspected of killing his two-year-old son in a murder-suicide as a “wonderful colleague”.

www.news.com.au

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@k_eagar

2 years

I have finally worked it out. Rich hybrid COVID immunity is not only good, it is essential. But only if variants come from western countries. If a variant comes out of China, rich hybrid immunity doesn’t apply & so we must approach with an abundance of caution @YouAreLobbyLud

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@k_eagar

1 year

Each dot is an Australian COVID death. Must be my eyesight but I am really struggling to see when COVID was over. The only white space I can see was when we were in lockdown, which history is now rewriting to say wasn’t necessary @CroakeyNews

Mike Honey

@Mike_Honey_

1 year

The ABS' Provisional Mortality statistics have been updated, up to March 2023. These are the COVID-19 deaths. Each individual death is represented by a single point. Can spot the point where "hybrid immunity" kicks in? 🧵

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@k_eagar

1 year

Australia is on target for 30,000 excess deaths this year. Some COVID. Some organ damage from long COVID. Some due to inadequate or delayed health care as health resources are diverted to treat COVID. An incredible failure in public policy. History will be the judge @CroakeyNews

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@k_eagar

2 years

@Henry_Craven @MichaelPascoe01 “Pre-palliative” is really an obscene concept. It was first coined I think by Scott Morrison. Describing frail older people as pre-palliative provided public permission to sacrifice some people for the greater good of others. Proudly eugenic & a fundamental breach of human rights

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@k_eagar

9 months

If a child catches COVID, they are more susceptible to then catching RSV. The start of a vicious circle. One that is largely preventable through basic public health measures. History will not be kind to paediatricians & public health physicians who claim COVID is safe for kids

Dr. Lisa Iannattone

@lisa_iannattone

9 months

This study found that the risk of RSV infection needing medical attention was 40% higher in kids that had covid vs those that didn’t. Both in 2021 and 2022. Yes they checked twice.

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2 years

A friend had RSV & now haemophilus influenzae. Both her parents have died in the last 3 weeks, she’s on antibiotics & is really run down. Now she has COVID as well. She’s been refused anti-virals as she’s ‘only in her 60s’ & doesn’t qualify. How is that clinically sensible?

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@k_eagar

2 years

It will be over by Christmas they said. No need for 5th vaccines they said. No need for any social measures to reduce community transmission they said. Extraordinary public health failure. Thanks @covidliveau for providing the public with information our govs no longer care about

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@k_eagar

2 years

@CrabbBrendan The top 3 causes of death in Australia are now (in order): 1.heart disease, 2.dementia 3.COVID No one should be deceived into thinking that COVID is a mild disease

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@k_eagar

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@hardenuppete I have never understood why the AFP Deputy Commissioner was not called in the previous court cases. Why was it left to the Brittany Higgins legal team to call this key expert witness?

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@k_eagar

6 months

@Peter_Fitz It was a train wreck. He finally said what we have all assumed. Supporting nuclear power is just a ruse to keep coal fired power for longer. Well done Sarah Ferguson

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@k_eagar

1 year

Spare a thought for the grieving family & friends of the 130 Australians who were reported to have died of COVID this week. They are part of the 4,918 COVID deaths in 2023. Taking into account delayed reporting, we remain on track for 10,000 COVID deaths in 2023 @CroakeyNews

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@k_eagar

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Australia seems headed to our own Brexit. Voting No to the Voice for many of the same reasons the English voted Yes to Brexit. The majority of the English are realising that they were deceived. But ignorance is no excuse & it’s too late for the UK. Can we avoid the same damage?

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@RageSheen I was contacted about a case today. Woman in her 20s in Sydney. Type 1 diabetic. Double vaxed. Two RAT tests both +ive. 7 days today still waiting for her PCR results. Extremely unwell. No GP care available, no HITH either. If you can’t get a PCR, you can’t get the care you need

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@k_eagar

4 months

@FergusonNews @abcnews That man was dismissed in disgrace. Why would you care what he thinks?

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

2 years

“Our health system is not set up for managing between half a million & a million Australians with long Covid” We aren’t even collecting any data on the size of the problem or the impact of treatment. System failure @profmiketoole @SatPaper @Mark_Butler_MP

Lack of data hinders long Covid response

Hundreds of thousands of Australians are already suffering from long Covid, but health officials lack the data to properly treat it and prepare the system for its full impact.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

6 months

@Milliganreports The author of that email is unfit to be a teacher. That language:“cheeky little misses.. knees wide… no knickers”. Everything we need to know about #Cranbrook culture. Thank you for your superb reporting. I hope you are getting support through these vile attacks

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6 months

@CollignonPeter What nonsense. A flawed study with conclusions not supported by the results. And not even peer-reviewed. I have been a research professor for 30 years. If this study was submitted by an undergraduate research student I’d fail it

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2 years

A new COVID wave is about to crash on us and ATAGI is on the back foot yet again. Surely for once we could have a proactive strategy @CroakeyNews @Mark_Butler_MP @_PHAA_ @amapresident @theMJA @normanswan

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@k_eagar

3 months

@JoshBBornstein @cathywilcox1 I vote that David Anderson gets the sack and that @latingle be appointed MD of the @abcnews . To rebuke a journalist for a comment made in conversation at a festival just shows that ABC has lost its way. MD should be defending quality journalists, not rebuking them

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@k_eagar

3 years

The outcomes speak for themselves. Just 9 COVID deaths in public sector aged care homes in Vic compared to 1,700 deaths in private & non gov homes. Residents are equally frail. The difference is better resourced care & staff ratios. ⁦ @AHSRI_UOW ⁩

Why Victorian public aged care homes were spared the worst of coronavirus

Throughout the pandemic, six people have died in Victoria’s state-run aged care homes compared to more than 900 in private and non-profit settings – and there’s broad agreement on the factors at play.

www.theage.com.au

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

1 year

Genuine question. Can anyone name any Australian human service where privatisation has led to better quality / outcomes or improved efficiency?

Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

1 year

@sallymcmanus Not just utilities. Also human services. VET, hospitals, child care, prisons, schools. We do not have one example where privatisation has resulted in better services or improved efficiency. We have plenty of example of worse services at higher costs

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The numbers don't lie. COVID is not like flu. With access to vaccine & antivirals, COVID death rate is now down from the peak but was still 11 times higher than flu in 2023. This is only direct deaths from COVID. There were a total of 8,400 (5%) excess deaths in 2023

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

4 years

@normanswan First dog on the moon got it right

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

3 months

One aged care resident dying every 4 hours from COVID. This would have to make aged care the most dangerous place in Australia this week. Whatever you are doing to prevent this isn’t working @ACSQHC @AgedCareQuality @healthgovau @Mark_Butler_MP @AnikaWells @MarcTennant

Prof Marc Tennant AM

@MarcTennant

3 months

COVID in aged care continues to grow at astonishing rates!!! We are at 80+week HIGH now. One dead resident every 4 hours from COVID last week.

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@k_eagar

4 months

Aged care homes to be given $941 per resident to buy their own PPE and RATS rather than being given free stock as happens now. They get to pocket the profit if they spend less than that. What could possibly go wrong? 🤦‍♀️

Stacey Masters

@mast0052

4 months

@k_eagar @age_no_barrier @anmf_federal @CroakeyNews From 1st May 2024, aged care providers need to source PPE and RATs via commercial suppliers. The Aust Govt is providing $941 per resident per annum to help fund outbreak mgt. Providers are assessing local risk and dropping masks &/or RAT requirements 🤔

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1 year

It was predictable that evidence would accumulate that COVID can be extremely damaging to children. Yet a group of vocal paediatricians & infectious disease specialists in Australia discounted that possibility early in the pandemic. School at any cost. Big business wins

Prof Brendan Crabb

@CrabbBrendan

1 year

"It was thought at first that the pediatric population was relatively spared from the long-term effects of COVID-19 after infection," the authors said. "But this changed rapidly with increasing reports & studies of pediatric patients not fully recovering from acute COVID-19."

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1 year

The next time you hear someone say that COVID is no more serious than flu, shake your head slowly & patiently explain that COVID is ten times worse than flu Example-South Australia: Hospital - COVID 140 vs Flu 11 Cases - COVID 3256 vs Flu 319 Deaths - COVID 8 vs Flu 0

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1 year

@RageSheen Yes, current disease paradigm is that most chronic diseases are driven by lifestyle & are preventable by decisions that individuals make. But infectious diseases that occurred years or decades before are also major causes. Health system needs to join the dots & so do individuals

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1 year

While everyone is rightly outraged about tasering a 95 year old lady who walks with a frame, let’s not overlook that another 38 aged care residents died of COVID this week. 16% of aged care homes are managing COVID outbreaks & 2000 residents & staff are infected. @AnikaWells

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@k_eagar

2 years

@NjbBari3 @ScientistBlood @abcnews @normanswan @CroakeyNews @abc730 @latingle @Mark_Butler_MP @AlboMP @gedkearney Here's the graph again with COVID deaths for 2022 not truncated. This shows much more clearly the massive number of COVID deaths in 2022

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@k_eagar

2 years

@SarahJadeHunter @Once_Was_Arnold @KarenCutter4 @RealAnitaWhite @YouAreLobbyLud @_PHAA_ @RageSheen @NjbBari3 @drajm COVID is only 3 years old & it is too early to know what the long term consequences are. We may not know for decades who recovers completely & who lives with long term &/or permanent damage. Given that we genuinely don’t know, the precautionary principle should guide decisions

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@k_eagar

21 days

“The most deplorable thing unis copied from big business, aside from vice-chancellor pay. Successive federal governments have engineered a kind of backdoor privatisation of our universities. It’s shameful” Failed neoliberalism. An excellent analysis by @1RossGittins @smh @theage

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@k_eagar

11 months

Exhibit 1 for the COVID inquiry. COVID deaths per million population in Australia and Sweden, the only OECD country to not lockdown or take other public health measures to protect citizens. Public health works. It’s just that Australia has now decided on survival of the fittest

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@k_eagar

9 months

2 weeks from Christmas & 324 aged care homes have active COVID outbreaks. 1,460 residents & 666 staff now infected. 17 residents died from COVID in last week. Politicians & public officials responsible for keeping older people safe MIA @CroakeyNews @Mark_Butler_MP @AlboMP

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@k_eagar

2 years

A 16 yo with only 18 days between COVID infections. We are hearing this more often. Previous infections offering virtually no immunity even if double vaxxed. Herd immunity is an illusion. We really have to return to evidence-based public health measures @AHSRI_UOW @CroakeyNews

DrKatMac

@drkatmac

2 years

16 year old - symptomatic and positive RAT AGAIN 18 days after a recent covid infection 🤯🥺 Symptoms day 1-9 Positive RAT x2 day 1, positive again at day 7 (symptomatic) Asymptomatic days 9 -17 New symptoms & strongly positive RAT day 18 😫 #CovidIsNotOver #covid19qld

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2 years

The year that was. And probably will be again next year

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6 months

99 million people can’t be wrong. A study of 99m COVID vaccines has shown they are overwhelmingly safe. However, like every vaccine & many clinical treatments, there are some side effects. On balance, it’s much safer to be vaccinated than not @CroakeyNews

Largest ever COVID-19 study shows vaccines overwhelmingly safe

The study involved more than 99 million people across Australia, Argentina, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, New Zealand and Scotland.

www.themandarin.com.au

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Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

3 years

A total of 1,529 COVID cases in hospital in NSW, Vic & ACT today. This is equivalent to 50 x 30 bed wards. These are not additional beds and wards, they are existing wards that are now being used for COVID patients👇 @AHSRI_UOW @anmf_federal @MJA_Editor @amapresident @CroakeyNews

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@k_eagar

10 months

So if I now wear a mask to protect myself from a disease that has killed 7 million people, I’m the problem? Seriously @NSWHealth , you’ve lost the plot @ChrisMinnsMP @RyanPark_Keira @nswaci @NSWCHO @CroakeyNews @drkerrynphelps @age_no_barrier @Covid19NSW @AMA_NSW @anmf_federal

NSW Health

@NSWHealth

10 months

With COVID-19 cases increasing in the community, some people, including people at higher risk of severe illness, may choose to wear a mask to protect themselves, such as when in indoor settings or on public transport. Be kind and considerate of someone’s choice to wear a mask.

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2 years

This is a thread for those genuinely perplexed about the number of people who die from COVID despite being vaccinated. COVID minimisers & anti-vaxxers need read no further & need not respond. 1/n 👇 @CroakeyNews @ama_media @RadioNational @abcnews @smh @theage @abc730 @politicsabc

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3 years

National aged care COVID weekly report will be published tonight. I am expecting it to report 421 COVID deaths in aged care nationally in the first 27 days of January. 15 a day. Every single one of those people mattered. 421 families grieving @AHSRI_UOW @AnitaWestera @theMJA

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