COVID-19
Alternative labels
Coronavirus disease 2019
Novel coronavirus pneumonia
2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease
Article
Morrison, compassion and coronavirus: when crisis refines leadership
News that the Morrison government paid A$190,000 last year for advice on how to empathise with the Australian people was met with ridicule.
Article
Public messaging when it matters most
What are the lessons of overseas Covid-19 responses for Australian policymakers?
Journal article
On a knife’s edge of a COVID-19 pandemic: is containment still possible?
Australia could see higher proportional death rates from the novel coronavirus outbreak than in China, due to our relatively older population and the more severe symptoms of the virus in older people, according to this perspective by Professor Raina MacIntyre, Head of the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute.
Strategy
Australian health sector emergency response plan for novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
This management plan for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations has been developed by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Group on COVID-19 and endorsed by the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC).
Strategy
Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia Coronavirus (COVID-19) response toolkit for member services
This AHCWA Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response Toolkit for Member Services has been devised to assist in planning and responding to the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.