Vaccination rates among children and teens have dropped to "critical" levels, according to experts, who are warning deaths are inevitable if Australia doesn't do more to turn the trend around.
Planning to get a flu shot? Older people recommended to get a COVID booster too
Less than half of Australia's aged care residents aged 75 years and older are up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations, despite being at highest risk of severe health outcomes.
Councils under fire for promoting vaccine scepticism
Three local councils in South Australia have been passing motions questioning vaccines, but health experts say they are based on misinformation and heighten community risk.
FOI reveals idea for a Melb COVID curfew did not come from health experts
The state opposition says it's obtained documents showing Melbourne's first COVID curfew was announced without proper health advice.
Trump administration scrap COVID-19 sites in favour of lab leak theory
The Trump administration has relaunched COVID-19 health websites, blaming the origins of the coronavirus on a lab leak in China and criticising former president Joe Biden.
Vaccination urged as flu cases spike, RSV hospitalisations decrease
One less infant, under the age of six months, was hospitalised each day following the release of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) shot, Queensland Health says.
Sarah's 'career change' sounds like a dream, until you hear her full story
What about the people who change their career not to scratch some creative or philanthropic itch or make a truckload of money, but out of necessity — because illness or injury derailed or destroyed their ability to work?
This flu virus is spreading and scientists say it has pandemic potential
Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next pandemic.
Robert F Kennedy Jr to cut 10,000 US health department jobs
The health secretary says the move will reduce "bureaucratic sprawl" but has led to concerns it would lead agencies to drastically scale back their operations.
The impact COVID had on the housing market in seven charts
New data shows how Australia's housing market was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the most significant factor being how housing values changed.
New research reveals long-term health impact of COVID-19
A study of hundreds of thousands of people hospitalised from COVID has shown increased risk of death more than two years after infection.
Millions in hotel quarantine fees still outstanding
The Queensland government has vowed to recover unpaid hotel quarantine fees from the COVID-19 pandemic, but not everyone agrees with the decision.
Queensland recouping $30m in unpaid hotel quarantine fees three years on
The Queensland government has vowed to recover unpaid hotel quarantine fees from the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than $30 million still outstanding.
First Western tourists to enter North Korea in five years
Tours of Western travellers are due to enter the North Korean border city of Rason today for the first time since borders were closed at the start of the COVID pandemic in early 2020.
'Wasteful': 500-bed facility sits empty in Perth's north during housing crisis
While West Australians continue to feel the pressure of the housing crisis, could a 500-bed facility that's sitting empty in Bullsbrook in Perth's north go some way to easing the shortage?
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Study finds similarities in long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome
An Australian study has found a similarity in the brains of people living with long COVID and the condition known as chronic fatigue syndrome.
Long COVID patients show brain swelling linked to memory problems, study finds
Brain scans shows patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) share similar issues in a part of the brain known as the hippocampus.
Is the push to return to the office actually working?
More than a third of Australians are still working from home, defying a renewed push to get people back into the office post-pandemic.
Why you're unlikely to see COVID mentioned in film for a while
It's been five years since COVID-19 swept across the globe. But for an event of its scale, the way the pandemic has been represented in culture — if at all — has varied wildly.
As Beijing embraces 'communal wealth', some Chinese people flee to Japan
Chinese citizens are continuing to migrate to Japan in increasing numbers, hoping to build better lives for their families.
Slow return of big-spending Chinese tourists worries industry
Nearly 18 months since the Chinese tourism market reopened to Australia, annual visitor numbers to Queensland’s Gold Coast remain down by almost 75 per cent compared with pre-COVID figures.