While most of the country is enjoying new pandemic freedoms, older and infirm Australian are concerned the new rules put them at increased risk.
Australia’s new rules for managing the COVID-19 pandemic favour the young and the healthy. For them, the rules offer self-reliance and some freedoms.for testing, isolating and defining a close contact are causing serious concern among the elderly and the medically vulnerable.
First, delta is nastier than omicron, is still in circulation, and may be partly responsible for the dramatic rise in hospitalisation. Fourth, an infected person needs to isolate for seven rather than 10 days from the time of testing positive. As infection is not necessarily cleared in seven days, this adds risk.
than delta and the prevailing wisdom is that people can get it just by walking past an infected person.Professor Cunningham, director of the Centre for Virus Research at The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, says the size of the dose is important. A brief pavement encounter might transmit a tiny dose. Several shared hours in a room could see a large dose transmitted.
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