Only a fraction of COVID-19 cases in Australia are being diagnosed and reported and the strict household contact rules may be discouraging people from getting tested.
Without an inquiry,we might move on without becoming as wise as we could be from these past two years.
We can slow the virus by taking extra measures to protect ourselves,with or without rules.
We need a partnership between health authorities and the community to control the spread of Omicron.
A major development in our emergence from the pandemic has been the announcement that the Pfizer vaccine has been provisionally approved for use in children aged five to 11 years.
Installing measures to deal with Omicron is our first run at dialling up our responses since starting on the road to living with the virus in Australia,and something we need to get used to.
Victoria’s next step of the road map to reopening has been brought forward to this Friday,but there’s no need to feel anxious about the quicker timeline.
There seems to be an underlying concern over the powerful effect of vaccination on transmission and hospitalisation.
The population level protection from vaccine coverage will be at its peak right now.
Staging opening up allows us to manage risk as we test to see how our infection control measures stand up.
Vaccination is the most powerful lever in our efforts to control the Delta variant.