When COVID and flu collide: What's in store for Australia as new variant strikes before winter flu season?

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With influenza infections dropping to record lows during the social distancing phase of the pandemic, Australia is in uncharted waters as we approach winter with a new sub-variant in play.

BA.2, he says, falls into the latter category; it's much more similar to BA.1 than the early strains.

"It may be as we move forward and look at boosters, we find that it's a little bit more slippery than its sister BA.1," he says. "But, BA.1 has done quite a decent job in terms of evading antibodies from the vaccine response." While we ultimately "don't know what this thing is going to do", Dr Turville believes thanks to high levels of hybrid immunity from past infection and vaccination we are in "good shape moving forward towards the end of 2022".

in the first week of March. The government says there's so far been no evidence BA.2 is more likely to lead to hospitalisation.

 

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You all took the poison

What’s in store? More hysteria, more government overreach and more media and government born bigots calling for segregation and discrimination to be applied to their fellow citizens.

Lot of people did not read the last paragraph 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Is the ABC just a PR company now, you’re basically just releasing PR reports and statements from The State, receding talent or rich people…! Wash your hands, don’t get in people’s grill and be respectful of others and you won’t get sick; The End.

Health First and Staying Safe.

There’s so much more moralising to come.

Where is the ABC’s health warning ⚠️? The leftist narrative is toxic as hell

Oh for fucks sake ABC. Twitter please de platform this user for relentlessly spreading fear.

Scaremongering much? I think you need to hire a few new journalists!

Deal with it without destroying the economy, or forcing dangerous and experimental drugs on the people... Might be a good place to start

Write a new fear porn script. This one is a repeat

We didn't see it coming

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