Abby PS

👩🏼‍⚕️💉💊Former @BurnetInstitute, @royalmarsdenNHS, @RedRAustralia @WHO, current @NSWhealth

[Abby PS @AP_hyphen_S]

@BurnetInstitute PNG & @majumdar_suman - Two excitable humans finding each other. After 2 1/2 years of phone & email conversations we had never physically met, so was a joy to find each other on the same dinner table in Vanimo!! Thanks Betty Matonge for such a lovely catch up!!

[Abby PS @AP_hyphen_S]

@JocelyneBasseal @WHOWPRO @ShSalmon @IPCPau @draljubi @angepratt @LivLD @RosemarieNorth @shanefairlie Who would have thought a discussion of about doors (or rather, the absence of doors) would have led us here? Thankyou @JocelyneBasseal for being such a calming, supportive and very wise force 💛

[Abby PS @AP_hyphen_S]

@StefVaccher Such a lovely account of such a beautiful place… Thankyou for writing it and getting the message out there 🌴

[Michael Toole 🇺🇦 @profmiketoole.bsky.social @profmiketoole]

Australia now ranks #4 globally for total cases in the past 7 days. It ranks #1 for cases per million in countries with a population >1 million. Only Monserrat, Reunion and Cook Islands have greater cases/m. An Olympian effort Australia.

[🧶 unravellednurse 🧶 @jsam-1967.bsky.social @jsam_1967]

Above all, caring for older people is not a burden, it is a privilege. We should have the resources to do it well, and to make the final years of their life as good as they can be. They deserve it. We owe it. #ItsTime #AgedCareCrisis @anmf_federal @acnp_national @the_shb

[Abby PS @AP_hyphen_S]

Japanese encephalitis virus situation declared a Communicable Disease Incident of National Significance | Australian Government Department of Health https://t.co/UJfW8bDuxk

[Prof Brendan Crabb @CrabbBrendan]

Watch it all, difficult as it is.

[Abby PS @AP_hyphen_S]

@BauriMathias @mik594 👏💪👍Great work Mathias!

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Morrison:We don’t mandate ppl wearing sunscreen, so we won’t mandate masks.
McGowan: We don’t let ppl smoke in restaurants because it impacts on others.

Just a slightly better explanation of why, just sometimes, public health is not a personal choice

[Burnet Institute @BurnetInstitute]

Low #vaccination rates in the developing world are fundamental to the emergence of #OmicronVariant @BurnetInstitute Deputy Director David Anderson tells @antonenus @sbsnews “It’s not over for any of us until it’s over for all of us.” @EndCOVIDforAll @CrabbBrendan

[Sarah Simons @SarahNSimons]

Emergency Medicine exams in 2022: There is an earthquake. You need to safely evacuate your Covid positive patients but there is an antivax riot outside with protesters throwing flares at healthcare workers. Also, you can’t really see through your goggles. Discuss.

[Abby PS @AP_hyphen_S]

6 days post and still making me giggle 🤣

[Joe O'Brien @JoeDoesNews]

Bringin' the raunch to Breakfast TV
Just when you thought you couldn't love @Tonaaayy_ any more than you do ..

[Doherty Institute @TheDohertyInst]

It might seem that these ‘test, trace, isolate and quarantine’ measures aren’t currently working – in New South Wales or Victoria. But they are. They are stopping transmissions and reducing the effective reproduction rate from 5 to closer to 1.3 in New South Wales.

[Abby PS @AP_hyphen_S]

Vale Dr Evelyn Lavau. For a little while last year I had the utter pleasure & honour to share a little desk area, enjoy some cheeky chats over coffee, and simply marvel at the impact Dr Lavau has had on STEM & health in PNG. Condolences to her family, friends & colleagues.

[Prof Brendan Crabb @CrabbBrendan]

Vale Professor Evelyn Lavu - from @BurnetInstitute - & to appreciate the magnitude of her loss to the nation of PNG, please read the tribute from Prime Minister James Marape attached. It is a loss from which it feels we can never fully recover.
https://t.co/GFMVGgZW1M

[Suman Majumdar @majumdar_suman]

This pandemic (like all infectious diseases) exploits inequities in our society

Concerted, targeted measures are needed to enable + support those most at-risk

or we all remain at risk

@BurnetInstitute @KnowC19_Burnet @CrabbBrendan @SandroDemaio

https://t.co/BlqcWlLoLU

[Burnet Institute @BurnetInstitute]

"NSW is going to need tougher restrictions, something more akin to Stage 4 in Victoria to get this [Delta outbreak] back to zero in a reasonable timeframe, acc to new modelling," @CrabbBrendan told @normanswan @abc730. Modelling on https://t.co/a9YLlNjR07.

[Burnet Institute @BurnetInstitute]

Likely ‘Stage 4’ tighter restriction levels will be needed to control the current #Delta variant outbreak in NSW, new @BurnetInstitute modelling shows. More https://t.co/kTL5M2MgrK. #Sydney @CrabbBrendan @abc730 @normanswan

[Prof Brendan Crabb @CrabbBrendan]

Devastatingly, the next global surge is on, fueled by Delta. Most countries have v dark days ahead as vaccination levels are low - Indonesia for example. #COVID19 vaccines are spectacular, even against Delta. We have to vaccinate the world with much greater urgency - priority #1

[Anna Maalsen @AMaalsen]

COVID-19 vaccines now available in #PNG for everyone 18 years and older.
#sleevesup #BeAVaccineChampion #niupelapasin

[Dr. Nick Coatsworth @nick_coatsworth]

Getting a COVID jab is safer than taking aspirin https://t.co/UyJmqIVuSw