In an article in Quadrant Online in January this year, twelve months into a pandemic with a level of devastation unknown to our generation, I described Australia as an island nation, isolated in an artificial and unstable bubble from a sea of COVID-19 causing 15,000 deaths across the world each day. At that time Australia […]

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It is unlikely Australia will see the levels of post-vaccine complications witnessed in the US and Europe as the the low incidence of infection here means widespread priming of the immune system has not happened. The second injections and future booster shots, however, raise the disturbing prospect of very different outcomes. Scandalously, all this while two cheap, proven and effective drugs are spurned

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This not the time for those who should know better to publicly argue for one or other COVID-19 vaccine, not when full and adequate evidence for any such choice is well down the line. What the current moment most definitely does demand is early treatment, especially for the aged and most vulnerable, and for this two cheap, proven and off-patent drugs are readily available -- hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin

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