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Infectious diseases

Reflections

The breakfast tray

Jillian Chau

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 504-504

Christmas competition / Winner

Scientists in pyjamas: characterising the working arrangements and productivity of Australian medical researchers during the COVID‐19 pandemic

David G Chapman and Cindy Thamrin

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 516-520 Free

Christmas competition / Third place

The year of the ‘rona: an uncontrolled trial in verse

Rob D Mitchell

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 524-524 Free

Editorial

Health and medicine in a pandemic year: moving from the “winter of despair” to the “spring of hope”

Nicholas J Talley

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 484-488 Free

Perspectives

Impact of Victoria’s Stage 3 lockdown on COVID‐19 case numbers

Allan Saul, Nick Scott, Brendan S Crabb, Suman S Majumdar, Benjamin Coghlan and Margaret E Hellard

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 494-496.e1 Free

Perspectives

Changes in medical scientific publication associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic

Kirsty A Whitmore, Kevin B Laupland, Clare M Vincent, Felicity A Edwards and Michael C Reade

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 496-499.e1 Free

Medical history

Meningitis and the military: the remarkable story of the first use of penicillin in Australia (1943)

Ameneh Khatami, Philip N Britton, Glendon Farrow, Megan Phelps and Alyson Kakakios

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 508-510.e1

Perspectives

Tenecteplase (and common sense) in short supply during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Mark Parsons, Leonid Churilov, Aletta E Schutte and Christopher Levi

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 442-443.e1 Free

Research letter

Successful containment to date of SARS‐CoV‐2 transmission in the Northern Territory

Nicholas M Douglas, Ella M Meumann, Vicki L Krause and Jane Davies, for the Northern Territory COVID‐19 Response Group

Med J Aust 2020; 214 (5): n/a-n/a Free

Letters

Public health crises and the need for accessible information

Ariella Meltzer

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 478-478.e1 Free

Perspectives

COVID‐19, children and schools: overlooked and at risk

Zoë Hyde

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 444-446.e1 Free

Letters

Environmentally sustainable health care: now is the time for action

Forbes McGain, Meriel Chamberlin and Jane Milburn

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 478-478.e1

Perspectives

Superspreaders, asymptomatics and COVID‐19 elimination

David Kault

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 447-448.e1 Free

Letters

Environmentally sustainable health care: now is the time for action

Anthony Capon, Diana L Madden and Philip G Truskett

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 479-479.e1

Research

Mental health of people in Australia in the first month of COVID‐19 restrictions: a national survey

Jane RW Fisher, Thach D Tran, Karin Hammarberg, Jayagowri Sastry, Hau Nguyen, Heather Rowe, Sally Popplestone, Ruby Stocker, Claire Stubber and Maggie Kirkman

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 458-464 Free

Guideline summary

The 2020 Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

Anna P Ralph, Sara Noonan, Vicki Wade and Bart J Currie

Med J Aust 2020; 214 (5): n/a-n/a Free

Research letters

Associations between restrictions on public mobility and slowing of new COVID‐19 case rates in three countries

Tu Hao Tran, Suraj N Sasikumar, Annemarie Hennessy, Aiden O'Loughlin and Lucy Morgan

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 471-473 Free

Perspectives

Can AI help in the fight against COVID‐19?

Ian A Scott and Enrico W Coiera

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 439-441.e2 Free

Perspective

A hospital‐wide response to multiple outbreaks of COVID‐19 in health care workers: lessons learned from the field

Kirsty L Buising, Deborah Williamson, Benjamin C Cowie, Jennifer MacLachlan, Elizabeth Orr, Christopher MacIsaac, Eloise Williams, Katherine Bond, Stephen Muhi, James McCarthy, Andrea B Maier, Louis Irving, Denise Heinjus, Cate Kelly and Caroline Marshall

Med J Aust 2020; 214 (4): n/a-n/a Free

Letters

ECG: essential in care of patients with COVID‐19

Kaitlyn Lam, Sarah McClelland and Michael J Dallo

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 476-476.e1 Free

Editorials

Mental health and COVID‐19: are we really all in this together?

Patrick McGorry

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 454-455 Free

Perspectives

COVID‐19 in a Sydney nursing home: a case study and lessons learnt

Gwendolyn L Gilbert

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (9): 393-396.e1 Free

Letters

Prolonged PCR positivity in health care workers with COVID‐19: implications for practice guidelines

Kyra YL Chua, Natasha E Holmes and Jason Kwong

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (9): 430-430.e1 Free

Research letters

Efficacy of an enclosure for reducing aerosol exposure during patient intubation

James Derrick, Jeneen Thatcher and Joyce Chau Ping Wong

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 372-373 Free

Perspectives

Implications of COVID‐19 for an ageing population

Nicolette R Holt, Johannes T Neumann, John J McNeil and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 342-344.e1 Free