COVID-19

All Items

• 2024 Annual Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report

  Ms Jenna Hassall, Ms Suzie Whitehead, Ms Lauren Welsh, Ms Ash Donovan, Dr Gizem Bilgin, Dr Nga Nguyen, Ms Caitlin Trenorden, Ms Siobhan St George

• Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses in adults aged 50 years and over during the Omicron period in Victoria, Australia

  Joshua Szanyi, Yue Yang, Jiaxu Zeng, Chris Clarke, Amanda K Buttery, Professor Tony Blakely

• Temporal analysis of respiratory virus epidemics in Victoria over winter 2024

  Dr Oliver Eales, Dr Katharine L Senior, Dr Saras M Windecker, Mr Ruarai J Tobin, Ms Janet Strachan, Ms Elizabeth J Robinson, Prof. Nick Golding, Prof. James Wood, Prof. James M McCaw, A/Prof. Freya M Shearer

• Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia annual report, COVID-19 vaccines, 2022

  Yuanfei Anny Huang, Claire Larter, Megan Hickie, Megan O’Moore, Belinda Jones, Lucy Deng, Sophie Russell, Elspeth Kay, Kristine Macartney, Nicholas Wood

• Symptom profile of COVID-19 in children in the Metro South area of Brisbane, during the first SARS-CoV-2 Omicron wave: a population-based survey

  Bonnie M Macfarlane, Yee Sum Li, Christian James, Khin Chaw, Satyamurthy Anuradha

• Public health rapid response in managing COVID-19 outbreaks in residential aged care facilities: a regional public health unit perspective

  Mohammad Rashidul Hashan, Jacina Walker, Margaret Charles, Susie Le Brasse, Danielle Odorico, Nicolas Smoll, Michael Kirk, Robert Booy, Gulam Khandaker

• Validation of a risk stratification tool for SARS-CoV-2 Delta community transmission in the Australian Capital Territory

  Alexandra Marmor, Tze Vun Voo, Meru Sheel, Timothy Sloan-Gardner, Nevada Pingault

• Learning from COVID-19: strengthening Australia’s research capacity through preparedness and collaboration

  Miranda Z Smith, Janelle Bowden, Linda Cristine, Anthony L Cunningham, John Kaldor, Sharon R Lewin, Andrew Singer, Robyn L Ward, Tania C Sorrell

• Comorbidities and confusion: addressing COVID-19 vaccine access and information challenges

  Katie Attwell, Leah Roberts, Christopher C Blyth

• Differential COVID-19 case ascertainment by age and vaccination status in Victoria, Australia: a serosurveillance and record linkage study

  Joshua Szanyi, David J Price, Kylie S Carville, Mitch Batty, Sarah Yallop, Suellen Nicholson, Theo Karapanagiotidis, Stacy Rowe, Sheena Sullivan, Vinay Menon, Daniel West, Lakshmi Manoharan, Eliza Copsey, Suman S Majumdar, Brett Sutton, Deborah A Williamson, Jodie McVernon

• Opportunities to strengthen respiratory virus surveillance systems in Australia: lessons learned from the COVID-19 response

  Freya M Shearer, Laura Edwards, Martyn Kirk, Oliver Eales, Nick Golding, Jenna Hassall, Bette Liu, Michael Lydeamore, Caroline Miller, Robert Moss, David J Price, Gerard E Ryan, Sheena Sullivan, Ruarai Tobin, Kate Ward, John Kaldor, Allen C Cheng, James Wood, James M McCaw

• The Effect of COVID-19 public health measures on nationally notifiable diseases in Australia during 2020 and 2021

  Anna C Rafferty, Anna Glynn-Robinson, Dharshi Thangarajah, Ben Polkinghorne

• Pertussis notifications decline in Australia during COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions, 2020–2021

  Saskia van der Kooi, Frank Beard, Aditi Dey, Peter McIntyre, Chrissy Imai, Janaki Amin

• Surveillance of adverse effects following immunisation in Australia, COVID-19 vaccines, 2021

  Catherine Glover, Lucy Deng, Claire Larter, Catherine Brogan, Olivia Richardson, Yuanfei Anny Huang, Elspeth Kay, Kristine Macartney, Nicholas Wood

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 84 Reporting period ending 11 February 2024

  Viral Respiratory Diseases Epidemiology and Surveillance Section

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 85 Reporting period ending 10 March 2024

  Viral Respiratory Diseases Epidemiology and Surveillance Section

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 83 Reporting period ending 14 January 2024

  Viral Respiratory Diseases Epidemiology and Surveillance Section

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 81 Reporting period ending 19 November 2023

  Viral Respiratory Diseases Epidemiology and Surveillance Section

• A Comparison of post-COVID vaccine myocarditis classification using the Brighton Collaboration criteria versus (United States) Centers for Disease Control criteria: an update

  Kevin M Slater, Jim P Buttery, Nigel W Crawford, Daryl R Cheng

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 82 Reporting period ending 17 December 2023

  Viral Respiratory Diseases Epidemiology and Surveillance Section

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 80 Reporting period ending 22 October 2023

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 79 Reporting period ending 24 September 2023

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 78 Reporting period ending 27 August 2023

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• First documented gymnasium cluster of COVID-19 with whole genome sequencing in Australia

  Bhavi Ravindran, Elizabeth Gatens, Naru Pal, Vicky Sheppeard, Anna Calik, Kate Alexander, Khizar Ashraf, Alicia Arnott, Vitali Sintchenko, Craig B Dalton

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 77 Reporting period ending 30 July 2023

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 76 Reporting period ending 2 July 2023

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• A low burden of severe illness: the COVID-19 Omicron outbreak in the remote Torres and Cape region of Far North Queensland

  Caroline Taunton, Leanne Hawthorne , Rittia Matysek , Johanna Neville

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 75 Reporting period ending 4 June 2023

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• Lessons from a COVID-19 outbreak in the disability support sector, Australian Capital Territory, August 2021

  Aruna Phabmixay, Ben Polkinghorne, Alexandra Marmor, Nevada Pingault, Timothy Sloan-Gardner, Martyn Kirk

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 74 Reporting period ending 7 May 2023

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• Erratum: COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 72 (Reporting period 13 February – 12 March 2023) Erratum to Commun Dis Intell (2018) 2023;47 (https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.19)

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 73 Reporting period ending 9 April 2023

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• Erratum: COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 71 (Reporting period 16 January – 12 February 2023)

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• Using silent area analysis to inform a COVID-19 public health response in Hunter New England, regional New South Wales

  Michelle Butler, Benjamin Elton, David M Durrheim

• ATAGI Targeted Review 2021: the national COVID-19 vaccination program

  Sanjay Jayasinghe, Cyra Patel, Lucy Armstrong, Clayton Chiu, Kristine Macartney, Katie Flanagan, Katherine Gibney, Michelle Giles, Nigel Crawford, Allen Cheng, Chris Blyth

• Cohorting children in a childcare setting: a strategy to reduce SARS-CoV-2 Delta transmission, August-September 2021

  Yasmin Lisson, Alexandra Marmor, Algreg Gomez, Robyn Hall, Amy Elizabeth Parry, Rose Wright, Aparna Lal

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 72 Reporting period ending 12 March 2023

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 71 Reporting period ending 12 February 2023

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• Wave of COVID-19 outbreaks in Gold Coast residential aged care facilities after easing travel restrictions into Queensland

  Candice Colbran, Fiona May, Fiona Vosti, Tracy Bladen, Andre Wattiaux, Vicki Slinko

• Identifying a more severe emergent COVID-19 variant using Emergency Departments’ routinely collected clinical measures

  Adelaide Nyinawingeri, Michael Staff

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 70 Reporting period ending 15 January 2023

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 69 Reporting period ending 18 December 2022

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• Serology study of healthcare workers following a hospital-based outbreak of COVID-19 in North West Tasmania, Australia, 2020

  Michelle McPherson, Nicola Stephens, Kylie J Smith, M Therese Mafori, Meru Sheel, Louise Cooley, Belinda McEwan, Mark Veitch, Fay H Johnston

• A Comparison of post-COVID vaccine myocarditis classification using the Brighton Collaboration criteria versus Centre for Disease Control criteria

  Tessa R Marshall, Silja Schrader, Laura Voss, Jim P Buttery, Nigel W Crawford, Daryl R Cheng

• The Epidemiology of the COVID-19 pandemic in the small, low-resource country of Timor-Leste, January 2020 – June 2022

  Maria AV Niha, Anthony DK Draper, Odete da Silva Viegas, Rui M de Araujo, Josefina C Joao, Endang da Silva, Ismail Barreto, Nevio Sarmento, Tessa Oakley, Filipe de Neri Machado, Nicholas SS Fancourt, Ian Marr, Liliana N dos Santos Fernandes, Noemia Martins, Paul Arkell, Ari JP Tilman, Benjamin Dingle, Carlito C Freitas, Partha S Bhowmick, Sarah Sheridan, Benjamin P Howden, Jennifer Yan, Joshua R Francis, Nelson Martins

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 68 Reporting period ending 20 November 2022

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 67 Reporting period ending 23 October 2022

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 66 Reporting period ending 25 September 2022

  COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team

• ATAGI 2022 Annual Statement on Immunisation

  Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation, Catherine T Tran, Madeline Valeri, Clayton Chiu, Michelle L Giles, Allen C Cheng, Kristine K Macartney, Christopher C Blyth, Nigel W Crawford

• Public health response to a norovirus viral gastroenteritis outbreak in early childhood learning centres in Victoria, Australia, 2021

  George P Drewett, Anna-Lena Arnold, Leesa Bruggink, Sarah Borg, Kaye Sturge, Bruce Bolam

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 65 Reporting period ending 28 August 2022

  COVID-19 National Incident Room Surveillance Team

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 64 Reporting period ending 31 July 2022

  COVID-19 National Incident Room Surveillance Team

• Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant on a single liquified natural gas (LNG) vessel, with estimates of vaccine effectiveness

  Nicolas Smoll, Jacina Walker, Mahmudul Hassan Al Imam, Jill Auriac, Ross Andrews, Andrew Jeremijenko, Michael Kirk, Gulam Khandaker

• Erratum: Utilisation of antimicrobials used to treat bacterial pneumonia in principal referral hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia, 2020: Erratum to Commun Dis Intell (2018) 2022;46 (https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2021.46.6)

  Erin Conner, Kavita Rasiah, Nadine Hillock

• Using artificial intelligence for personal protective equipment guidance for healthcare workers in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

  Veronica A Preda, Anand Jayapadman, Alexandra Zacharakis, Farah Magrabi, Terry Carney, Peter Petocz, Michael Wilson

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 63 Reporting period ending 3 July 2022

  COVID-19 National Incident Room Surveillance Team

• Pens down: An outbreak of the B.1.617.2 SARS-CoV-2 variant in an Australian high school, August 2021

  Keeley Allen, Alexandra Marmor, Davoud Pourmarzi

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 62 Reporting period ending 5 June 2022

  COVID-19 National Incident Room Surveillance Team

• Vaccine breakthrough infections in a highly-vaccinated Australian population during a SARS-CoV-2 Delta outbreak

  Meru Sheel, Tze Vun Voo, Nevada Pingault, Timothy S Sloan-Gardner, Alexandra Marmor, Martyn D Kirk, Vanessa Johnston, Kerryn Coleman

• COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 61 Reporting period ending 8 May 2022

  COVID-19 National Incident Room Surveillance Team