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Immunity from vaccines more consistent than infection
Both infection-induced and vaccine-induced immunity are durable for at least six months, the CDC determined; Pfizer’s vax revenue surged. Follow updates here.
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- Timothy Moore and Natasha Rudra
Yesterday
Travel insurance costs to rise nearly 10pc
Holidaymakers heading overseas should expect higher travel insurance bills and to pay for costly PCR tests.
- Lucas Baird
Health experts mixed on early freedoms for NSW
Medical experts have differing views on NSW’s plan to open up completely when 95 per cent of the population over 16 has been double vaccinated.
- Jill Margo and Finbar O'Mallon
Dancing is back: what you can do in NSW from Monday
Fully vaccinated Sydneysiders will have most of their freedoms back from Monday, November 8 after the state government brought forward its reopening road map.
ICAC findings on Berejiklian unlikely until 2022
ICAC ruling expected in 2022; NSW brings forward freedoms for fully vaccinated people, but unvaccinated people will have to wait until December 15; Victoria’s cases drop below 1000. Follow updates here.
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- Timothy Moore, Natasha Rudra and Tess Bennett
Now for the kids: FDA kicks off rush to vaccinate under-12s
The sign-off on Pfizer is the first green light for a Western-developed vaccine to be used in children younger than 12.
- Emma Connors
This Month
Crisis talks over French submarine anger
Former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian has denied she told her former chief of staff her relationship with Daryl Maguire had ended before she became premier; Queensland records one case; two deaths in the ACT. Follow updates here.
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- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Australia’s vaccine-led escape from the gilded cage has begun
NSW and Victoria are now showing how other states - including WA - can safely start to rejoin the world as soon as their vaccination rates catch up.
- The AFR View
New-generation vaccine may foil COVID-19 variants
While current vaccines direct antibodies at parts of the virus that can easily mutate, the new approach is to target a tiny part of the virus that cannot afford to change.
- Jill Margo
Fortress Australia crumbles as Sydney, Melbourne greet vaxxed arrivals
Fortress Australia crumbled on Monday as Sydney Airport welcomed its first planeloads of vaccinated overseas travellers who did not need to quarantine.
- Lucas Baird
COVID-19 sparks at-home HIV test revolution
Atomo Diagnostics has approval from the Therapeutic Goods Administration to supply and market its HIV testing kit.
- Tom McIlroy
Miners fear WA’s vax laws will stoke labour shortage
Miners fear a wave of resignations over WA’s mandatory vaccination laws could exacerbate labour shortages that have left some miners reporting staff turnover rates close to 50 per cent.
- Peter Ker
October
Australia welcomes Kiwis on Monday, Singaporeans later in November
From November 21, fully vaccinated travellers will be able to fly to Australia without isolating.
- Tom McIlroy
NSW mulls early freedoms for unvaccinated
The state is considering another change to its reopening road map as regional travel returns from Monday and quarantine ends for fully vaccinated travellers.
- Finbar O'Mallon
Wharfies sacked for refusing COVID-19 jab
The maritime union will defend the jobs of almost two dozen wharfies who were fired for not getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
- David Marin-Guzman
PM repeats call for pandemic origin to be investigated
Scott Morrison risks further backlash from China after repeating his call for the origins of COVID-19 to be investigated.
- Phillip Coorey
FDA paves way for Pfizer jabs for young kids
The top US health agency cleared kid-size doses — just a third of the amount given to teens and adults — for emergency use; NSW reports 236 new cases. Follow updates here.
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- Timothy Moore
- Opinion
- USA
Cowards, not crazies, are destroying America
When we talk about the GOP’s moral descent, we tend to focus on the obvious extremists but look no further than the party’s entire elected wing, argues Paul Krugman.
- Paul Krugman
Over quarter million S-E Australian homes without power
Former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian will return to ICAC Monday after a gruelling day; James Packer agrees to a forced sell down of his 37 per cent stake; 272,000 without power in S-E Australia. Follow updates here.
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- Timothy Moore, Natasha Rudra and Tom Burton
Mild COVID-19 cases to be treated in the home
Health Minister Greg Hunt said some COVID-19 settings would be adjusted, with only the most serious cases being treated in hospital.
- Tom McIlroy
