Workforce Management during the Time of COVID-19—Lessons Learned and Future Measures

R Bardhan, T Byrd, J Boyd - COVID, 2022 - mdpi.com
Industries worldwide have faced continuous burdens since the beginning of the COVID-19
pandemic, while adjusting to rapidly changing rules and regulations. Industries need to be …

Evolutionary rate of SARS-CoV-2 increases during zoonotic infection of farmed mink

AF Porter, DFJ Purcell, BP Howden… - Virus Evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
To investigate genetic signatures of adaptation to the mink host, we characterised the
evolutionary rate heterogeneity in mink-associated severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Measuring unequal distribution of pandemic severity across census years, variants of concern and interventions

QD Nguyen, SL Chang, CM Jamerlan… - Population Health …, 2023 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic stressed public health systems worldwide due to
emergence of several highly transmissible variants of concern. Diverse and complex …

Mental health and wellbeing of health and aged care workers in Australia, May 2021–June 2022: a longitudinal cohort study

SL McGuinness, O Eades, KL Grantham… - Medical Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To assess the mental health and wellbeing of health and aged care workers in
Australia during the second and third years of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) …

Persistence of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Australia: The impact of fluctuating social distancing

SL Chang, QD Nguyen, A Martiniuk… - PLOS Global Public …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
We modelled emergence and spread of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Australia
between December 2021 and June 2022. This pandemic stage exhibited a diverse …

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

FM Shearer, L Edwards, M Kirk… - Communicable …, 2024 - research.monash.edu
Disease surveillance data was critical in supporting public health decisions throughout the
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. At the same time, the unprecedented …

Assessing the effect of model specification and prior sensitivity on Bayesian tests of temporal signal

JH Tay, A Kocher, S Duchene - PLOS Computational Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Our understanding of the evolution of many microbes has been revolutionised by the
molecular clock, a statistical tool to infer evolutionary rates and timescales from analyses of …

The importance of utilizing travel history metadata for informative phylogeographical inferences: a case study of early SARS-CoV-2 introductions into Australia

AF Porter, L Featherstone, CR Lane… - Microbial …, 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
Inferring the spatiotemporal spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) via Bayesian phylogeography has been complicated by the overwhelming …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of COVID-19 on people with non-functioning spleens in Australia

M Barlow, P Jones, M Weerasuria, J O'bryan… - Journal of Infection and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background COVID-19 has had enormous impact on health and social systems, with
stringent public health measures enacted across Australia. The virus itself disproportionately …

Decoding the fundamental drivers of phylodynamic inference

LA Featherstone, S Duchene… - Molecular Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Despite its increasing role in the understanding of infectious disease transmission at the
applied and theoretical levels, phylodynamics lacks a well-defined notion of ideal data and …