The new issue of Sax Institute journal, Public Health Research and Practice came out yesterday, with stories on the news pace, not common among research journals.

Raina MacIntyre (UNSW) asks if COVID-19 can be contained (it can’t). She explores what will happen next and what we should try to do about it; “we should persist with all feasible measures for as long as possible. Travel bans and quarantine are proven interventions, and especially critical for infections with pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic transmission. The public health goal is to prevent the epidemic becoming sustained in Australia, or if that is not possible, to delay it and reduce the total number of cases using all available interventions.”

And NSW Public Health researchers Wedyan Meshreky, Daneeta Hennessy, Robin Gilmour, Sean Tobin and Vicky Sheppeard publish on treating influenza in aged-care facilities.