COVID winter ‘crisis’ looms as sub-variants stoke experts’ fears - The Age

Rising cases, new Omicron variants and colder, damper weather threaten to fuel an outbreak that could, some scientists say, spur a return of the mask mandate.

The thing thats different about us compared with countries in the northern hemisphere, is that were going to be heading into two things at once: winter and the BA.4 and the BA.5 epidemics, Trauer sai… [+3618 chars]

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