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How is RT-PCR used to diagnose COVID-19?
It’s fast, reliable and full of lines – but might look different to the PCR you learned about in school.
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Cartoon of the week – 15 September, 2021
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Confirmed COVID-19 case in Goonellabah
A local case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in the Lismore area.
COVID is here to stay
As a medical doctor of 30 years, and citizen, I have watched the last 18 months with confusion.
Initially...
First day out of lockdown – record high of NSW 1,599 new cases
NSW recorded yet another new record high 1,599 locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.
Modelling
Modelling the billions of connections within the human body to determine illness? Modelling one individual’s billions of connections to...
Farewell Sue – a much-loved Mullumbimbian
You could say that Sue Mallam was destined to run a business in Mullumbimby.
Stories about "interaction":
COVID-19 going viral on YouTube and Instagram
The world has certainly gotten smaller in recent weeks and people turn to the internet for entertainment, interaction, exercise and maybe just company. There is also a world of people out there wanting to share what they have.
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Queensland passes voluntary assisted dying laws
Dying with Dignity NSW has welcomed the passage of Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) laws in Queensland and is hoping that NSW Parliament resumes next month so that this issue can be addressed in NSW without further delay.
Byron Echo
Planning staff back Wilsons Creek DA, residents’ concerns downplayed
Paul Bibby - 0
Residents living near a proposed 15-lot housing development in Wilsons Creek say it will negatively impact a precious wildlife corridor on the site, exacerbate traffic safety problems on the surrounding roads, and damage the peaceful character of their quiet enclave.
Byron Echo
A moment of your life?
Six questions for Jehovah’s Witness doorknockers:
1. Are you aware that the 2016 Royal Commission into Institutional Handling of Child Sexual Abuse investigated 1006 alleged...
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Local mum features in documentary about the impacts and possible solutions around suicide
Eve Jeffery - 0
Murwillumbah mum Ursula has lived every parents worst nightmare – her child, at the age of just 17, took his own life – and a lot of time and energy, questions and conjecture and finger-pointing can rumble around this, but at the end of the day Ursula’s precious boy is gone and he’s not coming back.
