Unless you work in health care, as I will. Then you need to be at least triple vaccinated. Also the need for an influenza vaccination (and probably every year).

but carl refuses to accept this guys advice.

and he sounds pretty well qualified


Dr John Gerrard, Chief Health Officer
BSc (Med) MB BS (Syd) MSc (Microbiology) DLSHTM DTM&H (Lon) FRACP

Dr John Gerrard will officially commence as Queensland’s Chief Health Officer in mid-December 2021.

Dr Gerrard completed his medical and specialist training in Sydney and London between 1980 and 1993 quickly becoming one of Australia’s leading infectious disease specialists. As a young doctor in 1993, Dr Gerrard rewrote Australia’s medical history by identifying the country’s earliest known case of AIDS.

Dr Gerrard moved to the Gold Coast in 1994 to take up the post of Director of Infectious Diseases at the Gold Coast Hospital. Like many other Australians, he first visited Queensland for Expo 88 and immediately fell in love with it.

The international threat of SARS in 2003 highlighted to Dr Gerrard the deficiencies in existing hospitals when it came to the risk of airborne infectious diseases. This led Dr Gerrard to help design the new Gold Coast University Hospital with the capacity to safely manage a pandemic such as COVID-19.

Throughout his time on the Gold Coast, he developed an international reputation for research in emerging infectious diseases and an organism called “Heterorhabditis gerrardi”, that glows in the dark, was named in his honour by American researchers in 2009. He is the only living Australian with a human pathogen named after him.

Since 2011 Dr Gerrard has been the principal investigator on a series of malaria vaccine trials in collaboration with Professor Michael Good from the Institute for Glycomics.

In 2014, he travelled to Sierra Leone during the West African Ebola epidemic. There, he formed part of a team that established Australia’s first Ebola Treatment Centre outside Freetown. Subsequently, he was awarded the Australian Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal.

More recently, Dr Gerrard managed Queensland’s first cases of COVID-19 when three families travelled from Wuhan, China in January 2020. Shortly after, he travelled to Tokyo as part of a mission to assist Japanese authorities in containing the outbreak of COVID-19 aboard the Diamond Princess.

These experiences led him to establish the GCUH as a COVID-designated hospital in 2020 in preparation for the arrival of the pandemic.

In April 2021, Dr Gerrard travelled to the Dutch Antilles as part of a Dutch-sponsored mission where he first experienced the full impact of COVID-19.

Dr Gerrard enjoys cycling and building and flying model aircraft. He is fluent in French. He and his wife, Anthea, have two adult daughters.

Current traffic light level

GREEN

The traffic light level is reviewed regularly. Last reviewed on 18 May 2023.

The Qld. Govt. has plugged a potential embarrassing leak in its wall of disinformation about COVID.
Go back to sleep folks.

Why am I not surprised to find Sir Lastnail believing anything
that One Nation's moronic Malcolm Roberts claims?  CheckMate
details why a claim by Roberts about a recent "staggering decline"
in Australian births doesn't add up.

CheckMate.

In 2021, Australia’s medicines regulator blasted senator Roberts
for "dangerous and incorrect" suggestions about deaths linked to
coronavirus vaccines.

The TGA boss confirmed that there had been only nine deaths
linked to vaccines in Australia during the rollout, telling Roberts
he was factually wrong to claim more than 500 people died from
the COVID vaccines.

"It is quite incorrect and in fact quite dangerous to assert that over
500 people have died as a result of COVID vaccination" the TGA said
during a Senate estimates hearing.

—Roberts and Sir Lastnail would make a great tag team in the   
   Ignorance Olympics LOL.

Carl D wrote on Jun 4^th, 2023 at 4:20pm:



i shot off ...