Genomic sequencing: what it is and how it’s being used against Covid-19 in Victoria


Authors: Elias Visontay@EliasVisontay What is genomic sequencing? Genomic sequencing analyses the virus sample taken from a diagnosed patient and compares it with other cases. Prior to Covid-19, genomic sequencing has…[...]

An application of slow feature analysis to the genetic sequences of coronaviruses and influenza viruses


Authors: Anastasios A. Tsonis, Geli Wang, Lvyi Zhang, Wenxu Lu, Aristotle Kayafas & Katia Del Rio-Tsonis Mathematical approaches have been for decades used to probe the structure of nucleotide sequences. This has led to the development…[...]

Chronic fatigue syndrome and long covid: moving beyond the controversy


Authors: Melanie Newman, freelance journalist Many patients with “long” covid are experiencing extreme fatigue, a situation that has re-polarised approaches to treatment and rehabilitation. Melanie Newman reports “I submitted the first positive…[...]

How to combat ‘COVID fatigue’: Medical experts on what works — and doesn’t


Authors: Meredith Deliso "Throughout pandemics, the psychological footprint is often way bigger than the medical footprint," Dr. Claude Mellins, a medical psychologist who co-leads a pandemic initiative called CopeColumbia for…[...]