Health
How vaccine hesitancy could undermine Australia’s Covid response – The Guardian
Intensive care doctor Rachel Heap works in the anti-vaccine capital of Australia and has seen babies die from preventable diseases
One autumn afternoon in sun-drenched Mullumbimby, intensive care doctor Rachel Heap came across a crowd milling beneath a local telecommunications tower.
Heap was exhausted. Shed spent the day treating Covid-19 patients at Lismore Base hospital.
Near the Mullumbimby post office, she could see a group of protesters who were breaking Covid restrictions. The crowd wore no masks and there was little physical distancing. They were chanting opposition to the 5G waves Telstra planned to send from the…
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