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Researchers around the world are working together to control the coronavirus outbreak, now known as COVID-19. This is what’s behind the global effort to develop a vaccine.
There’s no evidence the new coronavirus is airborne. It appears to spread by larger droplets, direct contact and contaminated surfaces or objects.
What’s the best way to tackle coronavirus myths and misinformation if they come up in everyday conversation?
The prevalence of racism and scapegoating in the face of catastrophes and disasters has a much longer history than the new coronavirus outbreak.
Poor communication and misinformation is yet another way an epidemic can cause harm. So it’s important health authorities get their messaging right.
Chinese travellers help create about 0.6% of Australia’s GDP. How long we keep them out will make a difference to economic growth.
While US residents may feel safe from the effects of the coronavirus, the aftershocks could be damaging in unexpected ways. The disruption to China’s supply chain could cause drug shortages.
A new tool has been developed to track the history of the novel coronavirus and other recent outbreaks.
As cities have shut down and residential compounds have issued curfews, social media in China have become more important than ever. But it is a place of rumours and mistruths.
Misinformation spreads fast when people are afraid and a contagious and potentially fatal disease is frightening. This provides the ideal emotionally charged context for rumours to thrive.
In the real world, new diseases emerge from complex environments. To learn more about how, scientists set up whole artificial ecosystems in the lab, instead of focusing on just one factor at a time.
Suspending flights and screening passengers is mainly about reassuring us, not keeping us healthy.
The World Health Organization has said the coronavirus is not yet a pandemic. That raises a question: just what is a pandemic? An expert explains.
We have a strong tendency to overreact emotionally and underreact behaviourally to news of infectious diseases.
The Chinese Communist Party has long used healthcare as part of its propaganda operation.
Coronavirus can cause lung damage, pneumonia and multi-organ failure, or sepsis, among other things.
The economic impacts of the new coronavirus on the travel and tourism industry will be felt in every corner of the world and almost every sector of the economy.
Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the 2019-nCoV outbreak, is now under lockdown. What does that mean for its 11 million citizens, and for the rest of the world?
The declaration does not mean the risk to Canadians has changed, but it does mean Canada must step up to help those countries with weaker heath-care systems.
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Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Virologist, The University of Queensland
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Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Health and Medical Humanities, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine
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Professor, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Professor of Consumer Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, and Professor of Neurology, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Vice President for Research, Colorado State University
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PhD, Behavioural Neuroscience, Concordia University
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Professor of Marketing and Product Innovation, Brock University
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Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University