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Curfews are associated with a long history of racism and prejudice.
Although demanding, disruptive and violent patients are a major contributor to physician burnout, solutions to address this increasing problem are not a priority.
In order to track the pandemic, the Public Health Agency of Canada has been using location data without explicit and informed consent. Transparency is key to building and maintaining trust.
A recent clinical trial shows that taking probiotics can lead to a quicker recovery from a coronavirus infection.
School districts across the US are starting to pay subs more and make it easier to become a sub – in an effort to keep classrooms operating despite large numbers of staff out sick.
As many people have died with COVID in Australia – more than 1,000 – as die from a bad year from influenza. Attention on them doesn’t seem to have spiked proportionately.
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with politics + society Senior Deputy Editor, Justin Bergman
After Premier Doug Ford announced “positive news,” I think about the widening inequality in our province, who the news is “positive” for and the death of caremongering.
A freedom of information request is only useful if you know how to read the data.
Most adults were prepared to sacrifice their rights to ensure the safety and health of all during the pandemic, averaging 74%.
Control measures may be easing, but don’t expect the world to return to how it was in January 2020.
Vaccines mandates for healthcare workers may have made sense earlier in the pandemic. But not now.
The science of stress explains why parenting during the pandemic feels so hard. Here are strategies from psychologists for taking back control when you dread yet another challenging day ahead.
The CDC’s updated mask guidelines say that cloth masks offer the least protection from COVID-19. Differences in the materials masks are made from and the ways they fit are the reason.
COVID is exacerbating, but isn’t the root cause of, the NHS’s current crisis.
In an effort to get as many people vaccinated as possible, some countries have used a stick. Maybe a carrot would be better.
Variant-specific vaccines would undoubtedly increase immunity. But waves of new variants would engulf the population faster than these vaccines could ever be deployed.
There is an urgent need to understand international students’ unique vulnerabilities and to develop effective policy responses.
Recent research found around a quarter of people with classic COVID symptoms didn’t get tested.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Adelaide University
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Director of Research, Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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