As the COVID-19 pandemic fades, we may debate whether public health responses could have been better. But first we need to understand what public health errors are — and are not.
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Canada’s ‘us against them’ COVID-19 strategy is amplifying social division, creating major psychosocial impacts, and has resulted in a significant decrease in trust toward authorities.
In most countries, ignorance about how to use evidence properly to inform decision-making has led to missteps during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s how to do better.
Most Canadians support government measures to help control the spread of COVID-19, according to a public opinion study. But they’re growing weary of the pandemic.
The emergence of community fridges during the pandemic helps communities help each other while fighting food waste.
Scientists can be asked to help find solutions during disasters. A study of how archaeologists worked on the problem of looting during the Syrian war offers lessons for science done during crisis.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, governments in Canada have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on outside consulting firms like McKinsey, Deloitte and EY with almost no public oversight.
Routine collection of work information from people testing positive for COVID-19 from the start of the pandemic would have enabled better understanding of the role of workplaces in transmission.
Since late July, China has faced its biggest challenge since the first wave in Wuhan.
The “Freedom Day” rhetoric around the end of COVID-19 restrictions can be best understood through the lens of propaganda.
As the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions and quarantines continues into their second year, more people are experiencing an acute form of COVID-boredom.
Watch two of Australia and New Zealand’s top vaccine and virus experts answering questions about COVID-19. This was filmed at a Conversation reader event with Avid Reader bookshop.
Australia found shelter for more than 33,000 rough sleepers and other homeless people during the pandemic, but a coming surge in homelessness demands a comprehensive national housing strategy.
To thrive commercially, sports teams need competition. Multiple leagues is the best way to achieve this.
Eating at a restaurant and want to stay COVID safe? Check to see if staff are sanitising surfaces, wearing masks, using contactless payment, and spacing out customers.
Work in the sexual services industry has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and workers have been left without access to government support.
Victoria has recorded its largest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases. It might be time to return to a statewide lockdown.
Australia’s COVID-19 response was bettered only by South Korea and Latvia, according to a new United Nations report. Just don’t ask how we’re doing on climate and sustainability.
Amazon’s planned upcoming ‘Just Walk Out’ technology will let customers take items off a store’s shelf, bag them, and walk straight out.
The extraordinary scope and scale of the COVID-19 disaster at Canada’s long-term care centres would seem to warrant a public inquiry. But there are no guarantees there will actually be one.
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Research epidemiologist, Instructor, Harvard University
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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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Professor of Economics, University of Reading
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Professor of Virology, Head of School (School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences) and UQ vaccine project co-leader, The University of Queensland
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Senior Fellow, Centre for Free Expression, Toronto Metropolitan University; York University, Canada
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Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, York University, Canada
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Professor of Housing and Communities, University of Huddersfield
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Professor in Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Evidence-Support Systems, McMaster University
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PhD Candidate, Political Science, Simon Fraser University
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Distinguished Professor, University of Otago
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Windsor
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia