Humans can identify asymptomatic cases, build trust and assauge fears. Apps cannot.
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Authorities around the world can do more to ensure that correct information and messages on the pandemic reach everybody.
COVID-19 differs significantly from HIV and Ebola. But the potential consequences of having a misinformed public are similar.
Bats have been the reservoir for recent disease outbreaks, including SARS and the current COVID-19 pandemic. But it’s human activity that allows the virus to cross over.
During epidemics, the measures taken to protect populations and to keep health systems afloat leave women and girls vulnerable to violence.
COVID-19 is having a significant impact on the health, economic and social status of slum dwellers.
Covid-19, like other major epidemics, is not unrelated to the biodiversity and climate crisis we are experiencing.
Nurses on the front lines of a pandemic need education, training and institutional support.
Ubuntu provides a language for people to participate in preventive action, even if this involves practices such as lockdowns.
Unfortunately, disrespectful and neglectful treatment of women during childbirth, including verbal, physical and emotional abuse is not uncommon.
Given that some people look to religious authorities not health officials in times of crisis, faith leaders can promote hand-washing and social distancing to slow the spread of coronavirus.
African countries face unique challenges in their efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19, but lessons learned in other regions where the coronavirus has already peaked may be helpful.
Zoonotic diseases can emerge closer to home than you realise.
An expert on forensic science explains the critical role of coroners and pathologists in the COVID-19 crisis, as many cities struggle to manage the soaring number of dead bodies.
Military support for coronavirus responses must remain subordinate to public health expertise – and learn from previous epidemics.
A lockdown by itself is not a magic wand for fighting coronavirus.
Before a vaccine is available to teach your immune system to ward off the coronavirus, maybe you can directly use molecules that have already fought it in other people.
Emphasizing foreign origins of a disease can have racist connotations and implications for how people understand their own risk of disease.
The economic impact of the disease will have dramatic effects on the well-being of families and communities
The biggest lesson has been that controlling a disease outbreak like Ebola is impossible without community trust and engagement.
Top contributors
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Lecturer in Virology, Queen's University Belfast
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
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Part-time lecturer at the Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard University, and Lecturer at the School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Liberia
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Lecturer, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster University
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Principal Medical Scientist (PhD MPH), National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Senior lecturer, Njala University
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Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University
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Principal Scientist and Canada Research Chair in Zoonotic Virus and Animal Reservoirs at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization and Co-Lead of One Health at the University of Saskatchewan, University of Saskatchewan
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Senior Lecturer in Communicable Disease Epidemiology, University of Sydney
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Head of the Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Professor of Immunology and Infection, Edinburgh Napier University
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Associate professor, University of Sydney