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Older adults who are caregivers to someone with a health condition or disability report severe and unrelenting levels of stress and isolation during COVID-19 due to pandemic-related protocols.
Increased isolation has worsened symptoms for some, but allowed others to reconnect with old hobbies or learn new skills.
Controlling transmission isn’t as straightforward as simply replicating China’s policies in the west.
We interviewed 22 low-income Australians aged 65 or older. They present a heartbreaking picture of energy poverty and the loneliness that comes with it.
How will we record the pandemic and its effectson our lives? How will we look back at the significance of the present in the future?
In the face of stricter rules, the police and government need to clarify messaging around sanctions
A lockdown sound map project asked people to actively listen to the sounds being revealed in the absence of normal everyday noise.
Stay-at-home measures allowed many people to slow down, reflect and invest more time in themselves.
We are still only beginning to understand the psychological effects that pandemic restrictions are having on us.
Dead cities are enduring images in post-apocalyptic literature and cinema.
Rollout of COVID-19 vaccines has begun. But getting the jab doesn’t mean abandoning masks, distancing and handwashing. Here’s why the current preventive measures must continue post-vaccine.
Nurseries play a hugely important role in local communities.
Exaggerating how much lockdown improved air quality could allow us to underestimate the scale of the air pollution problem.
Bright, kinetic and celebrity-studded, the BBC’s schools output has got the tone right for teaching a generation of screen-addicted youth.
Each state has responded differently to the latest outbreaks. But all have mounted effective responses.
With the third national lockdown under way, how can E.M. Forster’s neglected masterpiece help us survive the next few months?
With many more months of lockdowns, mask mandates and quarantining in our futures, the government needs to get its messaging just right and we all need to manage our expectations appropriately.
Hooking up with a stranger is against the law under lockdown, so more people are going online for their thrills.
Greater Brisbane will spend the next three days in lockdown, although this time around it’s to ensure no further spread from a single known case, rather than to suppress an existing outbreak.
Top contributors
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Former Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Chair of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies, Adjunct Professor in the School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professional Research Fellow, Victoria University
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Senior Researcher, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Fellow in Health Economics, University of York
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield