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It’s still reasonably easy to catch a cold even during lockdown.
Word from The Hill: three states in lockdown
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with politics + society editor, Amanda Dunn
Public health information for migrant communities needs to cover off the basics but it also needs to provide nuanced messaging to counter myths and misinformation about COVID-19.
The good news is Victoria is more likely to reach zero case of community transmission sooner if vaccination rates pick up, even modestly.
How the public thinks and feels about restrictions is far more complicated and conflicted than is typically reported.
Contrary to expectations, researchers found that overall contraceptive use increased in most settings.
When to reopen is a difficult decision that has required authorities to look for the least bad option.
We should move rapidly to reduce fear, improve vaccination rates, improve treatments and reduce complications as we do with other diseases we can’t eliminate or fully protect against.
Uganda needs to activate the community engagement pillar and resource the new strategy that’s in place.
The nice way to describe a new study suggesting lockdowns haven’t saved lives is that it’s ‘brave’.
Lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19 had various effects on food as it went from farms to plates.
A society in crisis is more than the sum of its flawed parts.
Our modelling shows the elimination strategy, including early, sharp lockdowns, remains Australia’s best policy.
Ready to party post-pandemic, but at the same time feeling shy? Here’s how social isolation affects the brain – and what research suggests about the effects of resocialization.
There’s always an element of ‘hindsight being 20/20’ whenever we’re evaluating a lockdown.
Stronger stay-at-home measures led to bigger reductions in crime – though these changes soon began to reverse.
COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations have risen over the past month, but more time to vaccinate people could stem the tide.
Different people and groups have differing, and often opposing, goals that they value differently. That makes public discussion, compromise and agreement difficult.
Despite calls to use them, traditional cost-benefit calculations haven’t featured in the UK’s lockdown decisions.
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