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Pandemic policy experts offer 10 recommendations that could reduce the risk that a bad flu season on top of the COVID-19 pandemic will overwhelm hospitals.
Checking for symptoms is just the beginning. Here are 10 ways schools can help keep children, families and faculty safe.
As we venture out into the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, treating each interaction as a type of micro-negotiation provides a helpful road map for navigating potentially tricky situations.
Life in a honey bee hive is all about cooperating for the collective good.
But will the new normal only be feasible for the well off?
We believe New Zealand can eliminate COVID-19 again. But it could do more to speed up that process with mandatory masks and tighter controls on high-risk venues, including bars, gyms and churches.
Melbourne’s stage 4 lockdown forbids residents travelling more than 5km from home during their daily hour of exercise. Fine for those in leafy suburbs, but not for those with less greenery nearby.
Rather than a vaccine to beef up your immune system, a psychoactive substance could boost your cooperative, pro-social behavior – curtailing the selfish actions that spur on coronavirus’s spread.
We need to keep social distancing and avoiding indoor spaces, even if the official rules have changed. A microbiologist explains why.
Border restrictions and quarantine have kept COVID-19 out of New Zealand, but new modelling shows contact tracing and quick isolation would control an outbreak, without the need for another lockdown.
Social distancing and physical changes to the environment pose significant challenges to people with visual impairments.
By using computer crowd simulations, we can figure out how large numbers of people can move around public space while maintaining social distancing.
It’s worth going out of your way to ensure that kids practice interacting with others and maintain their friendships.
It’s easier said than done, acknowledges a nursing professor with four children. But it’s going to be necessary during the coronavirus pandemic.
The post-pandemic office will be a lot more flexible but still will be necessary to help build relationships among colleagues, according to three scholars.
A new survey found that dealing with emotional customers over issues such as wearing a mask is taking an increasing toll.
Nearly every country in the world shuttered its schools due to COVID-19. Now, from Israel to Uruguay, many students are back in class, with varying degrees of success.
Victoria recorded 484 new cases on a day when COVID-19 should have been firmly on the decline if the latest lockdown was working. It’s time to contemplate even stricter measures for longer-term gain.
Research suggests the coronavirus pandemic’s greatest impact is due to people changing their behaviour voluntarily. So we may be overestimating the costs of government restrictions.
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Texas A&M University
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Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan
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Regents and Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M University
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Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Health Policy and Management, Texas A&M University
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Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
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Professor, Département des sciences de l'activité physique, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Associate Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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