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Il faut une réponse globale d'autant que les conséquences de l’épidémie seront beaucoup plus graves et durables dans les pays les plus pauvres.
The Battle for Britain has begun…but it’s not going very well.
When colonisers invaded the Americas, they brought with them waves of new diseases. This legacy continues to impact Indigenous communities.
Fear of COVID-19 has sparked some to react with violent racism towards Asian Americans and Canadians. This is not the first time fear of disease has led to outbreaks of violent anti-Asian racism.
To support precarious households that can’t access existing relief during lockdown and its aftermath, the government should implement a temporary increase in the value of the child support grant.
El periodismo también se la juega en la crisis del coronavirus. Dos expertos en Salud Pública de la Universidad de Oxford ofrecen diez consejos para que los medios se conviertan en un refugio seguro frente a la epidemia de desinformación.
Researchers around the world are working hard on developing a vaccine – but the process may still take 12-18 months. Here’s why.
Taking tranquilizers with opioids increases the risk of overdose tenfold.
The consequences will be far more severe and long lasting in poorer countries.
Some medieval Christian women locked themselves away in the name of their faith. Here are their insights into self-isolation.
In the eight weeks before the first person with COVID-19 died in the UK mortality rates had been mercifully low.
Being made redundant reduces a person’s life satisfaction by about 20% – and this psychological scarring can even remain after getting another job.
What treatment do you want if you fall critically ill?
Help stop the infodemic.
We might recover our sense of being part of society.
Unless we know what is in the ocean, we can’t protect the biggest part of the planet.
By imagining a unique scenario to answer “yes” or “no” questions, this research could potentially be used to communicate with locked-in patients.
Western literature began with a plague and ever since, writers have been using pandemics to comment on society.
Snake farms run the risk of being collateral damage in Chain’s fight against coronavirus, yet they probably help, rather than harm, the fight against disease.
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Director of the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
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Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Oxford
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Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbiology, University of Oxford
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Researcher in Music, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in Climate Change Biology, University of Oxford
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Senior Researcher in Economics, University of Oxford
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Global Head of Wildlife Research, World Animal Protection, and Visiting Researcher, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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DPhil Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
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Professor of Climate Science, University of Oxford
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Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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Stipendiary Lecturer in Biology, University of Oxford
