Football glory costs money.
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Much more than trophies are at stake when colleges recruit football players.
How long will you wait?
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In a well-functioning health care system, the emergency room would be able to meet the needs of all of its patients in a timely manner.
Nurse Cheedy Jaja in Sierre Leone in 2015, where he helped treat patients with Ebola during the West Africa outbreak.
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Nurses on the front lines of a pandemic need education, training and institutional support.
A 1620 engraving depicts tobacco being prepared for export from Jamestown, Virginia.
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During two 17th-century medical calamities, economic imperatives outweighed moral concerns.
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Almost everyone agrees with lockdown measures, but their feelings about doing it are very different.
Take steps to protect yourself while shopping.
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Frequently-touched surfaces including trolley handles and card readers carry the highest number of virus particles.
Social distancing on the metro in Milan.
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An audio version of an in depth article on four possible futures for the world after coronavirus.
Armed protestors gather in Michigan to oppose lockdown measures.
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Thomas Hobbes described a dark place called the ‘state of nature’. But he also showed us how to avoid falling into it.
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Amid emotional devastation and uncertainty, coronavirus is providing the potential for more connectedness, and for radically changing the meanings of community itself.
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How do you maintain social distancing when you can’t see?
Plague sufferers being disinfected in Karachi, 1897.
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Racism against fellow Indians and classism against the poor characterised India’s early response to coronavirus, that is reminiscent of British imperial public health policies.
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Technology exists that can verify if you’ve come into contact with an infected person without revealing your location or identity – governments just need to be willing to use it.
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The open-plan, shared office may be a thing of the past if physical distancing and stricter hygiene become the new normal.
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Drop, suspend, downgrade or keep? Many people are feeling the pinch and wondering if private heath insurance is worth keeping during the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s what to consider.
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Jobkeeper is far from perfect and open to abuse. On the face of it, it supports 6.6 million wages to save 1 million jobs.
Room lights in a hotel form the shape of a heart in Jakarta on April 25 2020. The lights were turned on as a symbol of support, gratitude and love for medical workers on the front line of handling the COVD-19 pandemic.
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Democracies such as the United States, Italy and Spain, as well as Indonesia, have so far failed to control the spread of the virus.
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Senator Katy Gallagher on the government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis
On this episode of Politics with Michelle Grattan, Katy Gallagher joins the podcast to discuss the recently formed select committee into COVID-19
Tally boards publicising the contributions of different suburbs during the second world war.
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We’ll need to spend at least an extra 15-20% of GDP per year. It’ll be more palatable if it is funded by COVID bonds.
A crowded walkway at Cronulla, NSW, makes it impossible for people to observe physical distancing rules while exercising.
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We’ve all seen the increases in people walking and cycling on shared paths so crowded it’s almost impossible to maintain physical distancing. This must be fixed, and quickly.
Joey Gibson, leader of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer, addresses a crowd on April 19, 2020, in Olympia, Washington, insisting the state lift restrictions put in place to help fight the coronavirus outbreak.
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Militant far-right groups are always looking to appear legitimate and to recruit more Americans to their causes.