FOX News host Sean Hannity (pictured here in 2018) gave credibility to a tweet he read out lout on his popular syndicated radio show, which called COVID-19 a fraud “to spread panic in the populace, manipulate the economy and suppress dissent.”
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Why have conspiracy theories so easily circulated during the COVID-19 pandemic? What do these theories tell us about societies and what challenges do they present?
COVID-19 cases as of March 22 2019.
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Scenario planning is common among multinationals and decision-makers. But some countries were better prepared for the coronavirus pandemic than others.
Helping the wounded.
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The spread of coronavirus highlights the urgent need for housing for people who have nowhere to live.
HIV activists in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa in 2004. Solidarity and organisation were key in fighting HIV stigma.
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Census data are used to determine federal funding on everything from highway construction to poverty services. With many students heading back to their parents’ homes, college towns may take a hit.
Traveling is risky during the coronavirus outbreak. Places like airports, bus stops, and gas stations especially so.
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Universities and colleges around the world are closing. People are fleeing from cities. Some people are being forced to move but others must weigh the risks and ethical concerns of travel.
Erica Cisneros helps her daughters, Emilia and Eden, with their schoolwork at their home on March 18, 2020 in San Anselmo, California.
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In past recessions, donors have tightened their pursestrings even as the need has grown. But two scholars explain why, at least for foundations, there’s room for more generosity in tough times.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, at a Senate GOP lunch meeting on March 20, 2020, to discuss the ‘phase 3’ coronavirus stimulus bill.
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Today’s coronavirus pandemic has echoes in the yellow fever pandemic of the 1790s. Then, as now, workers struggled with how to support themselves and their families. One federal agency had the answer.
The Plague of Athens.
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The Greeks treated their city-states like bodies. To protect them from disasters, it was the poor that were often sacrificed.
Health care systems around the world are ramping up their response to the spread of COVID-19, like this hospital in Washington state.
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The Morrison government would like the “national cabinet” to mean individual states, notably NSW and Victoria, just stay in line – notably the line the Feds want.
Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation and Wes Mountain, The Conversation
The regulations clearly proscribe some activities but are silent on others. So we asked two infectious disease researchers to reflect on some common scenarios.
Don’t want to shake hands, but don’t want to cause offence? Just smile, have a short sentence ready in advance, and make sure the other person knows you care about their feelings.
It’s hard to adopt a set of hard and fast rules with the advice changing so quickly. So it’s important you have a set of evidence-based principles to guide your decision-making about social contact.
A form of government rationing is now needed, says one of the UK’s leading food supply experts.
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne