Scenario planning is common among multinationals and decision-makers. But some countries were better prepared for the coronavirus pandemic than others.
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The Lady with the Lamp also did some of her most important work from home.
The spread of coronavirus highlights the urgent need for housing for people who have nowhere to live.
The agents causing illness do not care for our assumptions about our alleged superiority on the planet, nor do they discriminate.
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.
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.
Before schools and workplaces closed, people could have been exposed. How do we best manage that?
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.
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 Greeks treated their city-states like bodies. To protect them from disasters, it was the poor that were often sacrificed.
Citizens around the world look warily at the rates of illnesses and deaths at home and abroad as the economic effects of COVID-19 start to hit.
What treatment do you want if you fall critically ill?
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.
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.
With people panic buying and supermarket shelves empty, the country’s ability to feed itself is being tested.
Flexibility and planning are key to managing boundaries if you’re working from home and have to look after kids.
Tens of thousands of New Zealanders don’t have secure or adequate accommodation – so how can they safely self-isolate in NZ’s lockdown? But there are solutions – and here’s where to start.
Shutting down the stock market would be like closing our eyes and shooting the messenger.
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