It can feel like everyone is stewing in anxiety about COVID-19 and seeing other people freak out can make you freak out more. A psychiatrist explains this phenomenon, and how to keep it in check.
It took decades for scientists to recognize HIV/AIDS as a new disease, and years longer to mobilize an effective response with broad public support. Will the US do better against novel coronavirus?
The federal-state national cabinet is being dubbed a “war” cabinet, as the government rushes to meet the social, health, and economic demands of the rapidly escalating coronavirus pandemic.
Tested positive for COVID-19 or are awaiting test results? Yes, you can go out to the garden, but you should be wearing a mask. And no, you can’t walk the dog.
Currently, the number of confirmed global COVID-19 cases is doubling about every six days. At this rate, Australia’s health sector will be unable to cope.
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.
As the new coronavirus has spread around the world, sporting matches and events have been staged behind closed doors, postponed and increasingly cancelled outright.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand