Getting pharmacies more involved could be a game changer, particularly for reaching minorities, older adults without internet access and others left behind.
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People often turn to rituals to promote health and reduce anxiety during periods of high risk.
By 2030, the WHO projects a worldwide workforce shortfall of about 18 million health-care workers, with potentially deadly consequences for patients, economies and our communities.
Older adults who are caregivers to someone with a health condition or disability report severe and unrelenting levels of stress and isolation during COVID-19 due to pandemic-related protocols.
Our lives consist of a complex and dense web of interactions that ultimately make physical and social distancing attempts impossible. And this has always been the case in human society.
Ever since the 2001 SARS outbreak and H5N1 avian flu in 2003, we’ve developed tools to monitor diseases that transmitted from animals to humans. But what does a large-scale roll-out entail?
Our social connections and interactions form networks. Studying these networks reveal the ways in which both memes and viruses travel through populations
The type and amount of misinformation closely tracks tensions in US-China relations. Effectively countering the misinformation comes down to who does the debunking.
History holds some lessons about when scaring people to change their behavior works. Two public health experts offer a case for caution right now.
The results from an emerging study suggest governments should act quickly if they plan to impose travel bans – before the virus can spread widely to other countries.
With slow vaccine distribution and manufacturing, some people won’t get the second dose on time. But does it matter?
The way politicians and public health officials have handled the coronavirus pandemic so far has earned people’s trust. But that trust is conditional.
A textual analysis of Joe Biden’s inaugural speech reveals the main lines of his future communication, which will be marked by a clear break with that of his predecessor.
The UK government has claimed the new British variant of the coronavirus may be 30% more deadly.
As the scale of the pandemic revealed itself in March, one small town in Newfoundland created a community-led meals-on-wheels to support its seniors.
One of the factors that has made COVID-19 so catastrophic in long-term care homes was lack of paid sick leave for low-wage workers.
Almost a third of legislatures had no direct oversight over the initial responses to the pandemic.
Two scholars of cities explain why dense, urban areas will survive – and thrive – long after the pandemic ends, and even if they don’t get a bailout.
While the whole world is obsessed by the COVID-19 pandemic, another equally deadly threat is going unnoticed: antibiotic resistance.
Jackson Mthembu’s death drives home the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
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