Gemma Ware, The Conversation e Daniel Merino, The Conversation
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Rolling out vaccines, sticking with public health measures, and keeping misinformation and complacency in check. These are just some of what to expect as the pandemic enters its second year.
Thomas Reevely, 10, takes part in a class meeting in Ottawa, April 3, 2020.
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Public health measures have helped control COVID-19 in Australia. But they’ve affected other winter viruses, too.
A COVID-19 vaccine is administered at a clinic at Olympic Stadium in Montréal on March 1, 2021, marking the beginning of mass vaccination in the Province of Québec based on age.
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With four COVID-19 vaccines approved for use in Canada, it’s time to answer FAQs about efficacy, immunity, eradication and variants.
Children’s early interactions with their environment are essential for the immune systems to learn to differentiate between safe versus dangerous disease-causing microbes.
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COVID-19 prevention measures are at odds with guidelines for healthy development of children’s immune systems. The result may be a cluster of youth with more allergies, asthma and autoimmune disease.
A man wearing a face mask wheels his wheelchair past a spray-painted wall in downtown Vancouver in March 2020.
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Cross-partisanship co-operation among political leaders doesn’t neatly translate into a similar consensus among the Canadian public, including those with disabilities or chronic health conditions.
A man receives the first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at a private medical office, in Paris.
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The coronavirus pandemic has driven a lot of scientific progress in the past year. But just as some of the social changes are likely here to stay, so are some medical innovations.
Millions of Americans may wonder if they inadvertently passed COVID-19 to someone else.
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Medical decision-making is often based on universal principles of fairness. But what happens when systemic racism means the dice are rigged to begin with?
There’s a case for targeting vaccine rollout on areas where healthy life expectancy is low, such as Blackpool.
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For those who are socially deprived, vulnerability to COVID-19 will arise at an earlier age.
Nurse Nicole Chang celebrates after receiving one of the first injections of the COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 16 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, California.
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Millions of vaccinated people have been waiting for guidelines on what they can do safely. The CDC says it’s OK to gather with other vaccinated people, but it’s still best to avoid travel.
How we name our experiences and how we make sense of our distress matters.
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Some therapists are calling for a new way to understand human distress.
Premier Scott Moe speaks after a media tour of the COVID-19 mass immunization clinic and drive-thru immunization space in Regina on Feb. 18, 2021. The province also has mobile immunization vehicles to distribute the vaccine to remote communities.
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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