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The Indonesian government should consider opening its plan to the world by turning Bali into a “Zoom island”.
The circulation of misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine poses the danger of hampering the government’s efforts to control the pandemic.
India’s poor and vulnerable should be vaccinated first, but their needs have been ignored.
The evidence suggests antigen tests are most accurate when the viral load is highest and when a person is likely to be most infectious.
The media empire now seems to be wrestling with internal division over masks, vaccines and lockdowns – while being careful not to damage the Coalition ahead of the next election.
Policing during the pandemic has tended to focus on punitive measures against individuals. A community-focused, public health approach would move away from coercive policing.
If we open up the international borders before enough of the population is vaccinated, hospitals could become overwhelmed and deaths would be unacceptably high.
COVID is running rampant in Myanmar, where the military junta has been accused of arresting doctors and weaponising the pandemic. The result could be catastrophic for the entire region.
Greater Sydney sold $281 billion of goods and services to the rest of Australia in 2019/20. Cutting off Sydney could affect everything from petrol and parcels to soft drinks and sliced ham.
As high-income countries move into post-vaccination life with vaccination rates of over 80 doses per 100 people, only 1.1 per cent of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose.
Cases of this variant – which has some potential to escape the effects of vaccines – have risen recently in France and Spain.
Combating vaccine misinformation on social media requires blocking sources of misinformation – and giving researchers access to data about how misinformation spreads.
Anthony Albanese is lightening his load in preparation for the next election, to narrow the debate to the government’s handling of the pandemic.
Leaders in Africa need to develop practical ways to achieve their aspirations.
The international evidence so far shows COVID vaccines are safe for pregnant women and effective at preventing severe disease.
By arresting opponents of proposed land rights legislation, Frank Bainimarama again squashes democratic debate at a time when Fiji urgently needs it.
COVID will be with the world for the foreseeable future. The challenge is to learn to live with the virus effectively, protecting public health while reconnecting with each other.
What do you need to weigh up when working out whether to get the AstraZeneca vaccine? Here’s what the evidence says.
Are vaxxies just the latest trend in virtue signalling? And even if they are, does that mean they’re not worth it?
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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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
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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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
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
