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Basic income must be embedded within a broader strategy of economic reform, aimed at increasing the social wage and improving working conditions.
Getting first doses to countries short of supplies should be the priority, argues the World Health Organization.
How you respond to a risk depends on how you weigh the costs and benefits of an action. The problem is you’re not just a logical computer, and emotions bias your interpretation of the facts.
Physicians and other health professionals’ dedication to fighting COVID-19 reflects the commitments of Indonesian physicians and medical students in colonial times.
With a bit of preparation, role play and modelling the type of behaviour you’d like to see in your child, the process can be plain sailing.
While emergency use authorization gets vaccines out to the public more quickly, it doesn’t skip any steps that full approval requires.
In Africa, it’s more rational to prioritise vaccine access, rapid rollout and community engagement, than pushing the narrative of vaccine-induced population immunity.
SARS-Cov-2 has experienced roughly the same amount of evolutionary change during the pandemic as humans have since Homo habilis first walked the Earth about 2.5m years ago.
We all need to know about the science of COVID as we battle through pandemic, but the ultimate story will lie in how it changed our societies.
Low-income countries that sought to spend more on health care during the pandemic have been hit with ratings downgrades, while others avoided borrowing entirely.
Abuse, neglect or witnessing violence at home can lead kids to misbehave. Some schools are doing away with expulsions to focus on childhood trauma instead.
We know stressful circumstances make people more vulnerable to developing addictions. Meanwhile, people seeking help for addiction may have had their treatment disrupted because of lockdowns.
There are only limited circumstances where workplace vaccine mandates are likely to be found legally justifiable.
Many think of muscle mass loss as a problem that mostly affects older people, but even people in their early 20s can experience rapid muscle loss under certain conditions.
Recent surveys of refugees in NSW show high levels of trust in the government and police — counter to recent suggestions that people in western Sydney haven’t built up trust in government.
Many long COVID sufferers are reporting having ‘brain fog’, where they can’t concentrate as well as they used to.
The way students have been marked has changed, but that doesn’t mean they don’t deserve their grades.
Canada’s Council of Ministers of Education has yet to articulate a vision for overcoming two school years of disrupted education.
Companies should focus on fair pay and workers’ rights, our survey suggests.
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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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