During the COVID-19 pandemic, a window is opening for good ideas to move from the fringes to the mainstream — and that includes a four-day work week.
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The four-day work week is an idea that should make it through the pandemic’s open policy window.
We need more positive Indigenous-settler alliances like the one with Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, which created 24 km Freedom Road to provide access to the Trans-Canada Highway. Here a teepee frame sits beside Shoal Lake.
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The COVID-19 pandemic crisis could represent an opportunity to live up to all the recent talk of reconciliation in Canada.
A security officer wearing a face mask to protect against COVID-19 stands guard as plainclothes personnel march in formation outside the entrance to the Forbidden City in Beijing on May 27, 2020.
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According to a recently conducted survey, Chinese citizens hold very high levels of satisfaction with the performance of their national government during the pandemic.
Theseus fighting against the minotaur, a hybrid of man and bull.
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Neuroscientist Karl Friston claims generative modelling techniques produce more valid predictions than conventional models, but the evidence so far is limited.
Chernobyl and COVID-19: when the threat is in the air you breathe.
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Literary responses to global lockdowns reveal haunting parallels with how people negotiated the invisible threat of radiation after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster.
The best-known example of a zoonotic pandemic is HIV/AIDS, which originated from chimpanzees.
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Zoologists have known for decades that some of the most devastating viral infections originate from animals. Their data and research can be used in efforts to prevent pandemics.
As lockdowns end, schools are reopening. But it will be far from normal.
A pandemic from a century ago doesn’t necessarily chart the course of the pandemic happening now.
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Differences in the viruses’ biology and societal contexts mean there’s no guarantee today’s pandemic will mirror the ‘waves’ of infection a century ago.
A woman eats ice cream at Gantry Plaza State Park, Long Island City on May 30, 2020 in New York City. All 50 states have begun to reopen after weeks of stay-at-home measures.
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If coronavirus is still circulating, why are we safer now that social distancing measures have been relaxed? A public health expert explains.
The death of George Floyd when a police officer kneeled on his neck sparked days of protests in cities across the U.S.
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It’s nearly impossible to avoid close contact when protesting, and easy to forget the risks. An infectious disease expert answers key questions about how to avoid spreading the coronavirus to family.
A health worker carries out an olfactory test to monitor smell loss to a resident 65 km from Buenos Aires city, on May 24, 2020, amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
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Many respiratory viruses cause us to temporarily lose our sense of smell. But SARS-CoV-2 isn’t like those other viruses. Researchers are now exploring how it differs and whether patients recover.
It causes fever, a dry cough, shortness of breath. Outbreaks are frequently deadly. It’s not COVID-19, and it could be waiting in your workplace after lockdown.
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There’s now a 95% chance COVID-19 has been eliminated in NZ, according to our modelling. But as NZ prepares to remove limits on large gatherings, it increases the risk of a very large new outbreak.
People in Brazil queuing at a shopping centre as lockdown restrictions are lifted.
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Australia has suffered far less death and disease from COVID-19 than other similar countries. But given the hesitant start and the Ruby Princess debacle, we could have done even better.
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