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CERB was a lifeline but no paradise, highlighting the struggles of social assistance recipients to get by on much less.
Dogs might be helping people through the pandemic, but should we be concerned by unprepared, impulsive dog purchases?
We cannot look back in the future and
know we could have done more.
The deep-rooted issues at the heart of the current crisis.
The catastrophic surge in infections is a result of government mismanagement, cronyism and hubris.
A microscopic sponge can be used to trap oxygen from the air.
Reports have suggested some women are experiencing changes to their menstrual cycles after having a COVID vaccine.
Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Professor Paddy Nixon.
A century ago, the end of the 1918 flu pandemic was followed by a period of prosperity, cultural flourishing and social change known as the Roaring ‘20s. Will the end of COVID-19 launch a similar era?
Pressure is mounting to get COVID vaccines to where they are most needed.
COVID has now claimed over 200,000 lives on the subcontinent, and the knock-on effects are likely to be substantial.
People have a hard time assessing risk in the best of times. Adding a world-changing pandemic with evolving and sometimes conflicting information has made personal risk assessment much harder.
Risk due to increasing BMI is particularly notable in people younger than 40 years and black people.
COVID-19 messaging frames staying home as a personal responsibility, but for many it’s a luxury they can’t afford. Like the language used for drug addiction, it stigmatizes low-income people.
Airborne transmission is likely to be behind several recent leaks in hotel quarantine. But the Northern Territory has a quarantine model that works.
One year ago, the ‘Tiger King’ docuseries raised public concern about animal cruelty to new heights. But what’s happened to animals since?
Across the country, overdose deaths have spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Officials in Brazil recently asked women to avoid pregnancy, citing heightened risk to them and newborns. But births were already dropping; a new study attributes it to the trauma of Zika.
The pandemic has shifted how early stage, unreviewed scientific papers are used and viewed.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, 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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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor, Director Cabrini Monash University Department of Nursing Research, Monash University
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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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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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
