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Cardiologists say student athletes who test positive for COVID-19 should see their doctors to determine if heart tests are necessary, even if they don’t have symptoms.
The COVID-19 crisis is transforming work and how it is done, not just in universities. If managers think that they unilaterally know how to manage remote work, disorder could become chaos.
The government has secured deals for two further COVID-19 vaccines, taking its portfolio of agreements to four.
Soon after Ireland announced the ‘strictest lockdown in Europe’, many other countries followed suit. Here’s how it’s going so far.
Ideally, I’d wait until there’s zero community transmission before reopening borders. But I think the risk of a substantial outbreak is low.
So-called mRNA vaccines are among the frontrunners in the global race to design a COVID vaccine. But as a new technology, most nations, including Australia, lack the capacity to produce them at scale.
Everyone would benefit from fewer slides, presented more slowly and with more detailed explanation of how the data has been processed.
British meat processing plants are experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks, but there’s a shortage of statistics in the public domain.
It is important to understand that not everyone should be tested and that the timing and correct use of the different types tests is important in order to gain the best results.
Health policy and politics scholars expect political fallout from the federal response to the pandemic will play out for years, with trust in government taking a big hit.
As we are now approaching a long, dark, socially-isolated winter in the UK, adequate vitamin D supplementation has never been more important.
The current one-off payment of £500 for people on low incomes is not sufficient to get people to follow the rules.
The Great Barrington Declaration’s advocacy for naturally acquired herd immunity to COVID-19 amounts to a global chickenpox party: naive and dangerous.
Urgent measures are necessary from various levels of government to develop support programs for immigrant women during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It takes around 61 hours to identify the pathogen causing a patient’s pneumonia. A new test reduces that to four hours.
There have been many reports of co-infection with influenza and COVID-19, but we still don’t have the full picture.
Locking down again? You need a wellbeing plan.
CBD retailers were already struggling before the pandemic. The contrast in fortunes with suburban retail activity is stark, and there are good reasons to think the shift could be permanent.
A reliance on local customary knowledge and practices helped people make a living and strengthened relationships with family and friends.
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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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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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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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