Summer 2024 saw a big surge of COVID-19 cases. While COVID-19 is not the emergency it once was, it’s still a health threat, and we’d be wise to reduce our risk of getting it.
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The summer 2024 COVID-19 wave is a good reminder that it’s important to get vaccinated with the updated shot.
Patients with lower socioeconomic status often have more negative healthcare experiences.
The annual symposium brought the world’s central bankers together in Wyoming.
The H5N1 virus has infected about 900 people since 2003, and more than half of them died. But so far there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission.
Long before the pandemic, health care workers were experiencing high levels of stress, burnout and compassion fatigue, all of which contribute to reduced quality of care for patients.
Written during the pandemic, the book is a dizzying exploration of time and the very human need for meaningful connection.
The behaviour of modern humankind has played a large part in the advent of new communicable diseases.
We calculated lost productivity due to long COVID. The impacts were greatest among people aged 30 to 49.
Being able to access a COVID booster on the NHS is important for protecting those who are most vulnerable from COVID.
More preteen boys are struggling with behavioral issues, while more teen girls are experiencing anxiety and depression.
An Ohio law targeting student suspensions had a happy side effect. Requiring schools to use a positive approach to discipline reduced chronic absenteeism, study says.
Proper hygiene, vaccinations and healthy habits can all reduce the spread of diseases in school.
Europeans who experienced more relaxed Covid-19 policies tended to travel less and adopt more sustainable habits, while those suffering from strict lockdowns were keen to get away.
The COVID-19 pandemic showed that a one-size-fits-all approach is inadequate for addressing health inequities. A targeted, community-informed strategy is essential to improve public health responses.
Whooping cough is surging in Australia. In 2024, we’ve already recorded more than six times the cases we saw in all of 2023.
You wake with a sore throat and realise you are sick. Is this going to be a two-day or a two-week illness? Here’s how to tell the difference between these common infections.
If the idea of pausing felt helpful early in the pandemic and intolerable by its end, it may be helpful to reflect on notions of pausing that are more speculative or meditative.
Emerging evidence suggests LB.1 could be more transmissible than earlier Omicron subvariants, but there’s nothing to suggest it will cause more severe disease.
A new study finds the risks of developing long COVID declined over the first two years of the pandemic. But unvaccinated adults were more than twice as likely to get long COVID compared with those who were vaccinated.
Top contributors
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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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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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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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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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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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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 Medicine, University of Virginia
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
