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New Zealanders will have be prepared to change holiday plans if there is an new community outbreak.
Three infection prevention and control experts break down Victoria’s new hotel quarantine system.
Clear messaging about who needs to get tested is better than stigmatising people who are understandably worried about their health.
Saving the economy requires minimizing, if not eliminating, community COVID-19 transmission.
Over the approaching holidays, people around the world will want to travel to see friends and family. Getting tested for the coronavirus can make this safer, but testing alone is not a perfect answer.
A senior World Health Organisation envoy caused consternation by proclaiming lockdowns are not a good long-term strategy against COVID-19. But it’s true, and other subtler tactics are better in the long run.
Child health psychologists offer research-based strategies to prepare kids for pain-free and distress-free COVID-19 testing.
A man in the Northern Territory recently received a “weak positive” test result for COVID-19. Understanding how coronavirus tests work shows us why this can happen from time to time.
The latest COVID-19 modelling shows New Zealand will have a 50-50 chance of eliminating the virus again by the end of the month, provided the Auckland cluster stays contained.
The prime minister big new plan is a flawed policy in search of the science to back it up.
Social media influencers could have an impact in promoting a test and trace service and changing young people’s attitudes towards COVID-19.
Understanding terms like sensitivity and specificity can help us make sense of COVID-19 testing, the accuracy of tests and what the results mean.
New Zealand’s most pressing challenge is to bring the current COVID-19 outbreak under control, but it also time to make more strategic improvements to prevent future border control failures.
We believe New Zealand can eliminate COVID-19 again. But it could do more to speed up that process with mandatory masks and tighter controls on high-risk venues, including bars, gyms and churches.
New Zealand has confirmed a new community outbreak of COVID-19 and the country returns to pandemic restrictions, with Auckland under alert level 3 conditions.
New Zealand is one of a small number of countries that have managed to eliminate community transmission of COVID-19. It’s now reached a 100-day milestone with no new cases in the community.
COVID-19 tests rely on a process developed at a biotech company co-founded by a Canadian. Canada’s current testing expertise needs to be channelled to prepare for the next wave, and the next pandemic.
Ideally everyone could get tested frequently for the coronavirus. No state is close to achieving this, but some are doing better than others. What are the challenges in meeting demand for testing?
While Canada has done well compared to countries like the U.S. and the U.K. in containing COVID-19, rates of infection and deaths are higher than in many similar western democracies. Why?
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Associate professor, University of Canterbury
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Professor of Physics, University of Auckland
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Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury
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Research associate professor, University of Otago
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor and Psychologist in Pediatric Pain, University of Calgary
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Research assistant, University of Auckland
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Research scientist in mathematical modelling, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
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Research scientist, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
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Professor, Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Psychology, University of Guelph
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance; Scientific Co-Director, Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society, Simon Fraser University
