More than 200 scientists wrote to the World Health Organization, warning about aerosol transmission of the coronavirus.
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Some experts were concerned about the creation of unrealistic expectations, links with gender-based violence, and the potential for addiction. Others said education might help to offset these harms.
The purveyors of these myths, including politicians who have been soft peddling the impact of the coronavirus, aren't doing the country any favors.
Putting a dollar value on human lives to compare the costs and benefits of stay-at-home orders can have unintended consequences. These researchers found a different way.
Social distancing is leaving older Americans more isolated and opening them up to serious health risks.
With most therapy sessions now online, a psychologist explores whether more self-disclosure by therapists – sharing more about their own lives – might help their patients.
For people who worked manual jobs (such as electricians or carers), this number was even lower.
Texas hospitals are filling up with new COVID-19 cases, and many of the people falling ill are young.
Whether it's cars passing nearby, a neighbour's blaring music or the constant drone of a lawnmower, the trouble with sound is that – unlike light – it can be hard to block out completely.
This decades-long study found that living in poorer communities changes how genes are regulated.
Yellow fever, malaria and Ebola all spilled over from animals to humans at the edges of tropical forests. The new coronavirus is the latest zoonosis.
In South Asia, days with both extreme heat and extreme pollution are expected to increase 175% by 2050. Separately, the health effects are bad; together they will likely be worse.
Is it possible that people who recover from COVID-19 will be plagued with long term side effects from the infection? An infectious disease physician reviews the evidence so far.
Staff shortages and lack of training are placing healthcare workers in danger.
Many white health students - our future doctors, nurses and health workers - find learning about the ongoing health impacts of colonisation on Indigenous Australians confronting. But it's vital.
Being able to identify communities that are susceptible to the pandemic ahead of time would allow officials to target public health interventions to slow the spread of the infection and avoid deaths.
People are turning to quarantine bubbles as a way to see friends and family while limiting the risk from the coronavirus. Research shows that this can work, but it's not easy to be in a quaranteam.
PODCAST: The third part of a series from The Anthill Podcast on how the world recovered from major crises throughout history focuses on the recovery after 1918.
SARS-CoV-2 can be spread through the air. But just how much of a factor that is has been hard to determine. Recent evidence suggests it is common, posing problems as public places begin to reopen.
Without a vaccine, the cost of reaching herd immunity during a pandemic is counted in lives lost, and it won't quickly stop the virus's spread.
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Social and Behavioural Health Science, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Former Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, King's College London
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Associate Professor in Health Policy, Menzies Centre for Health Policy & Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Fellow, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
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Stephen Duckett is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
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Professor, University of Melbourne
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IMB Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, Addiction and Mental Health, University of York
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Lecturer, Population and Global Health, University of Western Australia
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Professor of Economics, University of Essex
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Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
