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Some atmospheric pollutants actually help cool the planet, but the sudden shutdown of heavy industry threatened to purge them.
A composer and performer talks about the impact of the pandemic on classical music performances and his experience composing in isolation.
Banana bread had all the psychological ingredients for lockdown success.
House plants enrich our domestic lives in ways we often fail to notice. But lockdown may have changed all that.
Northern Ireland is the first UK country to impose a time-limited set of restrictions to try and get on top of the coronavirus.
The 1996 novel foresaw people’s obsession with video calls – and their eventual disenchantment.
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.
People in precarious employment are hit hardest by economic shocks.
Despite the success of relief efforts by the government and civil society, it’s clear that hunger and food insecurity remain at disturbingly high levels in households.
Coronavirus is surging in Spain, France, Germany and the UK, after many countries relaxed restrictions over the summer. They should look to success stories like Vietnam.
The data concerning both the spread of the virus and the indirect consequences of the lockdown indicates that no similar action is justified moving forward.
We are not all in this together.
Our findings suggest critical shortcomings in how new homes and neighbourhoods are designed.
The focus, for some time, has been on new daily case numbers. But what if we are looking at the wrong figure? We should focus on the average number of cases “under investigation” over the last 14 days.
We interviewed Victorians working — or not working — in the arts during the pandemic lockdown to learn about their mental health. We found they are struggling.
An overwhelming majority of respondents didn’t think that their life under lockdown and wider pandemic conditions affected their mental health.
The suggestion that ‘reckless’ young people and students are the root cause of a second Covid wave is problematic, unhelpful and not true.
We’ve become used to having autonomy over health decisions, which is what makes fresh restrictions so jarring.
We’re likely to see clusters of cases pop up and outbreaks that are hard to stamp out. But we can’t stay in lockdown forever. We have other options.
Top contributors
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Chair of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies, Adjunct Professor in the School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Former Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professional Research Fellow, Victoria 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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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand
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Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Economics, De Montfort University
