In any national health disaster calling individuals to voluntarily restrict their movements and interactions, the conflict between public interest and personal autonomy is bound to become messy.
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Public health – Analysis and Comment
Crowdsourcing is a promising approach to biomedical research and development (R&D) and could produce solutions to pandemics like this one.
Indigenous people suffered greatly during the last global pandemic – the Spanish flu in 1918-19. They are vulnerable again because we still haven’t addressed inequalities in our public health system.
Densely populated urban areas are great drivers of economic development and innovation, but that also makes them a fertile ground for the spread of pandemics.
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How are tests developed for a specific virus and how does a country get the test kits it needs?
The clock is ticking: in the absence of government support, not being able to work means waste reclaimers don’t have money to buy food.
COVID-19 presents a social as well as a medical crisis, and we will need many different kinds of expertise to survive it
In reacting to the pandemic, architecture can reclaim its impact by conceding its loss of connection with public health, looking beyond Western thinking for its references.
How do you encourage people to date when social distancing? Apps are trying to figure it out.
Models can predict the risk and spread of diseases and establish the time and place to implement optimal prevention and control mechanisms.
Effective public health response to a pandemic, depends on the availability of a stable power supply system.
Facebook, Google and Twitter are stepping up to block misinformation and promote accurate information about the coronavirus. Their track records on self-policing are poor. The results so far are mixed.
Online news sources continue to grow as a primary source of information and misinformation. But private platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are harder to monitor.
The consequences will be far more severe and long lasting in poorer countries.
Much of the world is moving online in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Society’s newly increased dependence on the internet is bringing the need for good cyber policy into sharp relief.
In Wuhan more than 1800 teams of epidemiologists, with a minimum of five people per team, traced tens of thousands of contacts a day.
Social distancing is vital to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. But it doesn’t have to be purely physical - we can separate ourselves in time too, by staggering our daily routines.
The molecular based tests used to detect SARS-CoV-2 are very specific but can take two to three days to process and produce a result.
The recent seizures of counterfeit testing kits by U.S. Customs and Border Protection show that the counterfeiters have begun to take advantage of the coronavirus crisis.
The federal government has declared a state of emergency over COVID-19. Two public health scholars explain what that means.
Lessons learned from Canada’s favourite game can offer some wisdom during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Initiatives to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 are under way. But how far away are they?
Already, we have seen a range of responses globally - from countries that apparently reacted too late, to those who acted relatively early.
Very little is known about the relationship between COVID-19 and HIV and TB. What is known is that people’s lungs are affected by all three.
The immediate need to “track and trace” infections for public health purposes poses an unprecedented challenge to privacy.