Without clear guidelines from states or the feds on how to stay safe after reopening, it’s hard to know what to do. A doctor suggests things to consider in a park, at the beach and the pool.
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Recipe sharing is all the rage in the pandemic as in other times of turmoil. English cookbooks of the 16th and 17th centuries promised recipes for comfort with a dash of glamour.
We all need reassurance and humour in the coronavirus pandemic. A best-of list of both biting satire and silly parody to beat the quarantine blahs.
Test, trace, maintain social distance, and keep travel bans and quarantines in place. These measures will help Australia keep the coronavirus in check as we gradually emerge from lockdown hibernation.
Yeast is a single-celled organism that’s everywhere around us. Understanding how yeast works can help you make better bread and appreciate this old friend of humanity.
Physical activity is important for all kinds of health reasons, even in quarantine.
When the things we consider to be normal break down, outcomes that once seemed unlikely or extraordinary become possible.
TyphoidMary is shorthand today for those who defy social distancing orders. The real Typhoid Mary is perhaps the most prominent example in the US of the unknowing disease carrier.
Robots are helping health care workers and public safety officials more safely and quickly treat coronavirus patients and contain the pandemic. They have something in common: They’re tried and tested.
A couple and family therapist offers five tips for getting along while enduring physical distancing measures to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
Zoom’s privacy and security shortcomings are just the latest videoconferencing vulnerabilities. Knowing each platform’s risks can help people avoid many of the downsides of virtual gatherings.
Cellphone data can show who coronavirus patients interacted with, which can help isolate infected people before they feel ill. But how digital contact tracing is implemented matters.
Though quarantine isn’t an ideal situation, it might offer us a chance to catch up on some much needed sleep.
The confinement brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has made many wonder how to keep their kids physically and mentally healthy. Here are some ideas.
In the past, quarantines were often seen as an excuse for state intervention, and condemned as instruments of despotism.
Instead of seeking to protect our health and stop the coronavirus epidemic by instituting totalitarian surveillance regimes, we should rather focus on empowering citizens.
With offices shut down, people staying at home and hospitals bracing for an influx of patients, many people are unsure of what’s safe and what’s not.
Victoria and NSW have demonstrated that a severe and relatively short shutdown is still possible.
Government schools remain open but many parents are already voluntarily keeping their children home in an effort to ‘flatten the curve’.
An expert explains how your individual rights could be affected during the coronavirus crisis.
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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