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How to prevent future disasters by learning from the past. Listen to episode 21 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
A COVID-19 field hospital in Santo Andre, Brazil. The pandemic has killed over 503,000 people in Brazil; just 11% of the population is fully vaccinated.
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The high costs of the world’s colossally unequal COVID-19 immunization rates.
Managing academic expectations, culture shock, language barriers and financial constraints amid concerns about viral safety are some of the intersecting stressors faced by international students.
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International students are a vulnerable population who have faced many stressors in the COVID-19 pandemic. Emotional intelligence can help navigate these.
In April 2020 all six Tŝilhqot’in communities decided to erect checkpoints to monitor and regulate travel to and from their reserves.
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The minutiae of bureaucratic policy and procedure perpetuates colonialism and undermined a fully Tŝilhqot’in-led pandemic response.
Residents in a Cape Town suburb queue to vote during previous municipal elections in South Africa.
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Concerns about socioeconomic well-being were the main reason why people voted for a certain political party.
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Values in adulthood rarely change. But major events, like wars — and pandemics — can shift our priorities.
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Natural disaster is a misnomer. Disasters occur due to societal failures, not nature.
The migrant worker crisis was a disaster waiting to happen.
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India had the legal ability to classify migrant workers as internally displaced and offer them protection, but instead they were marooned and left to the mercy of fate.
The emergence of variants of concern in late 2020 marked a shift in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Delta variant: What it is, where it came from, why it’s different and whether COVID-19 vaccines can prevent it.
Summer schools need to address the emotional and academic needs of children.
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This year summer schools will have to figure out how to tend to the emotional and academic needs of students coming out of remote learning.
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Contracts for exploring the deep sea are due to expire before a safe mining code can be agreed.
The level of immunity needed — either through vaccination or infection — for practical herd immunity is uncertain, but may be quite high.
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It is unlikely that we will reach full herd immunity for COVID-19. However, we are likely to reach a practical kind of herd immunity through vaccination.
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Corporations need to weigh up significant risks against wider benefits.
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COVID has exposed how vulnerable Australia’s food charities are in times of crisis. But we can prepare for the next disaster.
A police officer stops traffic as people opposed to public health measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 march on Granville Street after the B.C. Grand Freedom Rally, in Vancouver, in Feb. 2021.
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Denial and deception can be harmful weapons with lethal consequences, neither logic or law is on the side of ‘freedom’ rallies.
Protesters took to the streets in Poland to protest the country’s crackdown on abortion access.
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Some countries made abortion access easier during the pandemic. Others used it as an excuse for a crackdown.
Would anyone want to spend more screen time talking about pandemics? Yes, learned an anthropologist, biologist and historian who developed a course on the topic.
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The course offers a model for teaching about complex problems, and underlines the critical role of university learning, research and outreach in understanding and addressing them.
The prevention of future pandemics requires examining viral family trees.
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Bat hosts, lab leaks – tracing SARS-CoV-2 to its origins involves more than just tracking down patient zero.
Pharmacist Barbara Violo arranges all the empty vials of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine that she has provided to customers at an independent pharmacy in Toronto.
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Hundreds of thousands of Canadians got a shot of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine for their first dose. They now have a choice for their second dose: AstraZeneca again, or Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccine?
International tourism dropped considerably to Thailand Buddhist temples as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Thailand’s Buddhist temples, important centers of culture and commerce, rely on donations from international visitors. Because of a steep drop in tourism, these temples have been hit hard.