Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria (coloured yellow) enmeshed within a human white blood cell (coloured red). MRSA is a major cause of hospital-associated infections.
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Antimicrobial resistance is a public health and economic disaster waiting to happen. If we do not address this threat, by 2050 more people will die from drug-resistant infections than from cancer.
The first two of 24 new solar and wind farms under construction were completed in February but there’s still a long way to go to boost electricity supply.
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When South Africa finally emerges from COVID-19 inadequate electricity supply will be once again rear its head.
The coronavirus pandemic has led to many people using social media in more positive ways, including video conferencing platforms like Zoom.
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Social media has become a virtual lifeline during the COVID-19 crisis. How people in isolation are using Zoom and other platforms goes against the notion that social media makes us more anti-social.
A tourist from Québec poses with a Canadian flag in Peggy’s Cove, N.S. on Canada Day, 2016. Allowing domestic tourism to resume may be one step to carefully reopening the Canadian economy during the pandemic.
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The response to COVID-19 should become a learning opportunity on how to develop more illness-proof economies.
Indonesia needs to carry out rigorous contact tracing to make sure those who risk spreading the disease can be tested and isolated.
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Testriono, Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta and Iqra Anugrah, Institute for Economic and Social Research, Education, and Information (LP3ES)
Social science researchers can help make sure contact tracing is carried out in all provinces in Indonesia.
The pandemic is driving up a litany of social ills.
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America’s news reports and social media chatter open a window into the nation’s psyche. An AI-based text analysis of these words shows that the coronavirus is driving up familiar social ills.
Don’t forget to wash your hands.
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Policymakers need to figure out ways to sustain the behaviors that are helping flatten the curve as cities begin to end their lockdowns.
Workers wearing protective gear remove bodies of people who have died from COVID-19 from a New Jersey nursing home morgue.
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It is not surprising that being unhealthy makes you more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. But what may worry you is just how many Americans are in this high-risk group.
The parking lot of Citifield, the home of the New York Mets, sits empty.
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You might feel nervous asking someone you care about if they’re suicidal on the phone or online. But a person who is struggling may actually find it easier to communicate this way than face-to-face.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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