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The current calculation of the COVID-19 death rate in Indonesia does not reflect the reality on the ground.
Starting this week, all Australians with a Medicare card are eligible for telehealth consultations, where you talk to your GP by video or phone. But there’s still some things you’ll need to go in for.
As the cases of coronavirus spread across the world, China is keen to position itself as a charitable country through “mask diplomacy” internationally, while showing a different face at home.
We need to make sure those brought in to help cope with the pandemic have adequate training to avoid any risks in patient care.
Over the past week, we’ve seen about 350 new cases per day. If this rate continues, Australia’s current ICU system will be able to cope.
The unintended loophole allows some people to keep their income and cut the tax rate on some of it to 15%.
Australia has not contained the epidemic as well as it could have.
Would you drink a martini while others tried to stop a boulder from crushing a crowd? In the coronavirus crisis, we are all responsible for the outcome – and we need to start behaving that way.
The government has announced direct cash transfers to poorer households, but major challenges remain in providing for the 500 million employed in the informal economy.
COVID-19 presents a social as well as a medical crisis, and we will need many different kinds of expertise to survive it
Companies ought to take this time to take stock of and imagine different possible scenarios and to collaborate with their key people.
Gullibility, cynicism, pride, closed mindedness, negligence and wishful thinking. If you can use any of these to describe your reasoning, it’s likely you’re committing a sin of thought.
Businesses are struggling in these difficult times — but there is a shimmer of hope in the incredible creativity, ingenuity and resilience that we see from around the globe.
Wild animals and animal parts are bought and sold worldwide, often illegally. This multibillion-dollar industry is pushing species to extinction, fueling crime and spreading disease.
Fear of COVID-19 has sparked some to react with violent racism towards Asian Americans and Canadians. This is not the first time fear of disease has led to outbreaks of violent anti-Asian racism.
As Africa prepares to face a perfect storm, it’s time for Europe’s approach towards Africa to show its teeth.
Nigeria’s reliance on drug importation is worrisome as COVID-19 pandemic rages.
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.
Trying to maximise lives saved will inevitably be contentious and imperfect.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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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 Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
