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Coronavirus may fundamentally reshape some areas of how we life our lives.
Steps higher education institutions can take to ensure that teaching and learning continues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health literacy is the degree to which people can get, understand and use basic health information to make decisions about health issues.
People of all ages need to work together to help keep society functional.
Studies have shown that some people touch their faces as often as 23 times an hour. Some studies have also shown that face-touching spreads germs, such as the coronavirus. Here are some ways to stop.
There are plenty of ways to keep your mind and body active and healthy during the outbreak.
Different demographics are more or less vulnerable to serious complications from the coronavirus. A virologist explains the aging-related changes in how immune systems work that are to blame.
There are ways to use tech to help kids learn, explore their interests and get creative.
Many households struggle when schools are closed.
Morrison has stressed Australia is not in shut down. Not officially. But out of a combination of alarm, caution and government measures to contain the virus’s spread, many activities have shut down and more do so every day.
For some people, home is not a safe place to be.
Why 1.5 metres? Is it our best estimate or is there solid evidence behind it?
It’s based on a combination of mathematical modelling, computer simulation and historical data from other pandemics.
Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe has laid out a road map for measures to drive a range of other interest rates down, now that its cash rate has hit effective zero.
Aboriginal people are at greater risk of severe illness from COVID-19 than non-Aboriginal people. But plans to protect remote communities and keep the virus out are progressing too slowly.
We need a frank public conversation about the full economic costs versus benefits of social distancing.
Government schools remain open but many parents are already voluntarily keeping their children home in an effort to ‘flatten the curve’.
The government has bungled its handling of coronavirus. Our leaders need to learn from our response to the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, which was completely de-politicised and way more effective.
Rather than offering early access to super, the government could allow people to borrow against it, at a zero interest rate.
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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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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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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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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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
