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Epidemiological data suggests that 80% of COVID-19 cases can be traced to just 20% of those infected with SARS-CoV-2.
S. pneumoniae, the bacteria responsible for pneumonia, causes about one million deaths each year. Now we know how it uses the sugar raffinose to spread through the body to cause disease.
Bats have been the reservoir for recent disease outbreaks, including SARS and the current COVID-19 pandemic. But it’s human activity that allows the virus to cross over.
Your body can be infected and fight off SARS-CoV-2 without your ever noticing.
Every time the virus copies itself it makes mistakes, creating a trail that researchers can use to build a family tree with information about where it’s traveled, and when.
A recent study suggested the coronavirus could spread up to four metres. But the evidence isn’t strong enough to suggest we should change social distancing advice from 1.5 metres.
The questions researchers around the world are working on day and night.
Universities and colleges around the world are closing. People are fleeing from cities. Some people are being forced to move but others must weigh the risks and ethical concerns of travel.
Currently, the number of confirmed global COVID-19 cases is doubling about every six days. At this rate, Australia’s health sector will be unable to cope.
Best-case estimates suggest 40 million American adults may come down with COVID-19. But an epidemiologist explains why now is not the time to just give up.
Top contributors
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Archaeology, Durham University
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Professor of Data Science, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Immunisation and Emergencies (IDIE) at Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University
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Lecturer in Simulation and Modelling, Brunel University London
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Professor of Entomology and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Penn State
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Molecular microbiologist, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Texas A&M University
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Director, Public Health Program and Associate Professor of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide
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PhD Candidate, University of Adelaide
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Lecturer; Biology and Health, University of Waterloo
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Research Fellow in Agent-based Modelling, Brunel University London
