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None of our authors can see the future, but many do have expertise that offers insights about what’s reasonable to expect.
A scholar conducted over 70 hours of interviews with people involved in the medical and funerary professions to understand the impact of changes in death rituals during the pandemic.
Control measures may be easing, but don’t expect the world to return to how it was in January 2020.
Vaccines mandates for healthcare workers may have made sense earlier in the pandemic. But not now.
As vaccination coverage for children rises and adults are increasingly vaccinated and boosted, it’s time to pay more attention to protecting children from the indirect harms of the pandemic.
The science of stress explains why parenting during the pandemic feels so hard. Here are strategies from psychologists for taking back control when you dread yet another challenging day ahead.
The CDC’s updated mask guidelines say that cloth masks offer the least protection from COVID-19. Differences in the materials masks are made from and the ways they fit are the reason.
COVID is exacerbating, but isn’t the root cause of, the NHS’s current crisis.
In an effort to get as many people vaccinated as possible, some countries have used a stick. Maybe a carrot would be better.
Australia’s Consumer Price Index rose 1.3% in the three months to December, bringing inflation for the 2021 year to 3.5%.
Variant-specific vaccines would undoubtedly increase immunity. But waves of new variants would engulf the population faster than these vaccines could ever be deployed.
There is an urgent need to understand international students’ unique vulnerabilities and to develop effective policy responses.
Recent research found around a quarter of people with classic COVID symptoms didn’t get tested.
Because of the growing fame of African football stars, the tournament is now watched in more than 160 countries worldwide.
Overcoming this fear requires personal empowerment and knowledge. But the trick is defining whose power and what knowledge.
The willingness of the executive to pre-empt criticism by amending COVID regulations has arguably strengthened its position.
Despite improvements, the aged care sector is currently under extreme pressure. The serious effects of isolation and neglect are potentially as severe now and more widespread than in 2020.
The supply crisis in the meat processing industry was entirely predictable. Employers and the government should have seen it coming.
Influencers fill emotional and information needs. They are perceived as role models followers identify with, or whose example they want to follow.
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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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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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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, School of Population Health, 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
