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Vaccine hesitancy poses significant risks for those refusing to be vaccinated. The more people get vaccinated, the better the chances of living with the virus.
The narrative of the Great Resignation is that workers hate their jobs and are desperate to quit. The data tells a somewhat different story.
A third vaccine dose raises protection against omicron to 75%, early data suggests.
Children who missed part of their reception year were three months behind in reading.
One of the ways the Omicron variant is different from other variants is the sheer number of mutations in the spike protein. Does this make it a super-variant?
Government support programs like CERB and EI provide a safety net. During COVID-19, sex workers accessed various financial support — future policy needs to address the rights and security of sex workers.
Fear of prosecution and a history of distrust toward the government have contributed to some fundamentalist groups’ views of medicine.
The US has a growing demand for nurses. Yet nursing schools are turning away many qualified candidates.
Some studies, but not all, suggest a deterioration in youth mental health.
The pandemic has increased vulnerability and poverty for female-headed households more than for male-headed households.
Rapid testing for COVID-19 is an extra safety measure that can help prevent spread of infection, and help you have a more normal holiday, especially if you are visiting vulnerable people.
Educating children in the 21st century is about teaching them to appreciate the human condition in all its diversity. Holiday reading can contribute to this.
It was the biases of its ‘first world’ which prevented South Africa from mobilising the energies and talents of most of its people against COVID-19.
Early data show that Omicron is dominating new COVID-19 cases in Gauteng province.
Compliance with COVID rules has been achieved in-spite of, not because of, the example set by some of those in power.
At this stage, we cannot say anything about the severity of cases with Omicron - either in primary or reinfections.
Antibodies in people’s blood seem much less able to neutralise the new variant – but these new findings should be treated with caution.
Knowing when and how often to use rapid tests is key to getting an accurate picture of your COVID-19 status.
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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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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, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
