There are telling parallels between the current pandemic and those that decimated indigenous populations in the post-Columbian era in the Amazon.
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The Covid-19 pandemic is prompting Europeans to rethink their relationship to borders. Faced with the threat of the spread of the disease, should the border be a wall or a filter?
Scientists and academics on how the world might change once this is all over, and if a return to ‘normality’ is even possible.
When a government’s health messaging during a crisis is inconsistent or unrealistic, it engenders the kind of confusion, misinformation and non-cooperation seen in the US and UK.
The confinement brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has made many wonder how to keep their kids physically and mentally healthy. Here are some ideas.
An audio version of an in depth article on why mathematical modelling is crucial to understanding pandemics like the new coronavirus.
Service workers are some of the most at risk of both the coronavirus and financial woes.
Since the pandemic began, the new coronavirus has infected more than 780,000 people and killed at least 37,000. The experts at The Conversation offer its readers insights from every continent.
The pandemic makes it hard for the royal family to act as national figureheads as they have in past crises.
Emphasizing foreign origins of a disease can have racist connotations and implications for how people understand their own risk of disease.
Could the 1889-1890 pandemic have been the result of cow coronaviruses jumping to humans?
The COVID-19 pandemic must be managed in India in a tense economic context and with a largely privatised health system.
Reactions in South Africa give little reason for hope that the virus will bring people closer together or trigger more energetic action against poverty.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic is undergoing extensive genetic analysis around the world to understand its origin and evolution.
Usually when a leader handles a crisis poorly, it’s politically costly. But President Trump’s mishandling of the coronavirus crisis is not likely to hurt him, says an expert on health crises.
There is no evidence that the coronavirus has evolved into a deadlier strain. It is almost certainly less lethal than initially reported, but that might mean there are more cases than we realised.
Western literature began with a plague and ever since, writers have been using pandemics to comment on society.
It took decades for scientists to recognize HIV/AIDS as a new disease, and years longer to mobilize an effective response with broad public support. Will the US do better against novel coronavirus?
As the new coronavirus has spread around the world, sporting matches and events have been staged behind closed doors, postponed and increasingly cancelled outright.
Preparing now can help keep you and your loved ones safe.
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Principal Visiting Fellow & Former Deputy Director, International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH), United Nations University
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Lecturer, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in Virology, Queen's University Belfast
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Honorary Professor Faculty of Health and Medical Science, Univeristy of Sydney; Senior Researcher Sydney Institue for Infectious Disease, University of Sydney., University of Sydney
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Professor of Clinical Microbiology, University of Lagos
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Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Director, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs and Executive Professor, Texas A&M University
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Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
