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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.
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.
Overcoming this fear requires personal empowerment and knowledge. But the trick is defining whose power and what knowledge.
Anthony Albanese on Tuesday will promise $440 million on better ventilation in schools, building upgrades, and mental health support for children as pupils get ready to return to school
Influencers fill emotional and information needs. They are perceived as role models followers identify with, or whose example they want to follow.
New recommendations on how to fix the issue of COVID misinformation don’t go far enough.
With pubs closed during lockdown, many British people opted to drink more at home.
Both companies say their drugs will work against the Omicron variant, though this is based on preliminary, lab-based research.
Working from home resulted in a rebalancing of housework and childcare responsibilities – but not all couples were affected evenly.
A public health expert explains emergency measures recently brought in to manage the impact of Omicron on our stressed health system.
Addressing racial and ethnic health gaps is becoming even more important as the US population continues its shift toward a minority-majority nation.
The pandemic lifestyle we are all adjusting to is the life families of children with cancer have already been living. But there have been positives, too.
In a time-honoured tradition of Canadian democracy, government regulations become public when they appear in the Canada Gazette. That’s why Ottawa’s proposal to bypass that step is so troublesome.
Prioritising COVID patients who are vaccinated – or charging unvaccinated patients for treatment – isn’t the right thing to do.
A GP and mental health clinician offers some tips to support your mental health if you get COVID and are isolating at home.
Having exhausted policy tools to convince vaccination holdouts to change their minds, it seems little can be gained from additional vaccine mandates than further weakening social cohesion.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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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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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor, Director Cabrini Monash University Department of Nursing Research, Monash University
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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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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde
