People who oppose vaccination won’t be swayed by statistics. To convince them, it is necessary to share real-life experiences and stories with which they will identify.
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Home may have become associated with safety and control during lockdown, so resuming life in public can seem daunting.
The reason for these results has yet to be confirmed – but maths may explain the phenomenon.
The threat of disease changes how people behave to minimise the risk of infection – and can even influence their political preferences.
But the immune cells that vaccination spurs do last a long time.
Trust is needed to curb vaccine hesitancy. Governments need to explain vaccines and other public health measures, while also speaking to the broader purpose of caring for the community we belong to.
At the pool, the most likely place to catch COVID-19 is in the change rooms.
Afrofuturist’s work is rooted in the desire to transform the present for Black people. To do so, they imagine a reality in which Black people are the agents of their own story, countering histories that discount and dismiss them.
Merck announced preliminary data suggesting the drug reduced the risk of hospitalisation and death by 50%.
When it came to managing the spread of COVID-19, Canada fared better than the United States and the United Kingdom, but worse than other welfare states like New Zealand and Japan.
Scott Morrison has slammed the Queensland government, as the states press for extra funding to support their hospitals as the nation reopens
Around half of recent excess deaths in England have been directly from COVID.
Word from The Hill: Signs are Scott Morrison wants to avoid Glasgow
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with politics + society editor, Amanda Dunn
The risk of COVID-19 exposure from high-touch surfaces within grocery stores is low if physical distancing guidelines and recommended cleaning protocols are followed.
There are very few situations where someone can’t have a COVID vaccine for medical reasons.
How the ‘smoker’s paradox’ went up in a puff of smoke.
Public-health messaging and strained health-care resources during COVID-19 have meant fewer in-person exams. For some children with brain cancer, this can have devastating consequences.
Schools and parents have been targeted with fake vaccine consent forms peddling misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
The Australian people will be best served by separating science from politics.
Climate or COVID? Both will influence the election outcome as prime minister Scott Morrison has to decide whether he will attend the Glasgow climate conference if Australia’s COVID situation worsens
Top contributors
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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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Associate Professor, Director Cabrini Monash University Department of Nursing Research, Monash University
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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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 Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
