The mental health effects of the pandemic will likely outlive COVID-19. The goal should be to target mental health symptoms early in order to decrease major long-term effects.
People with schizophrenia are almost three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than those without the serious mental illness, making it second only to age as a risk factor for mortality.
Armistice Day celebrations on Nov. 11, 1918, worried public health experts as people crowded together in cities across the U.S.
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Americans were tired of social distancing and mask-wearing. At the first hint the virus was receding, people pushed to get life back to normal. Unfortunately another surge of the disease followed.
The AstraZeneca vaccine is already in use in many places.
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AstraZeneca just announced results from its US-based trial. It found the vaccine to be 79% effective and safe for use, despite recent concerns around reports of blood clots.
In many cases, getting on a plane, attending a show or going to a store requires an app that proves you’ve been vaccinated.
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How do you prove that people have been vaccinated without putting their privacy at risk? The technology and best practices to make it happen exist. It’s far from clear, however, if they’re being used.
Indian women during a protest against the central government’s recent agricultural reforms, in Gurgaon, February 6, 2021.
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While the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated gender inequalities, it has also incited women-led initiatives and mobilisations.
Dostoyevsky’s story ‘The Double’ explores the uncanny theme of a replica of oneself, but today’s literary foes are often amorphous ones like environmental degradation.
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Beyond the ‘literature of madness,’ the narratives about mental and physical health published today explore the interdependence of bodies and their environments.
The coronavirus has imposed difficulties on vulnerable workers.
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From today, around 1,000 clinics around the country can begin vaccinating eligible Australians.
Family members’ involvement in encouraging children’s reading and writing in everyday play and family life can make a difference to children’s literacy achievement.
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Research has shown that healthy, consensual and enjoyable sex is a great way to improve coping abilities. But during the pandemic, when resilience is valuable, Canadians are having less sex, not more.
Solar energy is an invaluable resource in rural areas like this facility in Gambia.
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Cyrus Sinai, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Rob Fetter, Duke University
Solar-powered cold chain technologies can be game-changers in the fight against COVID-19 in resource-limited settings in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.
A transcript of episode 7 of The Conversation Weekly pocast, including an extra from Don’t Call Me Resilient on the treatment of migrant workers in Canada.
Make that second appointment and get your final dose for full protection.
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An immunologist explains that you get some protection from the first dose of the mRNA vaccines but you need two to build up strong immunity, particularly to newer coronavirus variants.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne