Eye contact is essential for building and developing trust. But after more than a year of working and socializing online, our ability to make and maintain eye contact has been diminished.
In this time of crisis, we must remember that we need others in our lives because social connection is fundamental.
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Large Canadian cities, usually major tourist destinations, have have experienced drastic declines in tourists and tourism spending while some regional hotspots have been overwhelmed with visitors.
South Africa has led efforts to share intellectual property relating to COVID-19 treatments, vaccines and tests.
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The change in the US position signals how clearly the success of every country in fighting the pandemic depends on vaccinating the whole world.
Paramedics walk gurneys back to a multi-patient transport bus at Kingston General Hospital on April 30 after dropping off COVID-19 patients from the Toronto area.
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The need to transfer 2,500 COVID-19 patients around Ontario, and bring in extra doctors from other provinces, exposes two fallacies about Canada’s health-care system.
The US has agreed to ‘free the vaccine’, but will it work?
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It’s not clear whether the TRIPS agreement is what’s getting in the way of vaccine supply, and waiving intellectual property rights may stifle future innovation.
Indian healthcare workers take a rest outside the hospital mortuary in New Delhi, India, 29 April 2021.
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Gemma Ware, The Conversation and Daniel Merino, The Conversation
Plus, a psychologist on how we look back at our big decisions in life. Listen to episode 14 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Family members of COVID-19 infected patients stand in a queue with empty oxygen cylinders outside the oxygen filling centre in New Delhi, India.
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If you live in an area where virus fragments have been found in wastewater samples, the most important thing to do is follow your state health department’s advice.
Workers manufacture partitions made from cardboard and chipboard material in Mississauga, Ont., in January 2021.
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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
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