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Civil liberties violations look very different in pandemics. That’s why the Canadian Civil Liberties Association is looking into who has been detained and fined, and why, during the pandemic.
The contrast between the real economy and the stock market is striking. How long will it last?
COVID-19 may not discriminate, but Canadian policy does. Income support during the pandemic must be extended to everyone, including migrant and undocumented workers.
The cities of Europe have experienced disease outbreaks for centuries, but they were able to bounce back using quarantine, economic stimulus and patience. Not all were successful.
COVID-19 outbreaks have occurred at more than 100 US meatpacking plants. Geography, workforce demographics and economic concentration make it hard for workers to fight for better conditions.
Mysteries surround the coronavirus, but our expert is here to address some of the most perplexing issues.
What’s in a word? Plenty, when it comes to the choices we use to describe people over 60. Stigma against older people that has been evident during the COVID-19 pandemic shows why it’s time to change.
American workers tend to lack many basic benefits that are incredibly common in other countries, a situation the ‘Essential Worker Bill of Rights’ aims to remedy.
El Salvador is arresting thousands of people for violating its COVID-19 quarantine, further packing a ‘hellish’ penal system once described as a ‘petri dish’ for infectious disease.
Gilead’s drug Remdesivir showed preliminary positive results in clinical trials. But what is this drug and how, exactly, does it work?
Expanding coronavirus testing is one of the most important tasks public health officials are tackling right now. But questions over accuracy of the two main types of tests have rightly caused concern.
Washington has made all states use these tests to evaluate students, teachers, principals, schools and entire school systems for nearly two decades.
Over-active immune response might be behind higher rates of life-threatening COVID-19 infections in patients with obesity.
What the UK public thinks of the way the pandemic and lockdown are being covered by the media.
Economic lockdowns and border restrictions have caused cross-border movement to plunge. Could this be the beginning of a system that’s more resistant to global ecological disaster and pandemics?
Politicians should have acted faster and more decisively, survey data from four countries show.
A survey of the general public shows they blame each other more than their leaders.
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Nev Power on the role of business in a post-coronavirus world
Michelle Grattan talks with Nev Power, the chairman of the government's National COVID-19 Coordination Committee.
The decision is further proof that the government still prioritises the economy over its own people’s well-being during this pandemic.
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Chair in 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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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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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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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
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