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In India handwashing practices have come under scrutiny as millions of Indian poorest return home from major cities. Many do not have access to basic amenities.
Why we should wash our hands of this unhealthy phrase.
In times of crisis, the role of art becomes more central to our lives, like it or not.
The science of making reagents, the chemicals needed for the COVID-19 finger-prick test.
Drug companies normally use patents to protect new treatments.
When colonisers invaded the Americas, they brought with them waves of new diseases. This legacy continues to impact Indigenous communities.
We asked three legal experts - in Victoria, NSW and Queensland - to help shed some light on what the coronavirus rules might mean for residents of those states.
The current calculation of the COVID-19 death rate in Indonesia does not reflect the reality on the ground.
Starting this week, all Australians with a Medicare card are eligible for telehealth consultations, where you talk to your GP by video or phone. But there’s still some things you’ll need to go in for.
As the cases of coronavirus spread across the world, China is keen to position itself as a charitable country through “mask diplomacy” internationally, while showing a different face at home.
We need to make sure those brought in to help cope with the pandemic have adequate training to avoid any risks in patient care.
Over the past week, we’ve seen about 350 new cases per day. If this rate continues, Australia’s current ICU system will be able to cope.
The unintended loophole allows some people to keep their income and cut the tax rate on some of it to 15%.
Australia has not contained the epidemic as well as it could have.
Would you drink a martini while others tried to stop a boulder from crushing a crowd? In the coronavirus crisis, we are all responsible for the outcome – and we need to start behaving that way.
The government has announced direct cash transfers to poorer households, but major challenges remain in providing for the 500 million employed in the informal economy.
COVID-19 presents a social as well as a medical crisis, and we will need many different kinds of expertise to survive it
Companies ought to take this time to take stock of and imagine different possible scenarios and to collaborate with their key people.
Gullibility, cynicism, pride, closed mindedness, negligence and wishful thinking. If you can use any of these to describe your reasoning, it’s likely you’re committing a sin of thought.
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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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