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Rapid tests can be an incredibly useful tool for early detection of COVID-19. Unfortunately, they sometimes leave people with more questions than answers.
The CDC’s controversial recommendation changes are based on new studies showing that most omicron transmission takes place within five days of the onset of illness.
A GP and mental health clinician offers some tips to support your mental health if you get COVID and are isolating at home.
Ottawa’s travel ban against African countries made clear its underlying policy: What matters is not your test result, but where you’ve been. It’s yet another example of anti-Africa discrimation.
Events have overtaken state plans for limited numbers of international students to return. With NSW dropping quarantine for fully vaccinated arrivals, flight capacity is the final obstacle.
Our buildings and cities were not designed to handle a pandemic. But countries around the world are coming up with design ideas, some high-tech and some more basic, to reduce the infection risks.
With quarantine infection numbers and border failures likely to keep increasing, the case for stricter travel restrictions is clear.
The right to return is real but not absolute, and must be balanced with the rights of those already in New Zealand.
Despite the latest tweaks to border testing rules, the risk of imported infection remains very high. NZ’s wider response needs upgrading —including reducing the large numbers of infected returnees.
Australia has student accommodation with nearly 100,000 beds, many now empty. The large purpose-built student housing facilities are well suited for quarantining returning international students.
The first batch of returning international students are due to fly in this weekend, but Australia has a lot of work to do to maintain its pre-COVID share of the global education market.
With six COVID-19 incursions in three months, New Zealand needs to change its approach to border control to reduce the risk of quarantine staff catching the virus from travellers.
Border restrictions and quarantine have kept COVID-19 out of New Zealand, but new modelling shows contact tracing and quick isolation would control an outbreak, without the need for another lockdown.
Economics tells us that governments privatising services where quality counts is a bad idea.
Our new modelling shows the risk of an infectious person slipping through New Zealand’s border undetected is very low — likely to happen only once over the next 18 months.
The spread of the virus through households creates costs higher than for isolation in hotels when families are large and living at close quarters as in Melbourne’s public housing towers.
Two new cases of COVID-19 have been announced in New Zealand, after 23 consecutive days with no new cases. But that doesn’t mean that the country’s elimination efforts have failed.
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Professor of Physics, University of Auckland
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Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury
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Research scientist in mathematical modelling, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
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Research scientist, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
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Professor of Global Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Psychology, Bridgewater State University
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Bologna, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, The University of Western Australia
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General practitioner; Associate Professor, ANU Medical School, Australian National University
