As ready as you are to be done with COVID-19, it's not going anywhere soon. A historian of disease describes how once a pathogen emerges, it's usually here to stay.
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Even if some places reach herd immunity, the virus is unlikely to disappear.
The focus, for some time, has been on new daily case numbers. But what if we are looking at the wrong figure? We should focus on the average number of cases "under investigation" over the last 14 days.
We're likely to see clusters of cases pop up and outbreaks that are hard to stamp out. But we can't stay in lockdown forever. We have other options.
Areas with the highest levels of mortality in the first wave do not show a significant resurgence of cases this time around. But why?
An unprecedented level of research has gone into understanding the novel coronavirus. Here's what we still don't know.
Will the COVID-19 pandemic change the global balance of power? It wouldn't be the first time.
A preliminary study published online this week estimates Australia had 60,000 undiagnosed COVID-19 infections by July. But there are a range of limitations to the study.
The pandemic has exposed many of us to new statistical concepts, on the news, in everyday conversations and on social media. But how many are you getting wrong?
Understanding terms like sensitivity and specificity can help us make sense of COVID-19 testing, the accuracy of tests and what the results mean.
Overall, Victoria’s roadmap is good. It identifies the right goal, provides explicit criteria for when restrictions might be lifted, and involves mostly appropriate restrictions.
Genetic analysis of virus samples from New Zealand's latest COVID-19 cases is now much swifter. It's providing key information, but hasn't yet answered the question of where this second wave started.
A night manager at one of Melbourne's quarantine hotels has been designated as "patient zero" in Victoria's second wave of COVID-19. Here's what that actually means.
As Russia fast tracks a coronavirus vaccine, scientists worry about skipped safety checks – and the potential fallout for trust in vaccines if something ends up going wrong.
A recent report by the CDC estimated that the true number of COVID-19 cases in the US could be six to 24 times more than the number of confirmed cases. A public health scholar explains the implications.
A team of researchers from Indiana University performed random testing for SARS-CoV-2 across the state. The results offer some of the most accurate data to date about important aspects of the virus.
The R number fluctuates more as case numbers fall.
To control the COVID-19 pandemic through random testing would require about 6.5 million test a day. Using group testing and machine learning could get that number down to fewer than 40,000 day.
There's no scientific definition for a wave of disease – and no evidence that the original onslaught of coronavirus in the US has receded much at all.
Some of the priorities were drawn from the World Health Organisation's Roadmap; others were expressed by researchers in and from Africa as being important to the continent's many contexts.
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Professor, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
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Associate Professor, La Trobe University
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Professor and Chair of Epidemiology, University of Michigan
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Research Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan
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Professor and Director of Doherty Epidemiology, University of Melbourne
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Professor in Evolutionary Biology (jointly appointed with South Australian Museum), Flinders University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Professor in Mathematical Biology, University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Mathematical Biology and Physiology, University of Melbourne
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Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical & Physical Biology, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Vanderbilt University
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Ph.D. Student in Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Entomology and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Penn State
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Professor of International Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Mathematical Modelling, UCL
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
