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Despite thinking of ourselves as anti-authoritarian, Australians have a high tolerance for government intervention in their lives, if they believe it is for the common good.
We need better national monitoring of children’s fitness levels.
Three principles are missing from Victoria’s approach: a recognition of global best practices, a breadth of expertise and an ability to look at the long-term consequences of its decisions.
The modelling assumes infections are fairly evenly distributed. They are not. It ought to be possible to reopen low-infection postcodes first.
Interviews reveal personal toll of supporting people in dangerous situations over the phone.
Dear Diary, keeping a daily journal of these pandemic times can help us process them and follow in some great literary footsteps.
Fewer cases, fewer deaths and earlier lockdowns were in evidence across nations with female figureheads.
Universities need to consult more with those at the sharp end of the changes forced by the coronavirus, and that means the students.
Experts from France, Spain and the UK explain how Europe should respond to a rise in coronavirus cases.
The ancient term ‘acedia’ describes the paradoxical combination of jangling nerves and vague lack of purpose many of us are feeling now. Reviving the label might help.
One of the hard things about life during a pandemic is the all encompassing lack of certainty. The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard can help us make our peace with this situation.
COVID-19 may have messed up school and shut down a lot of entertainment venues. But you can still brighten things up by doing a little stargazing at night, an astronomer says.
Being away from school may have had benefits for some teenagers.
Disrupted routines, inaccessible health services and triggering public behaviours made the pandemic especially difficult.
Challenge trials – purposefully exposing volunteers to the coronavirus – could speed up the development of a vaccine. But there are serious ethical concerns with this approach.
The traffic light alert system, first proposed in response to the 2003 Beijing SARS outbreak, is already being used around the world to classify travel and inform restrictions in classrooms.
Coronavirus has shown the need for a radical overhaul of national strategies on domestic violence.
The Roman Stoic Seneca is the author of many letters and dialogues that can help us overcome adversity.
Regular eating, social interaction and decreasing stress can all help when trying to reassert control over an eating disorder.
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Chair of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies, Adjunct Professor in the School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Former Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professional Research Fellow, Victoria University
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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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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand
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Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Economics, De Montfort University
