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Why are older people more at risk of coronavirus?

Image: Shuttlestock As we learn more about COVID-19, it’s increasingly clear that your risk of severe illness and death increases with age. Children under nine years...

To limit coronavirus risks on public transport, here’s what we can learn from efforts overseas

Picture: Yale Wong, Author provided Public transport in our cities is highly vulnerable to disease outbreaks such as the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. However, public transport is the...

‘Cabin fever’: Australia must prepare for the social and psychological impacts of a coronavirus lockdown

As the COVID-19 outbreak intensifies, we’re seeing mass isolation in virus epicentres, with about 500 million people in China “under varying degrees of quarantine”, and...

What is a virus? How do they spread? How do they make us sick?

NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), U.S. NIH, CC BY-SA Viruses are the most common biological entities on Earth. Experts estimate there are around 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them, and if...

‘Fever clinics’ are opening in Australia for people who think they’re infected with the coronavirus. Why?

Image: Shuttlecock The Western Australian health minister has announced “fever clinics” are to open this week for people who think they have coronavirus symptoms. And in NSW, the chief...

Worried about your child getting coronavirus? Here’s what you need to know

Picture: Shutterstock The new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease COVID-19, has infected nearly 90,000 people and caused more than 3,000 deaths so far. Parents are understandably concerned....

Smallpox, seatbelts and smoking: 3 ways public health has saved lives from history to the modern day

Picture: Shutterstock The coronovirus outbreak has reminded us of the importance of public health responses in managing the spread of disease. But what actually is public...

It’s now a matter of when, not if, for Australia. This is how we’re preparing for a jump in coronavirus cases

  While countries around the globe have been taking precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, it has...

Stocking up to prepare for a crisis isn’t ‘panic buying’. It’s actually a pretty rational choice

Jerome Favre / EPA Recent days have brought reports of shoppers clearing out supermarket shelves from Wuhan and Hong Kong to Singapore and Milan in response to the spread of coronavirus. This...

Is cruising still safe? Will I be insured? What you need to know about travelling during the coronavirus crisis

Picture: DANIEL DAL ZENNARO/EPA The coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) has now reached more than 80,000 recorded cases, largely concentrated in China, with a death toll over 2,700 and...
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