Tag: COVID-19
To limit coronavirus risks on public transport, here’s what we can learn from efforts overseas
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Public transport in our cities is highly vulnerable to disease outbreaks such as the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. However, public transport is the...
5 ways nutrition could help your immune system fight off the coronavirus
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The coronavirus presents many uncertainties, and none of us can completely eliminate our risk of getting COVID-19. But one thing we can do...
‘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?
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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...
Coronavirus is a huge story, so journalists must apply the highest ethical standards in how they tell it
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From an ethical perspective, covering the coronavirus story is really hard to do well.
The reason for this lies in an...
‘Fever clinics’ are opening in Australia for people who think they’re infected with the coronavirus. Why?
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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...