Tag: SARS-CoV-2
Why you might feel anxious returning to ‘normal’ after lockdown – and how to cope
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As lockdown eases today in New South Wales, and will do so in Victoria later this month, many people will begin...
New preliminary evidence suggests coronavirus jumped from animals to humans multiple times
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The origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been hotly debated.
This debate has caused substantial difficulties in...
How will Delta evolve? Here’s what the theory tells us
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The COVID-19 pandemic is a dramatic demonstration of evolution in action. Evolutionary theory explains much of what has already happened, predicts what...
How does COVID affect the brain? Two neuroscientists explain
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Scientists are becoming more and more concerned with the emergence of a syndrome termed “long COVID”, where a significant percentage of sufferers...
When will we reach herd immunity? Here are 3 reasons that’s a hard question to answer
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As we try to control COVID-19, many people are keen to know what proportion of the population will need to be...
Australia must get serious about airborne infection transmission. Here’s what we need to do
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Australia is now in the grip of its second winter marred by the pandemic, with crippling lockdowns in multiple cities.
Earlier this month,...