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A coronavirus spike may put ICU beds in short supply. But that doesn't mean the elderly shouldn't get them

  • Written by: Paul Komesaroff, Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Although recent encouraging news suggests the rate of new coronavirus cases in Australia is slowing, our medical facilities could still be overwhelmed at some point.

One modelling study has suggested that, if public health measures are not observed or do not work, demand for the existing 2,200 intensive care unit (ICU) beds in Australia...

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Coronavirus support packages will reshape the future economy, and that presents an opportunity

  • Written by: Ilan Noy, Professor and Chair in the Economics of Disasters, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Governments across the world have rolled out extensive financial packages to support individuals, businesses and large corporations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Equally, central banks have decreased their lending rates to almost zero, and have announced extensive and previously untested direct lending to private corporations and...

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How do viruses mutate and jump species? And why are 'spillovers' becoming more common?

  • Written by: Steve Wylie, Adjunct Associate Professor, Murdoch University
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Viruses are little more than parasitic fragments of RNA or DNA. Despite this, they are astonishingly abundant in number and genetic diversity. We don’t know how many virus species there are, but there could be trillions.

Past viral epidemics have influenced the evolution of all life. In fact, about 8% of the human genome consists...

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Guide to the Classics: Albert Camus' The Plague

  • Written by: Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Deakin University

Some weeks ago, I got an email from a student who had returned to Northern Italy over Christmas to see family.

Unable to return to Australia, they were in lockdown. The hospitals were filling up fast, as COVID-19 began to spiral out of control. Sales of Albert Camus’ 1947 novel The Plague (La Peste) were spiking. Everyone was buying it.

Rere...

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  13. Sleep won't cure the coronavirus but it can help our bodies fight it
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  21. Scott Morrison is steering in the right direction, but we're going to need a bigger boat
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  26. Morrison has rescued childcare from COVID-19 collapse – but the details are still murky
  27. Free child care to help nearly one million families, especially workers in essential services
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  29. 1 in 10 children affected by bushfires is Indigenous. We've been ignoring them for too long
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  31. what are Australia's obligations to cruise ships off its coast under international law?
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  37. How coronavirus challenges Muslims' faith and changes their lives
  38. Australia's post-war recovery program provides clues as to how to get out of this
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