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Masks, RATs and clean air: how people with disability can protect themselves from COVID

24 Feb 2022

While public health measures in schools and hospitals aim to reduce COVID transmission, people with disability who have support workers in their homes have largely been forgotten.

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Australia is failing marginalised people, and it shows in COVID death rates

21 Feb 2022

People living in poverty or disadvantage are three times more likely to die from COVID than the wealthy.

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How can we get better at telling misinformation from reliable expert consensus?

15 Feb 2022

UNSW psychology researchers have shown how to better communicate key messages and avoid misinformation.

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Vital Signs: small businesses need help through shadow lockdowns

11 Feb 2022

For many small businesses the past month has been the most difficult period of the pandemic. Australia needs a better plan to help more survive.

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The COVIDSafe app was designed to help contact tracers. Here's what really happened

07 Feb 2022

Instead of making the lives of contact tracers easier, analysis shows the expensive technology missed contacts and added to their workload.

Holly Seale

10 Minute Genius: Holly Seale on communicating in a pandemic

01 Feb 2022

It’s no secret Australia’s vaccine rollout had a rocky start… but now, 18 months later, our vaccination rate is amongst the highest in the world. 

But our impressive 80 per cent+ coverage doesn't tell the full story... 

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Five things to know about supply chains and COVID-19 stock shortages

01 Feb 2022

Stock shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic are about more than just panic buying or labour shortages in supply chains, says UNSW Business School's Professor Jack Cadeaux

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Will an Omicron-specific vaccine help control COVID? There’s one key problem

25 Jan 2022

Variant-specific vaccines would undoubtedly increase immunity. But waves of new variants would engulf the population faster than these vaccines could ever be deployed.

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Vital Signs: disclosure please, we shouldn't be playing bingo with COVID statistics

21 Jan 2022

Governments should tell us everything they know about infections, hospitalisations and deaths. So why aren’t they?

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Federal government slashes COVID payment when people need it most

20 Jan 2022

With Australia now in the worst stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, there couldn't be a worse time to restrict Pandemic Leave Disaster Payments.

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