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By The Conversation Shengjie Lai , University of Southampton and Andrew J Tatem , University of Southampton China stuck rigidly to a zero-COVID policy until December 2022. This included travel restrictions, mass testing and mandatory quarantines. The rapid lifting of this strategy led to a surge of COVID infections across the country. There have been concerns that the Chinese lunar new year travel in January may cause this wave of COVID to spread much further and faster, with significant numbers of hospital admissions and deaths. Lunar new year involves hundreds of millions of people travellin...
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By The Conversation Michael Baker , University of Otago ; David Durrheim , University of Newcastle ; Li Yang HSU , National University of Singapore , and Nick Wilson , University of Otago Imagine it is 2030. Doctors in a regional hospital in country X note an expanding cluster of individuals with severe respiratory disease. Rapid whole-genome sequencing identifies the disease-causing agent as a novel coronavirus. Epidemiological investigations suggest the virus is highly infectious, with most initial cases requiring hospitalisation. The episode bears a striking resemblance to the COVID outbrea...
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By The Conversation Manal Mohammed , University of Westminster Since the COVID variant omicron emerged in late 2021, it has rapidly evolved into multiple subvariants. One subvariant, BF.7, has recently been identified as the main variant spreading in Beijing, and is contributing to a wider surge of COVID infections in China. But what is this new variant, and should we be worried? Although reports from China about this variant's characteristics are concerning, it doesn't appear to be growing too much elsewhere in the world. Here's what we know. BF.7, short for BA.5.2.1.7, is a sub-lineage of th...
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By The Conversation A global report released today highlights massive global failures in the response to COVID-19. The report, which was convened by The Lancet journal and to which we contributed, highlights widespread global failures of prevention and basic public health. This resulted in an estimated 17.7 million excess deaths due to COVID-19 (including those not reported) to September 15. Also Read:What Is Omicron BA.4.6, The Covid-19 Variant Spreading Rapidly? The report also highlights that the pandemic has reversed the progress made towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal...
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By Sana Fazili It had been only two months since Akshra Singh had taken admission for an MBBS degree at a university in China when she came back home to Rajasthan's Bharatpur for a vacation in January 2020. By then, the spread of a new 'SARs-like' virus in China had started to make headlines. The World Health Organisation (WHO) was monitoring the situation of a "cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China" at that time. Srinagar resident Anayat Ali Allaie had started his PhD in civil engineering at Shanghai's Tongji University only months before when Covid-19 started spreading. "I remember read...
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By The Conversation Stranger Things' most recent season, which set Netflix viewership milestones and had an estimated budget of $30 million per episode, has a subplot focused around a famed conspiracy of satanism tied to children playing Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) in the 1980s. And it's one that does a pretty good job mirroring the issues society has with conspiracy theory today. On the same weekend of the release of the Season Four finale of Stranger Things, the so-called "freedom convoy" returned to Canada's capital reminding us of the conspiracy-fuelled event from February. Stranger Things'...
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