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Rising Coronavirus Cases Among Victorian Health Workers Could Threaten our Pandemic Response
Over the past week, we’ve seen a spike in the number of COVID-19 infections among health-care workers in Victoria. This includes a doctor at Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital, one staff member at Brunswick Private Hospital, nine staff members from the emergency department at Melbourne’s Northern Hospital, and two nurses at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Staff…
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Celebrities Can Be Cancelled, Fandoms Are Forever
Cancel culture — withdrawing support for public figures when they do or say something offensive — has become so widespread it was Macquarie Dictionary’s 2019 word of the year. A practice where people come together to remove the offender’s cultural capital and “cancel” them, the phenomenon has intensified since the outbreak of COVID-19. With so…
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We Mapped Half a Billion Years of Horseshoe Crabs to Save Them From Blood Harvests
If you ventured to the New York seaside in summer, you might see a large dome-shaped animal with a spiky tail, slowly moving towards the water. These are horseshoe crabs – the animals time forgot. Fossil records for horseshoe crabs extend back about 480 million years. This is well over 200 million years before the…
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Is the Airborne Route a Major Source of Coronavirus Transmission?
As the world continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic, one question that keeps coming up is whether COVID-19 can be transmitted through the air. In fact, 239 scientists in 32 countries have written an open letter to the World Health Organisation (WHO) arguing there is mounting evidence the airborne route plays a role in…