How pandemics end?

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You are probably sick of quarantine and wish life would go back to the way it was before the Covid-19 Pandemic spread across the globe. Now all you can do is hope that this Pandemic ends soon, but how could that happen? In today’s video we’re going to look back at previous pandemics in history […]

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Things we know at the end of 2020 (part 1)

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2020, what a year! Melbourne University researchers, Zena Cumpston, Professor Andrew Dawson, Professor Peter Doherty AC, and Professor Guay Lim discuss a year in review from an Australian perspective on how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed our way of life in 2020: “Things we know at the end of 2020 (part 1)”. First published in […]

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University Covid-19 Class of 2020 guidance

Priory Group issues advice for young people becoming undergraduates during a pandemic

Thousands of young people across the country are preparing for that well-established rite of passage – heading to university for the start of the new academic year. Priory expert offers advice on becoming an undergraduate during a pandemic: COVID-19 has transformed life at university Experts say it risks heightening feelings of loneliness, depression Using alcohol […]

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Social distancing decreased paediatric respiratory tract infections in Finland

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Finland declared a lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, and the ensuing social distancing measures decreased the number of paediatric emergency room visits to nearly one-third of what they used to be, according to a recent register-based study conducted in collaboration between the University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio University Hospital and […]

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Pharmacists challenged by social distancing

Pharmacists ‘unable to maintain social distancing’ at work and risk infection. A new snapshot survey of pharmacists from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society shows that the majority of pharmacists are unable to maintain social distancing at work and one in three still can’t get continuous supplies of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). A huge 94% of respondents […]

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