Breadcrumbs List.
Coronavirus
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Students involved in virus experiment
21 April 2021
Hundreds of students at the University of Auckland are about to get involved in an experiment that could help better understand how viruses like Covid-19 spread.
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'You're not actually living life': benefit recipients suffer increased hardship during Covid
20 April 2021
Covid-19 exacerbated existing levels of material and emotional hardship for people on low core benefit rates, a new study has found.
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Helen Petousis-Harris: Covid and blood clots - what’s the deal?
19 April 2021
Opinion: You are more likely to be hit by lightning than suffer a blood clot after a Covid vaccine. But if you do, it can be serious, Helen Petousis-Harris explains.
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Schools - where creativity goes to die
19 April 2021
Opinion: These are post-normal times: nothing will be "normal" again. Replanting creativity in schools could be what we need to survive, writes Peter O'Connor.
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A super model for the team of 5 million
15 April 2021
The nation's Covid-19 response has relied heavily on contagion modelling. Dion O'Neale is leading work to build a unique model that mirrors the myriad connections of the entire population of New Zealand.
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Rethink needed on how governments manage risk
14 April 2021
Countries need to rethink how they prepare for and manage high-impact risks, according to a new report.
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Prime Minister recognises transformative science
13 April 2021
The 2020 Prime Minister's Science Prize has been awarded to Te Pūnaha Matatini for their contribution to Aotearoa New Zealand’s Covid-19 response.
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The data behind the decision to suspend arrivals from India in New Zealand
12 April 2021
Opinion: The temporary halt on travel from India to New Zealand is unprecedented. But so is the state of Covid-19 in India, writes Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles.
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Siouxsie Wiles stepped up as New Zealand locked down
1 April 2021
Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles is New Zealander of the Year after explaining the science of the Covid-19 pandemic to this country and sometimes the world.
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Covid and the virtual lung
31 March 2021
Professor Merryn Tawhai's work on the virtual lung has led to a vital new tool for medical staff caring for patients hospitalised with serious Covid-related illness.
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The great Covid bin lid mystery – solved
22 March 2021
In late September 2020, there was a new mystery cluster. But how did the people involved catch Covid? It all comes down to adjacent hotel rooms and a domestic flight, explains Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles.
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The trouble with bubbles: When will we get quarantine-free travel in the Pacific?
22 March 2021
Opinion: Much of the Pacific is Covid-free, so our island neighbours need to negotiate opening up travel with New Zealand and other countries carefully. Dr Collin Tukuitonga explains the factors at play.