Breadcrumbs List.
Coronavirus
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Covid-19: ‘I cried quietly to myself – we had beaten it’
17 March 2021
Opinion: A year ago Shaun Hendy and colleagues kicked off a plan to model the spread of Covid in order to beat it. He had no idea of the tough emotional challenge ahead.
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Reducing organ failure in acute critical illness including Covid-19
16 March 2021
Acute critical illness can result from many different initiating causes such as severe infection, trauma or inflammation states like acute pancreatitis.
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Auckland scientist helps unravel mystery of Covid-19 brain effects
11 March 2021
Neuroscientist Helen Murray’s expertise with a tiny part of the brain has given her a role in unravelling the mysteries of Covid-19’s neurological effects.
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Women can’t be excluded from vaccine trials
8 March 2021
Opinion: On International Women’s Day, Nikki Turner, Immunisation Advisory Centre director, talks about vaccine clinical trials and why women should never be excluded.
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Brands leverage Covid-19 lockdown to market unhealthy food
8 March 2021
Companies selling snacks and fast food leveraged Aotearoa’s first pandemic lockdown to market unhealthy products.
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Why we should vaccinate Pacific Islands early
4 March 2021
Opinion: Collin Tukuitonga explains why making New Zealand citizens of the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau a priority for the Covid-19 vaccine is a good investment.
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How did we get vaccines so quickly?
2 March 2021
Opinion: In less than a year, the world has a number of available licensed Covid-19 vaccines – this is incredible progress. Nikki Turner summarises how it was done.
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Collin Tukuitonga: our Covid-19 message is clear
1 March 2021
Dr Collin Tukuitonga is trying to spread simple scientific health messages to Pacific communities and beyond.
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How the Pfizer vaccine for Covid-19 works
24 February 2021
Opinion: With the roll-out of a Covid-19 vaccine gathering steam across New Zealand, here’s a quick explainer from Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles on what goes into it and how it works.
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Sir Peter Gluckman on global Covid mapping panel
18 February 2021
A University of Auckland scientist is a key member of a new international panel mapping future Covid-19 scenarios.
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How New Zealand sleuths are investigating the new mystery Covid cases
17 February 2021
Opinion: The scarcity of Covid-19 cases in New Zealand allows our formidable scientists to learn things you simply can’t in places where the virus is widespread. This helps us not just strengthen our controls but contribute to the world’s understanding, writes Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles.
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The economics of happiness and well-being
17 February 2021
New Zealand has its own world expert on the economics of happiness. Professor Robert MacCulloch says the pandemic is an opportunity to show how we could do a lot better.