Is COVID causing a rise in digital nomads?
By Shaun Busuttil Nomads have historically been seen as a threat, but several countries around the world are now actively seeking to attract this growing digital legion through new remote work visas. The coronavirus pandemic has nudged the world into a transitory...
Is our COVID tracer app data protected enough?
By Andrew Chen New Zealand is introducing mandatory record keeping to help contact tracers. But is the data protected enough? From 11:59pm on Tuesday September 7, every person in Aotearoa New Zealand over the age of 12 will be required to keep a record of their...
COVID: What should we be doing for Māori and Pacific peoples?
By Natalie Netzler Covid-19 is hitting our Māori and Pacific communities disproportionately hard. So how can we improve clear, targeted messaging on vaccination? The Covid-19 pandemic continues to create global chaos and devastation. At the time of writing there have...
Should we be worried about COVID vaccine side effects?
By Helen Petousis-Harris Health risks from contracting Covid-19 far outweigh the rare vaccine side effect linked to the woman who died in New Zealand last week. Helen Petousis-Harris explains. After hundreds of millions of Covid-19 vaccination doses given worldwide,...
How will Delta evolve? Here’s what the theory tells us
By Hamish McCallum The COVID-19 pandemic is a dramatic demonstration of evolution in action. Evolutionary theory explains much of what has already happened, predicts what will happen in the future and suggests which management strategies are likely to be the most...
Do COVID vaccination passports have a role to play?
By Paul Garrett As Australia and the world navigates its way to a post-COVID-19 normality, what role should immunity passports play and what does the public think? Australia’s national COVID-19 vaccination rate is on track to hit 70 per cent by November, and the...
What’s the right COVID-19 risk to live with?
By Tony Blakely, Tim Wilson & Vijaya Sundararajan As Australia looks toward opening its international borders, new virus modelling provides scenarios that can help us decide what’s the right risk to tolerate. As Australia inches up its vaccine rollout, the...
What is the context behind the protests in Cuba?
By Democracia Abierta In unprecedented protests, Cubans demonstrated against their government and its mishandling of the pandemic, only to be met with repression. For the first time in over 60 years, thousands of Cubans, in more than 20 towns and cities across the...
Is New Zealand a more cohesive society since Covid-19?
Three Auckland academics give their views on the question of whether we are a more cohesive society thanks to the pandemic. Foundations were laid long ago Despite dramatic shifts in national priorities and the gap in wealth that is increasing over time, New Zealand...Subscribe by Email
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