Episode 8: Lost Voice – COVID's impact on eliminating malaria
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to derail global efforts against killer infectious diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV, leading to...
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Helping us to make sense of the many impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic through science. Why is it so hard to crush this pandemic and will we solve this complex problem? Digging through the...
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Episode 7: Modelling COVID-19 – Can we predict the future?
Episode 7: Modelling COVID-19: Can we predict the future? In an island-continent like Australia, with a population of almost 26 million, how...
Episode 6: Motherhood in a time of pandemic
For some pregnant women in Australia, the arrival of COVID-19 ushered in an unusually strange and lonely time. Reassuring face-to-face anten...
Episode 5: Is COVID-normal really possible?
Asking people to behave differently to how they would normally, is complicated. In a country like Australia, with over 270 different ancestr...
Episode 4 – Everyone's an epidemiologist
Epidemiologists have become the new rock stars in an era of coronavirus. It's these 'disease detectives' who have kept the world informed ab...
Episode 3 – No one is safe until everyone is safe
Why can't a wealthy country like Australia, with its world-class medical resources simply shut out COVID-19? In this episode, Burnet Institu...
Episode 2 – Are vaccines the silver bullet?
The speed of vaccine development for COVID-19 has amazed the most seasoned of scientists. So, how did we get here so fast? And will the vacc...
Episode 1 – A year like no other, the pandemic continues
Why was COVID-19 the virus that become a pandemic? In early 2020 as bushfires ravaged the east coast of Australia, there was an even bigger...
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Helping us to make sense of the many impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic through science. Why is it so hard to keep a lid on a pandemic? Sift...