The percentage of people who die from a coronavirus infection is an important number for public health experts to know. Recent estimates now put it at 0.65%, far lower than initially thought.
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Using actors can provide nurses with valuable training dealing with a diverse set of patients.
Dental care guidance from 16 countries around the world has been reviewed to help UK governments create policy that makes a trip to the dentist as safe as possible.
In this week’s round-up of coronavirus articles by scholars around the globe, we explore the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 and the latest on drug trials.
Health systems have very quickly pivoted to providing services online, but there is much more to do if we’re to unlock remote healthcare’s full potential.
A continuous lock down is detrimental to Nigeria’s large population of people living below poverty lines, but lifting the restrictions without a proper plan is equally dangerous. Here’s what to do.
Healthcare practitioners face a difficult situation – they have the right to be protected, but are legally required to treat patients.
Lack of training and skills among those who work in the area may lead to LGBT people receiving poorer palliative care.
Mobile technology has great potential to improve healthcare in Nigeria but government must provide regulatory framework.
We’ve prevented many deaths, many of them at the cost of other deaths. The accounting ought to be made clear.
The idea, says our experts, was to shut down Obamacare. But it didn’t work out that way. This could take on more importance as the number of uninsured swells due to coronavirus.
Images of religious buildings being used to treat the sick shouldn’t come as surprise. The practice has a long tradition, dating back to the Middle Ages.
Robots are helping health care workers and public safety officials more safely and quickly treat coronavirus patients and contain the pandemic. They have something in common: They’re tried and tested.
AI can supplement the efforts of available medical personnel - and help keep them safe.
Despite its proximity to China and South Korea, North Korea says it has no cases of COVID-19.
Bernie Sanders is the antithesis of a political showman who says one thing today, another tomorrow. Perhaps, in the end, that was his undoing.
A group of population experts have called on governments in Latin American and the Caribbean to urgently ramp up testing for COVID-19 before it’s too late.
Trying to maximise lives saved will inevitably be contentious and imperfect.
Cuba stresses its programme to send doctors abroad is based in solidarity. But there are diplomatic and economic reasons too.
A sector-by-sector look at who is benefiting, who is in trouble and who could go either way.
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Health economist, University of Sydney
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Lead for Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, PUSKAPA
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Professor of Health Services Research, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Health Policy, University of York
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Senior Lecturer in Health Care Law and Ethics, Barrister, Solicitor, Swansea University
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Professor, School of Public Health, University of Gothenburg Sweden, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Professor of Leadership and Management, Edge Hill University
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Director, PUSKAPA
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Senior Lecturer: Interprofessional Education Unit, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Healthcare Law & Feminist Ethics, University of Sussex
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Instructor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University
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Research Fellow in Ageing, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
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Director of Center for Health Services Reseach, Associate Professor, Georgia State University
