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Seberapa besar dampak dari mudik masyarakat terhadap kenaikan jumlah kasus dan penyebaran COVID-19 perlu segera diteliti.
The Bard’s plays have an unfair reputation for being hard. You’re probably reading them in the wrong way.
We must figure out how to scale the lockdown up and down as needed – possibly several times. We might need to locally switch areas on and off – not the whole country – to deal with isolated outbreaks.
The nocebo effect could be making more people ill.
It is not the case that all extreme weather events are being made stronger or more frequent.
Trump pulling US funding from WHO served to deflect blame from his own bungled handling of coronavirus.
One practical exit strategy from lockdown would be identifying green zones, and progressively joining them together once it is safe to do so.
A crib sheet for Dominic Raab.
If the pandemic is a sort of climate ‘stress-test’, the world is failing it.
Who can and can’t move and why is crucial to understanding the virus.
We now have the technology to identify people who are on a fast track to developing dementia.
Churches will remain closed over Easter, but theologians have argued over the centuries that faith itself, not ritual, is the heart and soul of Christianity.
Vocal vaccine critics may not find the audience they’re looking for while the pandemic rages.
If wildlife trade is forced underground it could become an even bigger threat to public health, fuel black market prices, and accelerate exploitation and extinction of species in the wild.
We need to be clearer about what’s at stake when deciding how, for what purpose, and against whom, police authority is deployed.
In the past, quarantines were often seen as an excuse for state intervention, and condemned as instruments of despotism.
The fundamental ethos of the NHS is egalitarian.
By not talking about climate change, especially the powerful emotions it can provoke, misinformation and eco-anxiety may take root.
These graphs reveal something you may have not seen illustrated before.
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Research Fellow in Population Health, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Climate Science, University of Oxford
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DPhil Candidate, Neurodegenerative Disorders, University of Oxford
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Economist in AI and Work, University of Oxford
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
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Einstein Professor for the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism, Humboldt University Berlin, and Director, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS); University of Oxford
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Cognitive Archaeology and Archaeoacoustics, University of Oxford
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Research Fellow in Business and Human Rights, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford
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Supernumerary Fellow, Archaeology, University of Oxford
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DPhil Candidate, Department of Atmospheric Physics, University of Oxford
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Oxford
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DPhil Student in Anthropology, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of Natural History, University of Oxford
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Associate professor, University of Oxford