How African countries coordinated the response to COVID-19: lessons for public health
The COVID-19 pandemic spread much slower on the African continent than in the rest of the world, contrary to predictions. ...
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lessons from urban planning in COVID
Blogs are a double-edged sword. These online essays can be produced by anyone with access to a computer and the ...
a review of the evidence shows they are safe
COVID vaccines have been contentious ever since they were developed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, though the evidence is ...
COVID hurt West and Central Africa’s small-scale fishers. They need more support
From Senegal through Ghana to Cameroon, small-scale fishing is both a livelihood and a way of life for people in ...
Five actions to prepare African countries better for the next pandemic
Globally, cases of COVID-19 and related deaths are lower in June 2022 than they were at the beginning of the ...
Male voices dominated South African COVID reporting: that has to change
The onset of the COVID pandemic and the many months of uncertainty, anxiety and push for scientific breakthroughs sent journalists ...
South Africa’s economy has taken some heavy body blows: can it recover?
Economists are growing increasingly concerned about South Africa’s economy. This is because the country’s three major macroeconomic problems – lacklustre ...
Unvaccinated South Africans told us why they weren’t interested in having COVID jabs
South Africa is currently facing a new wave of infections related to the much higher transmissibility of the omicron COVID ...
How a desire to help led me to track COVID numbers and make sense of them through graphs
As COVID took hold in South Africa, daily case numbers grew. But the numbers people were seeing online or on ...
physics-inspired simulations predict waves in four countries
As a physicist, I am trained to look for patterns in data. For example, the motion of the tiniest particles ...
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