The COVID-19 pandemic is the largest and worst relay race in history. Without vaccines or reliable treatment on the horizon, when the curve goes down in one region it goes up in another. Prevention and isolation measures remain the most effective ways to control the curve. But the disease continues to affect not only human health, but all aspects of our lives.
The Conversation’s international network is working with researchers around the world to report on the latest science, the economy, and the impact of the pandemic in various parts of the world. Here’s our weekly round up.
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Elba Astorga, The Conversation
The pandemic is still raging. Health, money, work, relationships, environment have changed throughout the world, and perhaps permanently so.
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Business + Economy
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Stephen Onyeiwu, Allegheny College
President Buhari's Post COVID-19 economic recovery plan is neither novel nor ground-breaking.
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David Francis, University of the Witwatersrand; Imraan Valodia, University of the Witwatersrand
The budget is one of the key tools that government has to effect meaningful change.
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Politics
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David MacDonald, University of Guelph
As anti-racism protests take aim at statues of slave owners and racist figures, Canada needs to reassess how it remembers its past.
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Tonny Raymond Kirabira, University of Portsmouth; Leïla Choukroune, University of Portsmouth
The court's decision has wider implications for international criminal law.
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Promod Tandan, University of Westminster
Nepal is angry that India is encroaching into the Kalpani region of the Himalayas, which Nepal claims as its own.
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Henrice Altink, University of York
The killing of George Floyd has sparked debates in Jamaica about police brutality – and class and colour.
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Science + Technology
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Pamela Soltis, University of Florida; Joseph Cook, University of New Mexico; Richard Yanagihara, University of Hawaii
Genetic information that could help finger the next infectious threat is stored in museums around the world.
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Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University
A social media researcher explains how bots and sock puppet accounts manipulate and polarize public debate.
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Environment
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Tancredi Caruso, University College Dublin
Our research on a remote Antarctic island found microplastics in the intestines of tiny animals.
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Amy Y. Vittor, University of Florida; Gabriel Zorello Laporta, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC; Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Universidade de São Paulo
Yellow fever, malaria and Ebola all spilled over from animals to humans at the edges of tropical forests. The new coronavirus is the latest zoonosis.
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