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Editor's note
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The Conversation’s international network of academic experts has been providing informed analysis and explanation of the rapidly developing coronavirus story since it became clear that it was a hugely significant global health matter.
It has of course become much more than that, too, with various conspiracy theories and economic impacts spreading in the wake of the virus. Conversation editors around the world are drawing on expert knowledge to show how COVID-19 is developing as a health crisis, how it is being handled in countries at the heart of the storm, and how the rest of the world is preparing.
We recently published a global newsletter highlighting some of our articles on the early phase of the outbreak. We plan more. Stay tuned to this page for ongoing coverage – information that is designed to help and explain, not to scare.
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Commuters jam a Toronto subway platform. Widespread adoption of habits that help prevent infection may boost behavioural herd immunity.
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Peter Hall, University of Waterloo
Large-scale adoption of simple, individual actions — like disinfecting our germ-laden phone screens — can limit the ability of COVID-19 to get a foothold.
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Coronavirus seems to be on a collision course with the US economy and its 12-year bull market.
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Michael Walden, North Carolina State University
An economist explains how a virus like COVID-19 could disrupt the US economy – and why it's too soon to freak out just yet.
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Daniel Jolley, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Pia Lamberty, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Conspiracy theories bloom in times of uncertainty and foster distrust of medical authorities.
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Politics + Society
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Marcia Gibson, University of Glasgow
Short-term schemes make it difficult to assess, but nine basic income-style programmes from Canada to Iran reveal some fascinating outcomes.
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Inderjeet Parmar, City, University of London
The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft threatens to radically realign the politics of US national security.
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Zoe Miller, University of Manchester
It's dehumanising when cartoonists use images of sexual violence to make broad-brush comments about society.
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Mohamed Taha, SOAS, University of London
Mubarak held power for three decades, on the foundation of a personality cult.
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Shireen Kassam, University of Winchester
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