Analysis
Doing the maths on AstraZeneca
If our brains are so bad at assessing risk, how do we rationally decide whether to have AstraZeneca’s vaccine?
- by Liam Mannix
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Explainer
The lowdown on lockdowns: Do they work?
We are being asked to do something against human nature, but it’s our social ways that spread the virus. So what do we know about lockdowns so far?
- by Liam Mannix
Analysis
Worried about AstraZeneca? Me too. The way we think about risk might be the problem
The reason I’m worrying far more about AstraZeneca’s side effects than I probably should reveals how our brains think about risk. And how they often get it wrong.
- by Liam Mannix
Experts blast local research into COVID treatments, decry lack of effort to understand vaccine take-up
A team of six medical research experts issued the damning indictment of taxpayer-funded COVID-19 research and called for reform of the sector.
- by Liam Mannix
Explainer
‘Beam me up, Scotty’: Will we ever teleport or travel the universe (and live on Mars)?
In the fourth part of our series exploring the science behind sci-fi, we look at wormholes, warp drives and “spooky action at a distance”.
- by Sherryn Groch and Liam Mannix
Vaccinated people catching COVID no cause for alarm, say experts
Cases of fully vaccinated Australians catching COVID-19 are part and parcel of how vaccines work and should not raise undue concerns, say experts in the field.
- by Liam Mannix
Updated
Impossible to predict whether Melbourne cases will grow or fizzle
Top epidemiologists say the random nature of COVID-19 makes it hard to know if Victoria’s small outbreak will lead to sustained infections or simply peter out.
- by Liam Mannix
Cutting up COVID: Doherty, Peter Mac working on new anti-viral technique
Melbourne-based scientists have developed a new anti-viral technique that can be quickly tweaked to target viruses including COVID-19 – an important step on the path toward new pandemic defences.
- by Liam Mannix
Explainer
What difference does it make when you get your second AstraZeneca jab?
A quick guide to what we know about shortening the interval between doses of AstraZeneca.
- by Liam Mannix
Heart inflammation warning added to Pfizer jab
Pfizer’s vaccines will carry new warning statements, after a potential link to a small increased risk of heart inflammation was detected in the US.
- by Liam Mannix and Rachel Clun
Leading scientists push back against Wuhan lab leak theory
Leading virologists, including Australian Nobel laureate Professor Peter Doherty, have released a paper setting out their strongest case for COVID-19 emerging from an animal.
- by Liam Mannix