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How Science Matters

Helping us to make sense of the many impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic through science. Why is it so hard to crush this pandemic and will we solve this complex problem? Digging through the science of... Read more

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Episode 8: Lost Voice – COVID's impact on eliminating malaria

Episode 8: Lost Voice – COVID's impact on eliminating malaria

The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to derail global efforts against killer infectious diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, ... Read more

13 Sep 2021

37mins

Ranked #2

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Episode 7: Modelling COVID-19 – Can we predict the future?

Episode 7: Modelling COVID-19 – Can we predict the future?

Episode 7: Modelling COVID-19: Can we predict the future?     In an island-continent like Australia, with a population o... Read more

6 Sep 2021

35mins

Ranked #3

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Episode 6: Motherhood in a time of pandemic

Episode 6: Motherhood in a time of pandemic

For some pregnant women in Australia, the arrival of COVID-19 ushered in an unusually strange and lonely time. Reassurin... Read more

30 Aug 2021

37mins

Ranked #4

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Episode 5: Is COVID-normal really possible?

Episode 5: Is COVID-normal really possible?

Asking people to behave differently to how they would normally, is complicated. In a country like Australia, with over 2... Read more

23 Aug 2021

39mins

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Episode 4 – Everyone's an epidemiologist

Episode 4 – Everyone's an epidemiologist

Epidemiologists have become the new rock stars in an era of coronavirus. It’s these ‘disease detectives’ who have kept t... Read more

9 Aug 2021

38mins

Ranked #6

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Episode 3 – No one is safe until everyone is safe

Episode 3 – No one is safe until everyone is safe

Why can’t a wealthy country like Australia, with its world-class medical resources simply shut out COVID-19? In this epi... Read more

9 Aug 2021

33mins

Ranked #7

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Episode 2 – Are vaccines the silver bullet?

Episode 2 – Are vaccines the silver bullet?

The speed of vaccine development for COVID-19 has amazed the most seasoned of scientists. So, how did we get here so fas... Read more

9 Aug 2021

43mins

Ranked #8

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Episode 1 – A year like no other, the pandemic continues

Episode 1 – A year like no other, the pandemic continues

Why was COVID-19 the virus that become a pandemic? In early 2020 as bushfires ravaged the east coast of Australia, there... Read more

9 Aug 2021

38mins

Ranked #9

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Helping us to make sense of the many impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic through science. Why is it so hard to keep a lid... Read more

22 Jul 2021

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