Breadcrumbs List.
Coronavirus
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First responders: researchers on the pandemic frontline
2 December 2021
Researchers and technical staff volunteered time and expertise in New Zealand's Covid response. This video acknowledges their work at a time of national crisis.
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Anne Bardsley: is there such a thing as a post-pandemic future?
1 December 2021
Opinion: Anne Bardsley from Koi Tū says we will adjust to a level of endemic Covid, but will have many other consequences to address.
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Comfort food in lockdown: new research on our unhealthy eating
22 November 2021
We all guessed comfort eating surged during lockdown. New research suggests just how much.
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Anne Salmond: Hope on the horizon
16 November 2021
Opinion: Dame Anne Salmond looks back at solutions to calamities 100 years ago as a guide to what our leaders must do now on the big issues of Covid and climate.
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Easing children back into school
15 November 2021
Opinion: This week, the priority in primary schools should be for children to catch up with relationships rather than catch up with school work, writes Peter O'Connor.
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Urgent reform of Working for Families needed not tinkering
9 November 2021
Opinion: If the government cares about child poverty if would immediately fix the fatal flaw in Working for Families, says Associate Professor Susan St John.
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Time to listen to New Zealanders with disabilities
8 November 2021
Opinion: New ministry for disabled people cannot come soon enough, writes Susanna Trnka.
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University gets behind 'GotYaDot' vaccination campaign
5 November 2021
Waipapa Taumata Rau The University of Auckland is swinging in behind this weekend’s campaign ‘ira dot’, aiming to increase vaccinated Māori with pop-up centres across Tāmaki Makaurau.
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Lockdowns are challenging but kids are resilient
3 November 2021
Children in Aotearoa New Zealand have displayed strength in the face of adversity according to the world’s largest survey looking at the impact of Covid-19 restrictions on children’s health, wellbeing and education.
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Delta immunisation: easy or hard, but inevitable either way
3 November 2021
Hard or easy: the choise is simple when it comes to protection against the Delta strain, writes Rod Jackson.
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Taking health services to Māori: learning from the past
1 November 2021
Opinion: Deborah Dunsford draws parallels between the Covid-19 vaccination campaign and a drive to get Māori x-ray rates up during TB outbreaks in the 40s and 50s.
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Time for bold action for children
20 October 2021
Opinion: The problems of inadequate income are not new, but are thrown into stark relief in the Covid lockdown, writes Associate Professor Susan St John.