Experts and organisations sharing their views and advice.
The Spinoff
The public health response to Covid-19 showed New Zealand at its best. What will the economic response reveal? Iain White, a professor of environmental planning, on the risks ahead. Crises reveal. They bring the nature of societies to light. From the differing attitude to experts between countrie
the Guardian
Medical researchers have been studying everything we know about Covid-19. What have they learned – and is it enough to halt the pandemic?
The Spinoff
The director general of health hosted a Facebook live event this afternoon. It got a little sketchy at times. “I’m not as practised at this as the prime minister,” said Ashley Bloomfield at the start of a Facebook live event, wherein he traded out the press gallery for some moderately screened qu
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How does a gin company start creating sanitiser at short notice? Switching products can be faster and easier than you might imagine – and can help businesses survive, too.
The US must not repeat the same mistake it made after 9/11 by allowing the scapegoating of a whole minority population.
www.oneroof.co.nz
New Zealand's property market has shifted quite dramatically in the last two months, with economists and real estate experts moving from forecasts of house price lifts to warnings of a downturn.
The Nation
A growing movement says debt forgiveness for developing nations would “free up resources to tackle urgent health, social and economic crises.”
Stuff
A CT scan taken on a US Covid-19 patient showed dead cells and viral particles scattered across his lungs like bits of broken glass.
Newsroom
In lockdown, noise, light and air pollution are all greatly reduced, and birds and other wildlife are more visible and audible. Margaret Stanley explains how we might keep them in the cities.
HowStuffWorks
Influenza, Ebola and COVID-19 are all viruses. Find out what a virus does to your body and how to decrease your chance of exposure.
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Kiwis whose finances have taken a hit as a result of the Covid-19 crisis should take up the mortgage payment deferrals being offered by the banks, mortgage and real estate expert Mike Pero.
HowStuffWorks
Viruses need hosts to replicate and reproduce. So if a virus has no host, how long can it survive? It depends on a lot of factors.
Rolling Stone
How Donald Trump failed at the single most important task of the Oval Office: keeping the American people safe from harm
New Zealand government needs to show more resolve to repatriate Kiwis stranded in India, rather than just sheepishly shifting the responsibility of their own inactions on a covid-19 related lockdown in a foreign country.
RNZ
Work has disappeared and their savings are dwindling, but casual health workers hope they can help again.
The Intercept
Depending on how the world responds to the emerging challenges of the coronavirus, we could weather this storm — and maybe even make our societies stronger.
Harvard Business Review
Five strategic questions to ask.
Newsroom
In the latest of the Newsroom CEO interview series on responses to the economic crisis, the country's leading unionist Richard Wagstaff tells Rod Oram the CTU has become a key part of the social support structure during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Science
Considering the history and science behind making these drugs, “a year to 18 months would be absolutely unprecedented,” one expert warns.
the Guardian
Are state responses to the virus shifting the balance of power between China and the west?
Newsroom
Our Two Cents' Worth business podcast answers listeners’ questions around how Covid-19 might change the world. Here: how will it change the design of everyday objects?
With the help of a fantasy creature, Ario, “My Hero is You, How kids can fight COVID-19!” explains how children can protect themselves, their families and friends from coronavirus
the Guardian
The long read: Attacked by Trump and ignored by many of its most powerful members, the World Health Organization is facing a major crisis – just at the moment we need it most
RNZ
In a world with no Covid-19, Taranaki would be full of mourners this Easter weekend, paying respect to and farewelling Dr Te Huirangi Waikerepuru.
Newshub
The simulation also showed that the particles could travel as far as over two supermarket aisles.
