Experts and organisations sharing their views and advice.
Cities across the U.S. and world are closing streets to traffic in response to the pandemic, offering a glimpse of a world where cars are no longer king.
Newshub
Get ready for the day you feel like wearing jeans again
Stuff
SPONSORED: Feeling a bit ‘bleurgh’? Here’s how to make healthier decisions while you’re stuck at home.
DW.COM
The economic impact of COVID-19 has hit the world economy like a freight train. The aftereffects may be felt for years. But comparisons with World War II should give as much cause for hope as despair.
Newshub
The Government needs to guarantee 100 percent of the debt, they say.
Doing only what you need to do to stay employed is a totally reasonable response to quarantine.
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Amid crisis and disruption, we crave the calm of normality. But can we ever really define what “normal” is?
The Spinoff
In the second of a series featuring business leaders assessing the world that will rise after Covid-19, consultant Roger Dennis looks at the lessons that can be learned from the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake. Never waste a crisis. This should be the mantra that guides political dec
Celebrated in the last week of April, World Immunization Week aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease.
Newsroom
The Government is rolling out a $50 million support package for NZ media companies with more to come in three weeks-time. But, as Mark Jennings writes, it is unlikely to save all the current players and a bolder approach is needed.
Stuff
OPINION: They all share a common disdain for science, in contrast to the leaders who have been most successful in combating Covid-19.
The Intercept
The president’s attack on Andrew Cuomo misfired, and he mistakenly referred to the 1918 flu pandemic as something that happened in 1917 for the 24th time.
There are no drugs proven to help doctors treat the disease, but work is under way around the world.
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Disease outbreaks can quickly become pandemics in a globalised world. But we have already shown how they can be contained, and beaten.
interest.co.nz
Commercial landlords and tenants need to realise they are joined at the hip and may need to start setting rents as a percentage of the tenant's turnover
Stuff
OPINION: An obsessive focus on public debt may make it harder to manage economic crises.
Newshub
The former Finance Minister worries his successor is waiting for Budget Day - three weeks away - to help businesses.
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Everybody hates a double standard. But leaders who don’t follow their own rules may be doing so for reasons that make perfect sense to them.
Asia Times
The Covid-19 pandemic is really a consequence, not a cause, of the geopolitical confrontation between the United States and China. Had there been mutual trust and good bilateral relations, Beijing …
DW.COM
A crisis can be a turning point for a society. Which way will we go now? Professor Yuval Noah Harari, whose company donated $1 million to WHO, explains how the decisions we make today on COVID-19 will change our future.
There's a strategic way to push back against your remote manager's hypersurveillance during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Spinoff
Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand. This week he talks to Mel Lewis from Ultrella. Every day a lot of people get up and apply
Some people who have recovered from COVID-19 say this technique helped their lungs when they were sick. Here's what experts think.
The contagiousness and deadliness of COVID-19 have necessitated drastic social management to halt transmission. We investigate the immediate effects of a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19 by comparing matched samples of New Zealanders assessed before (Npre-lockdown = 1003) and in the two weeks following (Nlockdown = 1003) the lockdown. We examine two categories of outcomes:
Environmental crises must not be forgotten amid the pandemic, says the UN Secretary General.
