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The Conversation today launches a weekly international roundup of the whole network’s coronavirus news analysis and explainer articles. Each week, a health editor from one of our eight editions will bring you a carefully chosen selection of expert content relating to the latest COVID-19 developments.
The global crisis is evolving rapidly and we aim to give you the best information and advice from our unique network of academic experts. Today, Martin J. Bull looks at Italy, the country with the second highest coronavirus death rate. The government has taken the drastic step of announcing a quarantine of the entire country as the number of Italians testing positive for the virus spiralled beyond 7,000.
From Africa today Shabir Madhi answers some critical questions about the new coronavirus while Howard Phillips draws lessons from South Africa’s appalling management of soldiers returning from the war in Europe in 1918 as the Spanish flu broke out.
Peter McCaffery also debunks rumours that massive doses of vitamin C might cure COVID-19, and Jelena Kecmanovic takes a look at how to stop coronavirus-related anxiety spiralling out of control.
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