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Searching for human factors in the pandemic
Since the outbreak of COVID19, the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine (CHM) at The University of Hong Kong, has…
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The contagious power of fear: why some believe that panic is a virus
Professor Rober Peckham, MB Lee Professor in the Humanities and Medicine; Chair of Department of History & Director of Centre…
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[Bloomberg] Can We Overcome Pandemics? Why Do Pandemics Keep Happening?
Cholera, bubonic plague, smallpox, and influenza, are some of the most deadly diseases in human history. And when they spread…
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[BMJ Opinion] The covid-19 outbreak has shown we need strategies to manage panic during epidemics
February 21, 2020 Covid-19 has sparked panic in Hong Kong and across the region. In Singapore, Indonesia, and Japan people…
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[Independent] I’ve studied the history of viral outbreaks. Coronavirus panic shows how little China learned from SARS
Politics shouldn’t be brought into public health: this has been one of the resounding messages promoted during the current coronavirus…
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