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UCC on COVID-19 in The Conversation: News and Analysis
6 Jan 2022
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The Conversation is an online news and anlysis platform that offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. UCC academics contribute expert insights and analysis on COVID-19 to this platform.
Here's some of UCC contributions to conversations on the pandemic to date:
2021
- Calling children ‘vectors’ during COVID-19 is turning into discrimination
- COVID vaccines for under-16s: why competent children in the UK can legally decide for themselves
- Why big pharma had a responsibility to profit from the pandemic
- Seven modern philosophers to help us build a better world after the pandemic
- How COVID-19 is likely to slow down a decade of youth development in Africa COVID vaccines: why waiving patents won’t fix global shortage – scientist explains
- How are COVID-19 vaccines made? An expert explains
- We need hard science, not software, to power our post-pandemic recovery
2020
- We are facing a difficult winter – but philosophy can help
- Coronavirus linked to greater risk of life-threatening infection in people with obesity
- Coronavirus: in Ireland hundreds of thousands have applied for government support – but is it enough?
- Coronavirus: it feels like we are sliding into a period of unrest, but political philosophy offers hope
- In defence of viruses
- COVID-19: Nigeria should prioritise power supply to health care facilities
- Coronavirus and Spanish flu: economic lessons to learn from the last truly global pandemic
See all the latest from UCC on The Conversation website here.