COVID-19
Alternative labels
Coronavirus disease 2019
Novel coronavirus pneumonia
2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease
Report
The experience of volunteers during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
During the current COVID-19 crisis, volunteers have done their part in following the physical distancing requirements, at a large cost to themselves and to the communities that they serve. Finding a way to harness this volunteer workforce throughout the current pandemic is a vitally important policy challenge.
Briefing paper
What motivates people to download and continue to use the COVIDSafe app?
This rapid research brief responds to the question: what motivates people to download and continue to use the COVIDSafe app?
Briefing paper
The most promising therapeutics for COVID-19
This rapid research brief responds to the question - what are the most promising COVID-19 therapeutics in development globally and nationally, and what are their mechanisms of action, their stage of development and their strengths and limitations?
Article
Friday essay: voices from the bush – how lockdown affects remote Indigenous communities differently
This article explores what self-isolation, social distancing means for one of Australia’s most remote Aboriginal communities, and how these communities cope with viral vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Working paper
Electoral management under COVID-19
This paper finds that election administrators seeking to plan their activities against the background of COVID-19 will be confronted with uncertainty on a grand scale, making their task more akin to preparing for elections in insecure places such as Iraq or Afghanistan than getting ready for a normal election in Australia. They may be forced...