COVID-19
Alternative labels
Coronavirus disease 2019
Novel coronavirus pneumonia
2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease
Position paper
Open for minds: export education and recovery
Eric Crampton presents the case for why the New Zealand Government should quickly reopen the country's borders to international students.
Strategy
National mental health and wellbeing pandemic response plan
This plan sets out a direction to help navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic with the mental health of Australians intact, and with specific service responses for people who need them.
Report
Human rights and Te Tiriti o Waitangi: COVID-19 and alert level 4 in Aotearoa New Zealand
The New Zealand Government’s approach to COVID-19 has some significant shortcomings. This short report provides ten ‘snapshots’ of how the Level 4 lockdown impacted upon human rights and Te Tiriti. It is hoped New Zealand can learn from this experience as the country take steps in Level 3 towards recovery. While there is much to...
Report
Availability of COVID-19 related products on Tor darknet markets
Tor darknet markets are frequently used as a litmus test of illicit drug and malware trends, as well as criminal novelty and entrepreneurship more generally. Crime follows opportunity and the COVID-19 pandemic offers profiteering arising from shortages and fear.
Briefing paper
The predictive value of serological testing during the COVID-19 pandemic
This paper responds to a request for advice on the predictive value of serological antibody tests and the comparability of point-of-care tests to laboratory tests.