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October 2, 2024 Jules Dupuy, _Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC)_; Éric Defebvre, _Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne_, and Thomas Barnay, _Université Paris-Est Créteil Val

de Marne (UPEC)_ New research looks at how people perceived the most prominent restrictions and how these perceptions impacted their health. February 2, 2022 Garret Martin, _American

University School of International Service_ Why will calling someone a liar get you thrown out of the UK parliamentary debates, but using defamatory language might not? October 6, 2021 Woody

Holton, _University of South Carolina_ In the summer of 1776, Boston offered smallpox inoculation to everyone and required those who declined to leave town or stay in their homes. March 24,

2021 Thomas Hale, _University of Oxford_ For one year, 600 people tracked 20 types of coronavirus restriction in 186 countries – here’s what they found out. March 14, 2021 Dr Abiodun Musbau

Lawal, _Federal University, Oye Ekiti_ In Nigeria, the unmarried, the unemployed, the less educated and those from the northern parts of the country were most susceptible to psychological

challenges associated with COVID-19 lockdown. February 10, 2021 Emma Milne, _Durham University_ English and Welsh governments are consulting the public about whether they should revoke

temporary abortion rules. October 19, 2020 Meg Elkins, _RMIT University_ and Robert Hoffmann, _RMIT University_ Law enforcement is a blunt tool to achieve social conformity with COVID-safe

rule. It’s time to start thinking about other strategies to promote new norms. July 17, 2020 Richard Holden, _UNSW Sydney_ Research suggests the coronavirus pandemic’s greatest impact is due

to people changing their behaviour voluntarily. So we may be overestimating the costs of government restrictions. July 15, 2020 Rick Sarre, _University of South Australia_ and Juliette

McIntyre, _University of South Australia_ As Melburnians are encouraged to wear masks in public, shops and cafes around Australia can already make mask-wearing a condition of entry. July 7,

2020 Mary-Louise McLaws, _UNSW Sydney_ The best option is for infected people to be admitted to hospitals or other suitable health facilities. This will help prevent transmission within

families. June 30, 2020 Philip Russo, _Monash University_ The Victorian spike serves as a reminder that we are still very much in a pandemic. We need to come to terms with the fact we will

need follow the basics of infection control for some time. June 30, 2020 Kristina Murphy, _Griffith University_; Harley Williamson, _Griffith University_; Jennifer Boddy, _Griffith

University_, and Patrick O'Leary, _Griffith University_ A survey conducted in April revealed more than half the participants flouted social distancing rules to go shopping for

non-essential items, and visit friends or family. June 29, 2020 Mahmoud Elkhodr, _CQUniversity Australia_ Official government guidelines say businesses should not collect customer details in

a book or notepad where other customers can see them. But many establishments haven’t heeded the advice. June 16, 2020 Shaun Hendy, _University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau_; Alex

James, _University of Canterbury_; Audrey Lustig, _Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research_; Michael Plank, _University of Canterbury_; Nicholas Steyn, _University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata

Rau_, and Rachelle Binny, _Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research_ Two new cases of COVID-19 have been announced in New Zealand, after 23 consecutive days with no new cases. But that doesn’t

mean that the country’s elimination efforts have failed. June 12, 2020 Samuel Langton, _Manchester Metropolitan University_ Antisocial behaviour has skyrocketed but that could be due to

people breaching lockdown rules. May 29, 2020 Isabelle Arnulf, _Inserm_ Dreams that are more vivid, more frequent and more striking… Lockdown seems to trouble our nights as well as our days,

and there’s reason to believe that’s not just a figment of our imagination. May 28, 2020 Sotiris Georganas, _City St George's, University of London_ By tracing the location of millions

of devices, Google has mapped the pandemic response at a scale never seen before. May 25, 2020 Andre Spicer, _City St George's, University of London_ Do people at the top think there

is one rule for them and one rule for others? Bluntly, yes, they do. May 7, 2020 Paula Keaveney, _Edge Hill University_ For the government a Sunday announcement has several advantages, many

of them to do with the news agenda. May 6, 2020 Bhaskar Chakravorti, _Tufts University_ It’s possible to evaluate countries’ readiness to lift their lockdowns, based on how well they managed

the first wave of the pandemic, and how ready they are for a digital economy.