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'Cabin fever': Australia must prepare for the social and psychological impacts of a coronavirus lockdown

  • Written by Jennifer Boddy, Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School (Learning and Teaching), Griffith University

As the COVID-19 outbreak intensifies, we’re seeing mass isolation in virus epicentres, with about 500 million people in China “under varying degrees of quarantine”, and all of Italy in lockdown.

In Australia, self-isolation is being advised for those who have been in close contact with a confirmed coronavirus case, or have...

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