Research Publications - COVID-19

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    Circuit breakers the mini lockdown needed for hotspots
    (SABC, 2020) Fielding, Burtram C.
    Circuit breakers form part of five-point plan from the department of health that Premier Alan Winde be presented to the provincial cabinet on Tuesday for adoption. Professor Burtram Fielding, molecular biologist and Director of Research Development at UWC will explain what are circuit breakers and how they could help ease off the rise of infections in hotspots.
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    COVID-19 schools of thought
    (SABC, 2020) Fielding, Burtram C.
    Interview with Prof Bertram C. Fielding.
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    District-based approach won't contain COVID-19 in WC – UWC virologist
    (EYEWITNESS NEWS, 2020) Palm, Kaylynn
    CAPE TOWN - A University of the Western Cape (UWC) virologist believes a district-based approach will not contain the spread of the coronavirus in the Western Cape. Last week, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said government had prepared a district-based plan to its COVID-19 response moving away from a one-size-fits-all method .Director of research development at the university Burtram Fielding said people who ignored social distancing rules were largely to blame for the province's high infection load.
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    Possible biological explanations for kids’ escape from COVID-19
    (The scientist, 2020) King, Anthony
    Since SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, was first recognized as a close cousin of the virus that caused the SARS outbreak of 2003, scientists have looked to the experience of that earlier epidemic to glean insight into the current global health crisis. Kids were largely unaffected in the original SARS outbreak. In Hong Kong, no one under the age of 24 years died, while more than 50 percent of patients over 65 succumbed to the infection. Globally, less than 10 percent of those diagnosed with SARS were children, and only 5 percent of them required intensive care.
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    Spektrum 10 Desember 2020
    (SABC, 2020) Fielding, Burtram C.
    Die Minister van Gesondheid, dr. Zweli Mkhize, sê Suid-Afrika ondervind amptelik sy tweede vlaag van COVID-19-infeksies. Ons het by ‘n kenner gaan hoor wat dit inhou in die onmiddelike stryd teen die virus. Die DA pronk oor sy bydraes in die parlement in 2020, maar wat dink kiesers van die party? Ons praat met 'n ontleder oor gister se tussenverkiesings. Daar is diegene wat meen die nuwe lugredery, Lift, 'n dapper stap doen om in hierdie ekonomiese tye sy toetrede tot die plaaslike lugvaartbedryf te maak. Lugvaartekonoom Joachim Vermooten meen egter dis 'n sinvolle stap.
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    Staying ahead of the bugs
    (FINWEEK, 2020) Fielding, Burtram Clinton
    In a recent interview on his The DnilySlww, Jon Stewart asked astrophysicist Neil dcGrassc Tyson why the universe is trying to kill us, this in reference to the near-miss meteor event a few months ago. The universe - meaning meteors - has always kind of been trying to kill us, responded the always game Tyson; we just haven't noticed it so much before.
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    Tin Roof owner adamant venue not source of Covid-19 ’superspreader event’
    (Independent Online, 2020) Spiller, Sam
    Cape Town - A large number of Covid-19 cases among high school pupils tracked to a bar in Cape Town has raised questions about social gatherings and easing of lockdown. James Truter, owner of the Tin Roof bar in Claremont, was adamant his venue was not the source of a recent superspreader event which resulted in 89 new cases, 37 of which were matric pupils.
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    UWC Prof Burtram Fielding
    (SABC, 2020) Fielding, Burtram C.
    Radio interview with Prof Burtram C. Fielding Radio Sonder Grense (RSG)