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After evolving a digital heart (not the pacemaker kind) out of inky veins, Jamie just wants an excuse to learn something new. But he’s fully aware his 32 years’ experience in the news industry has given him just enough knowledge to be dangerous. International affairs. History. Defence. Science. Space. Technology. He has a fascination for them all – particularly when it comes to social fallout. Translating tough concepts into common terms is his craft. His passion is to explore the big picture encompassing world events.

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TOPSHOT - A medical worker makes a phone call during her break outside a special COVID-19 illness area at Maimonides Medical Center on May 17, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP)

State where lockdowns aren’t working

Leaders in this US state locked down and locked down hard – but virus numbers still stubbornly continue to rise. So what went wrong?

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Demonstrators protest in Lansing, Michigan, during a rally organized by Michigan United for Liberty on May 14, 2020, to protest the coronavirus pandemic stay-at-home orders. - Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said on May 13 that protests against the state's emergency orders might make it necessary for the state to keep restrictions in place longer. The orders have been extended until May 28. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP)

US protesters caught spreading virus

Phone data shows they travelled for hours to fight for their freedom – but when they returned home, they took COVID-19 with them.

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Health Problems

FILE - In this April 20, 2020, file photo, a medic moves a gurney at Queens Hospital Center in the Jamaica neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York. The stated mission of The Greater New York Hospital Association is simple enough: to help members deliver â€œthe finest patient care in the most cost-effective way.â€ But itâ€™s more complicated than that. While the association, which represents health care providers at the epicenter of the pandemic, is a nonprofit organization, it has the balance sheet of a robust private company, pays executive salaries that top $3 million and spent millions more to lobby in Washington for some of the nation's most profitable hospitals. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Man gives 52 people virus in 2.5 hours

When he turned up to choir practice, he had no symptoms. Just 2.5 hours later, 52 of the 61 singing group members were infected with coronavirus.

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(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on May 14, 2020 shows recent portraits of China's President Xi Jinping (L) and US President Donald Trump. - US President Donald Trump said on May 14, 2020, he is no mood to speak with China's Xi Jinping, warning darkly he might cut off ties with the rival superpower over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

‘Sinister’ China challenge US can’t fight

China’s navy has just completed a mission that has left US officials terrified – and it has serious implications for Australia’s security.

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Wooden cross on a simple steeple set against a sunny summer blue sky.

‘Extreme’ conspiracy killing US ‘faithful’

Across America, preachers have proclaimed God will protect them from COVID-19 – now dozens are dead, and their flocks are dying too.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting focused on the support to the aviation industry and the air transportation at his country residence in Novo-Ogaryovo outside Moscow, on May 13, 2020. - The aviation sector has been particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 outbreak, (the novel coronavirus). (Photo by Alexey NIKOLSKY / SPUTNIK / AFP)

Russia’s virus ‘win’ hides damning truth

Vladimir Putin’s false boasts about COVID-19 hide the truth. He is panicking, doctors are falling out of windows and the virus is out of control.

Global Coronavirus

TOPSHOT - In this picture taken on April 29, 2020, an engineer looks at monkey kidney cells as he make a test on an experimental vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus inside the Cells Culture Room laboratory at the Sinovac Biotech facilities in Beijing. - Sinovac Biotech, which is conducting one of the four clinical trials that have been authorised in China, has claimed great progress in its research and promising results among monkeys. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP) / TO GO WITH Health-virus-China-vaccine,FOCUS by Patrick Baert

Data leak exposes China’s virus cover-up

A “treasure trove” of raw data said to be from 230 different Chinese cities has been leaked – and it tells a very damning story.

Global Coronavirus

TOPSHOT - A medical staffer wearing full PPE (personal protective equipment) performs a sterilisation at the entrance of an isolated section for COVID-19 coronavirus disease treatment at a hotel in the sports city of Iraq's southern city of Basra on May 11, 2020. (Photo by Hussein FALEH / AFP)

Cities struck down as lockdowns lift

China. South Korea. Germany. They’d all beaten the virus into a corner – but now it’s back and so are tough new restriction measures.

Health officials wearing protective gear check their goggles after spraying disinfectant as a precaution against the new coronavirus ahead of school reopening in a class at a high school in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

‘Superspreader’ sparks second wave fears

This country was celebrating the end of lockdown but just days after reopening, it took just one unwitting party animal to wreck it all.

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Health Problems

The wind catches the protective gown of a first responder as she gets ready to transport a patient to the emergency department of the Verdun Hospital, Thursday, April 23, 2020 in Montreal. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP)

Reason we need a COVID-19 Plan C

While billions suffer under blunt lockdown measures to quash the spread of the virus, much of the world’s bet is on a vaccine. But what if it doesn’t come?

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