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Health and Healthcare Systems
Why are people stockpiling toilet paper? Four experts give their opinions
In many economies, people have responsed to the Coronavirus outbreak by stockpiling supplies - including toilet paper.
Michael is a prize-winning science journalist. Before joining The Conversation he was an editor at The Monthly and Cosmos magazines and worked in communications for the Tongan ministry of agriculture and the Melbourne-based agency Science in Public.