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Most people believe the government was wrong to stop publishing international comparisons of COVID-19 death tolls.
What kind of job you have has never been more important for your life chances.
R is still useful for public health, but it should not be the only metric we use to understand virus transmission.
There is a sad precedent of pandemic disease threatening the residents of care institutions – and of authorities not heeding the dangers.
A new review assesses the potential long-term psychological impact of COVID-19.
The World Bank is giving $160 billion to help bolster the world’s weaker health systems – but it needs to do more.
There is abundant evidence that a sudden loss of smell is related to COVID-19.
National models on the spread of COVID-19 have helped us through this crisis. But we’ll need local models to get us through the next stage.
Why did a fit, healthy man have so many blood clots in rapid succession, despite blood-thinning treatment?
Confusion abounds over what people are allowed to do now, which is the one thing you don’t want in a public information campaign.
The equation ‘COVID alert level = R (rate of infection) + number of infections’ simply does not add up to a number between one and five.
Will people keep social distancing now that the lock down is eased? Our research shows that what matters is people’s own motivation, not the threat of fines.
The UK is investing heavily in preparation for mass manufacturing of a working COVID-19 vaccine.
COVID-19 is much more than just a medical emergency.
We don’t have vaccines for the Sars, Mers or the common cold. But that doesn’t mean scientists won’t crack it this time.
The UK government is allowing care homes and hospices to reuse leftover medicines during the pandemic. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
A molecule responsible for lowering our blood pressure also helps coronavirus get into our cells and replicate. And it occurs more in men than in women.
A century old therapy is being tested on patients with COVID-19.
Used PPE needs to be incinerated for safety reasons, but once this pandemic is over we should consider more sustainable options.
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Lecturer in Psychology, Swansea University
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Professor in Biomedical Sciences, University of Manchester
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Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde
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Associate Professor in Viral Immunology, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
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Scientific Officer, University of Leeds
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Principal Lecturer, Microbiology and Biomedical Science Practice, Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science, University of Brighton
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Clinical Research Fellow in Viral Immunology and Veterinary Surgeon, University of Cambridge
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Assistant Professor in Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
