COVID hospitalisations & variants
Hospital rates falling across Europe Across Europe, the latest data from ECDC (link) and Gov.UK (link) shows that hospitalisation rates...
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Our journey with COVID-19
Dan Ryan
- Apr 24, 2021
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Impact of COVID on risk perception
Our battle with probability We struggle with probabilities. Casinos and bookies take advantage of our weakness, while insurers protect us...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 23, 2021
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Masking the future
Relaxing in a vaccinated world Last week the media was awash with reports that the success of the vaccination programme in the UK may...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 19, 2021
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Risk of infection from air travel
The prospect of international travel is looming for UK nationals from 17 May, under a proposed traffic light system that determines what...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 18, 2021
- 2 min
Uncovering the evidence for behavioural fatigue
At the start of the pandemic, public health officials and policy makers were concerned about “behavioural fatigue” or the concept that...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 18, 2021
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Behavioural nudges and vaccinations
On 25 March, President Biden set a revised target of 200 million vaccines administered within the first 100 days of presidency (more). As...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 17, 2021
- 1 min
Patterns of hospitalisation across Europe
The Gov.UK Coronavirus (COVID-19) dashboard (more) provides a daily update on numbers of tests, confirmed cases, hospitalisations and...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 16, 2021
- 2 min
Patient access to electronic health records
As of April 5, the 21st Century Cures Act prevents electronic health record (eHR) providers from blocking information in the USA (more)....
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 15, 2021
- 2 min
Impact of COVID on future research
Whilst the pandemic has thrust science into the centre stage, not all researchers have benefitted equally from the increased attention....
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
The view from the virus
Third wave hits Europe Just as the UK takes tentative steps back from the lockdown that started at the beginning of the year, others in...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
Behaviours during pandemic
Tribal attitudes to COVID19 restrictions A study of 20K adults into compliance with different NPI (non-pharmaceutical interventions) at...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 2 min
Vaccination programme
Repercussions of limited capacity Just over 500 million vaccines have now been administered. Big Pharma has estimated that between 9.5...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
New restrictions across Europe
Contrasting patterns across Europe as the UK re-introduces the "Rule of 6" outdoors, whilst France announces a third national lockdown...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
Variants and selective pressures
The emergence of three different 501Y variants in 3 different continents may reflect intense selective pressures towards immunity evasion...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
Sleep and mental health
The COVID-19 Social Study has been tracking changes in the quality of sleep since the start of the pandemic, led by Dr. Elise Paul at...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
COVID and health-seeking behaviours
Activity data from NHS Digital for January 2021 in Figure 2.2 illustrates how the number of elective procedures fell as demand from COVID...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
Rapid increase in level of seropositivity
The most recent data released from the Coronavrius (COVID-19) Infection Survey up to 14 March (based on blood samples taken from home...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 2 min
Yellow Cards - putting risks into perspective
For the last two months, the MHRA has been producing a weekly summary of Yellow Cards linked to COVID-19 vaccines - the early warning...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 2 min
Cancer & COVID-19
mRNA driving future cancer therapeutcs Thanks to Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, discussion of mRNA vaccines became mainstream in 2020. ...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 2 min
Widespread use of lateral flow tests in UK
As of 9 April, everyone in the UK will be able to take a free rapid coronavirus test twice a week (more). This is the next wave in the...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 11, 2021
- 1 min
Impact of vaccines on mortality
Public Health England has been producing a series of monthly publications that estimate the number of deaths that have been prevented by...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 10, 2021
- 2 min
Gender differences in attitudes to vaccination
A study by Galasso et al. of vaccination patterns in 10 different countries has identified “a gender paradox” (more). Prior surveys in...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 9, 2021
- 2 min
COVID-19 and Long-Term Care
The tireless work of the International Long Term Care Policy Network (more) has been pivotal to our better understanding of the impact of...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 8, 2021
- 2 min
Herd Immunity in the UK
In the early phases of the pandemic, it was estimated that more than 70% of the population would need to have been infected to achieve...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 7, 2021
- 1 min
Partnership between BREATHE and Savana
BREATHE is the UK Health Research Rub for Respiratory Health, one of 7 research hubs developed through HDR UK. BREATHE aims to improve...
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Dan Ryan
- Jan 21, 2021
- 2 min
Looking back 11 years, not 130.
Today, headlines proclaimed that we have not seen excess mortality in peacetime in Scotland of the scale we witnessed last year since the...
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Dan Ryan
- Jan 19, 2021
- 2 min
Tracking The Tribes of America
Yesterday, we highlighted differences in the experience of COVID-19 on either side of the Atlantic. As promised, today we focus on...
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Dan Ryan
- Jan 18, 2021
- 2 min
Two countries divided by a "common" virus
The roll-out of vaccination is accelerating apace. In the UK, the BBC reports that those aged 70 and over and those listed as clinically...
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Dan Ryan
- Dec 29, 2020
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A patchwork quilt across the pond, thanks to COVID-19.
Yesterday, I shared analysis that illustrated how excess deaths in the 2nd wave are dramatically lower (so far) in different regions of...
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Dan Ryan
- Dec 28, 2020
- 1 min
Different experiences of the COVID-19 winter
Viewed across the UK, excess deaths in 2nd wave (Sep-now) have been 28% for men and 18% for women of the 1st wave (Mar-Jun). Across the...
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