Friday, November 29, 2024

Tracking the economic impacts of COVID-19 one ship at a time

COVID-19 saw global maritime trade collapse by as much as 10% in the first eight months of 2020 – leading to losses of up to $412 billion, reveals recently published Oxford research...

Online farmers’ markets valuable when crisis events like COVID occur

AI-powered symptom checkers can potentially reduce the number of people going to in-person clinics during the pandemic, but first, researchers say, people need to know they exist.

Cambridge COVID-19 Test Centre has processed more than 3 million tests

The Centre, at the University’s Anne McLaren Building on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, has reached a new milestone following a unique collaboration...

A method to assess Covid-19 transmission risks in indoor settings

MIT researchers have developed a publicly available model based on physics and data from past spreading events.

Risk of rare blood clotting higher for COVID-19 than for vaccines

COVID-19 leads to a several-times higher risk of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) blood clots than current COVID-19 vaccines.

Experts to discuss what a post-Covid world might look like

In the online event ‘Escaping to a post-Covid world’, a group of University experts from clinical and respiratory medicine to public health, as well as education and social work...

Researchers win PM’s Science Prize for protecting NZ from Covid-19

New Zealand’s premier award for transformational science, the Prime Minister’s Science Prize, has been awarded to a collaborative team of academics and researchers...

Typical British cycle infrastructure is failing to protect cyclists, study finds

Typical cycle infrastructure in Britain is not keeping cyclists safe, according to the results from a recently completed study by the University of Westminster and funded by the Road Safety Trust.

New national study of long-term impacts of lung damage from COVID-19

A new national study will investigate the long-term effects of lung inflammation and scarring from COVID-19.

Children learned ‘little or nothing’ during school closures, despite online learning

School closures in the last year have led to serious learning losses, with primary-age school pupils making virtually no progress studying at home...
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