New book examines pandemic decision-making and responses
Professor Ananish Chaudhuri explores Covid-19 policy decisions, their implications, and cognitive biases in pandemic decision-making in his new book.
Key to fighting chronic inflammation in severe COVID
A treatment to prevent runaway inflammation in patients with severe COVID-19 is a step closer after a University of Queensland-led study into how immune cells respond to the virus.
Hearing deterioration reported by discharged COVID-19 patients
A significant number of patients reported a deterioration in their hearing when questioned eight weeks after discharge from a hospital admission for COVID-19.
Archaeology uncovers infectious disease spread – 4000 years ago
New bioarchaeology research from a University of Otago PhD candidate has shown how infectious diseases may have spread 4000 years ago
Higher-educated and obese people eat less healthy during lockdown
Most Dutch people did not change their diets during the first Covid-19 lockdown, but more overweight and obese people said they ate less healthily...
Climate change: threshold for dangerous warming will likely be crossed between 2027-2042
The threshold for dangerous global warming will likely be crossed between 2027 and 2042 – a much narrower window than the Intergovernmental Panel...
More than 900,000 UK small businesses ‘at risk’ of failing by early April
A major wave of bankruptcies for UK firms looms as many current business support programmes expire at the end of March and April, according to research published...
Researchers Partner with Pasadena Public Health on COVID-19 Study
One of the more vexing qualities of the COVID-19 virus is that a person infected with it can be contagious for days before they begin to show symptoms. Because of this...
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.
Vaccination reduces the risk of severe COVID-19 infection
However, adults who are frail, living in areas of high deprivation or have unhealthy lifestyles are more at risk of COVID-19 infection and getting ill, despite being vaccinated, compared to other vaccinated people.
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