Category: COVID-19 Research

The government initiative, which cost around £500 million, caused a significant rise in new infections in August and early September accelerating the pandemic into its current second wave.

Delays to cancer referrals and treatment times have led to an estimated 32,000 missing cancer patients that should have already started receiving treatment. Meanwhile, pandemic pressures have adversely affected the quality of care received by non-Covid patients resulting in at least 4,000 additional deaths that could otherwise have been avoided in England.

Reliable COVID-19 testing remains a central pillar to manage the pandemic. Yet, the accuracy and reliability of tests and test equipment has regularly been brought into question. Both false-positive and false-negative test results convey costs.

We conducted a large-scale survey covering 58 countries and over 100,000 respondents between late March and early April 2020 to study beliefs and attitudes towards citizens’ and governments’ responses at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

NHS Test and Trace works, new research finds, but the data glitch which led to over 15,000 late referrals in October may have brought about more than 125,000 additional COVID-19 infections and over 1500 deaths.

A study of Google search activity and a survey explores how the coronavirus has led to an increase in economic anxieties. Historical data shows that increases in search activity around topics like recession are associated with sharp contractions in growth rates. The rapid and global spread of the new coronavirus within just a few weeks…