Category: COVID-19
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What I learned from doing research during the pandemic
Public inquiries into COVID-19 policy making can tell us a lot about how robust our society’s plumbing is and whether evidence-based policy making is a lived practice – let’s not waste that opportunity
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Thiemo Fetzer’s submission to the Public COVID-19 Inquiry.
Tell us about your experiences (Required). This can be a past experience, something that’s still happening, or both. I carried out research during the pandemic starting right from February 2020, studying the policy response to the pandemic. I felt a call to service. The governments own stated ambition to following the science requires creation of…
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Subsidizing the spread of COVID-19 evidence from the UK’s eat-out-to-help-out scheme
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.
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Pandemic Pressures and Public Health Care: Evidence from England
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.
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Measuring the Epidemiological Impact of a False Negative: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
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.
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Global Behaviors, Perceptions, and the Emergence of Social Norms at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
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Measuring the Scientific Effectiveness of Contact Tracing: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
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.
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Coronavirus Perceptions And Economic Anxiety
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…