COVID-19 increases support for a Universal Basic Income, virus detection in wastewater project underway and student creates food parcels for key workers – 3rd July
Children miss routine vaccinations, how emojis could encourage hygiene measures and summer art workshops for young people – 30th June
Benefits claims during COVID-19, abuse of shopworkers doubles during lockdown and be careful when cuddling your pet – 29th June
Lockdown photography book raises money for NHS, universities plan the return to campus and research into effective management of COVID-19 – 18th June
COVID-19 hits the north of England harder than the south, BAME groups at higher risk and the positive environmental impacts of lockdown – 29th May
How a BBC experiment is being used to offer insight into COVID-19 tracking – UEA
Data from a BBC citizen science experiment has helped predict how different strategies could control the spread of Covid-19 – according to new preliminary research from the University of East Anglia, Oxford University and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic was a massive citizen science experiment that collected […]
Exploring COVID-19’s impact on smell and taste, a pandemic simulator, and student mental health – 21st May
How the pandemic is changing technology use, dogs in COVID-19 detection and manufacturing more PPE – 18th May
Dogs could be used to detect COVID-19 – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
The UK Government has awarded a specialist team of researchers more than £500,000 to find out if specially-trained bio-detection dogs could be used as a new rapid, non-invasive testing measure for COVID-19. In the first phase of the trial, world-leading disease control experts from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), in collaboration […]