World-leading researchers from the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator Collaborative consider how we should evaluate decisions made during the covid-19 pandemic and the future response to pandemic threats.
COVID-19 research
Messaging focusing on personal rather than collective benefits is more effective for COVID vaccination
Children and Adolescents’ Mental Health: a year of lockdowns
Parents and carers reported that behavioural, emotional and attentional difficulties in their children changed considerably throughout the past year, increasing in times of national lockdown and decreasing as restrictions eased and schools reopened, according to the latest Co-SPACE (COVID-19 Supporting Parents, Adolescents, and Children in Epidemics) study, led by experts at the University of Oxford and supported by Oxford Health BRC.
Risk of rare blood clotting higher for COVID-19 than for vaccines
COVID-19 survivors at risk of neurological and psychiatric disorders
Seven in ten patients hospitalised with COVID-19 not fully recovered five months after discharge
A majority of survivors who left hospital following COVID-19 had not fully recovered five months after discharge and continued to experience negative impacts on their physical and mental health, as well as their ability to work, according to results released by a major national study into the longer-term effect of the COVID-19.