COVID-19 infections in the UK today This page updates every day, based on public data and reports from millions of users of the ZOE Health Study app: Day by day evolution of the infection across the UK Current COVID infections (total & new cases per day) ...
Most of the 622 men in this sample were born in Australia (76.8%) or New Zealand (3.3%). Over half lived in NSW (44.4%) or Victoria (24.9%), and over a third (34.9%) lived in postcodes where at least 5% of the adult male population identified as gay [20]. Most had completed ...
Environment Secretary George Eustace was asked about reports of travellers to the UK having to self-isolate for 2 weeks. "As we move to a new phase at some point in the future," he said, "international travel could become a more significant part of the risk to manage. "At the moment, ...
Dr Laura Shallcross, UCL Institute of Health Informatics, said: "Expanding the Vivaldi study will tell us how many people living and working in care homes have been infected with COVID-19, and whether being infected once protects against future infections. This study will help us protect the ...
2020c). Since viral shedding in plasma or serum is common in upper or lower respiratory tract infections, there is a possibility of transmission of coronaviruses through the transfusion of labile blood products (Chang et al. 2020). There is also a possibility that COVID-19 can be passed on...
The research into hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) was led by Dr. Jonathan Read from Lancaster University with colleagues from other UK universities including the Universities of Liverpool, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Imperial College London, and is published inThe Lancettoday, Thursday August 12th. ...
SARS-CoV-2 has caused global waves of infection since December 2019 and continues to persist today. The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with strong immune evasion capabilities has compromised the effectiveness of existing vaccines against breakthrough infections. Therefore, it is important to determin...
but the advice was based on infections and did not consider differences in serious outcomes, where younger people are much less likely to have serious outcomes when infected. Yet, this approach was in contradiction to that of the World Health Organization (WHO) (Miller2021). The WHO specifically...
There were around 5.11 new COVID-19 infections for every 10,000 people per day, equating to around 27,900 new cases per day. Ruth Studley from ONS said these were "the highest levels we have seen since the survey began in May. Like previous weeks, infections continue to be highest in ...
Little is known about how people’s beliefs concerning the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) influence their behavior. To shed light on this, we conduct an online experiment (n=3,610) with US and UK residents. Participants are randomly allocated to a control group or to one of two treat...