Figure 1: Screenshot of the GOV.UK Coronavirus dashboard’s daily update page taken in December 2021, depicting vaccinations, cases, deaths, hospitalizations, and number of tests. This real-time analytics dashboard uses open source software available on GitHub and built...
The SIREN study is a prospective cohort study among staff (aged ≥18 years) working in publicly-funded hospitals in the UK. Participants were assigned into either the positive cohort (antibody positive or history of infection [indicated by previous positivity of antibody or PCR tests]) or the ...
UK longitudinal study (LS) samples and 1.1 million individuals with COVID-19 diagnostic codes in electronic healthcare records (EHR) collected by spring 2021. Proportions of presumed COVID-19 cases in LS reporting any symptoms for 12+ weeks ranged from 7.8% and 17% (with 1.2 to 4.8% ...
The results of this study are in contrast with reports of increased cases of Angiostrongylus vasorum lungworm after COVID-19 restrictions began in the UK, which was considered to be a result of a reduction in routine worming treatments [72]. A UK-based survey reported that people who...
the data produced by these interactions was crucial in helping public health organizations and the government understand the symptoms of COVID-19. They could also use data to visualise how it was spreading across the UK, in order to identify potential hotspots to prepare the public health services...
In such cases, collective learning occurred through idiographic (case-based) reasoning , in which practitioners build lessons from the particular to the general. This contrasts with the nomothetic reasoning implicit in evidence-based guidelines, in which reasoning is assumed to go from the general (...
We observed a time-shift between the decrease in the number of positive cases and the decrease in the number of clusters. This delay could be explained by the fact that most positive cases might have been at the origin of lasting clusters, i.e. clusters that last longer than 10 days ...
May 2020 (the date of latest data availability for this study), cases had reached over 3.5 million globally, with more than 240,000 deaths attributed to the virus1. On the same day in the UK, there had been 206,715 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and 30,615 COVID-19-related deaths3....
The first confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the UK occurred on 30 Janu- ary 2020, and as of 19 July 2023 there has been a total of 22,241,790 confirmed cases and 228,492 deaths related to the infection [2]. Clinically, SARS-CoV-2 causes the ill- ness known as COVID-19...
(OAs) – a tiny local area used in the creation of UK Census estimates. Like with everything, these were first used in Scotland back in 1981 – only being used in England, Wales, Northern Ireland for the 2001 Census. OAs themselves are built from postcode areas, but unlike postcode ...