It was at this stage that the public-facing “coronavirus-in-your-area” dashboard was launched, allowing users to type in their postcode to view local case rates. During the first 24 hours after going live, the online service received 120,000 visitors. The NHS Digital team remained hard a...
and living environment)43. Participants were allocated to quintiles of deprivation based on their residential postcode. A valid COVID-19 vaccine dose was defined as a date of vaccination 14 days or more prior to the COVID-19 episode date. The Wild-type strain was dominant in the UK prior ...
The app lets you know anonymously if you have been in close contact with someone who has coronavirus, so you can take the right action to protect the ones you love, and stop further spread of the virus. It shows you the risk level in your local area – based on the postcode district ...
Participants provided the first 4 digits of their postcode to determine the IMD of their local area and the name of their school, this information was used as a proxy for Socioeconomic Position (SEP). As detailed above, only those living in the top 20% most deprived neighbourhood as ...
Enter yourpostcodeforlocal newsandinfo Boris Johnson, pictured on Wednesday (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)(Image: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images) The Prime Minister has crashed the NHS Covid app. The facility went down within minutes of Boris Johnson's speech from Downing Street outl...
This was a prospective cohort study which included any patients aged > 18 whose listed postcode was in one of East Lothian, City of Edinburgh, Midlothian, or West Lothian councils and who were admitted to hospital with a laboratory confirmed, positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test fo...
The frequency of, and risk factors for, long COVID are unclear among community-based individuals with a history of COVID-19. To elucidate the burden and possible causes of long COVID in the community, we coordinated analyses of survey data from 6907 indi
(IMD) rank quintile calculated from patient postcode [12]), ethnicity, whether they were on the waiting list for a transplant on 31 December 2019), and COVID-19 test data (the month of the positive test and the testing pillar (clinical settings (pillar 1) or community settings (pillar 2...
Maternal area-level deprivation was based on postcode of residence and derived according to the standard measure used by the Scottish Government (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation [SIMD]) which ranks areas by deprivation on the basis of seven domains: income, employment, education, health, ...
Socioeconomic deprivation was obtained from postcode of residence using the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation derived from aggregated data on: income, employment, education, health, access to services, crime and housing23. SARS-CoV-2 variants were defined as dominant if they accounted for ≥95...