Control and mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic in England has relied on a combination of vaccination and non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). Some of these NPIs are extremely costly (economically and socially), so it was important to relax these promptly without overwhelming already burdened ...
Hospital admission rates for COVID-19 have increased in all regions except for the north east of England but this region also has the highest rate of 23.44, said the PHE. More than 2,100 COVID-19 patients were admitted to London hospitals in a week and cases soared by nearly 56,000, ...
select article Re: Letter to the editor of Public Health in response to ‘Non-COVID-19 visits to emergency departments during the pandemic: the impact of fear’ CorrespondenceFull text access Re: Letter to the editor of Public Health in response to ‘Non-COVID-19 visits to emergency departme...
a field that increasingly centres around collecting, sharing and analysing personal data. However, the use of big data in biomedicine poses specific challenges related to gaining public support for health data usage in research and clinical settings. The improvement of ...
This case-control study estimates the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against symptomatic infections due to the Delta and Omicron variants and severe
Country experiences of responding to the challenges of COVID-19 in 2020 highlighted how critical it is to have strong, in-country health security capacity. The UK government has invested in health security capacity development through various projects and agencies, including the UK Department of Hea...
Table 2. Self-reported Mental and Physical Health in Grade 11 Student Cohorts From Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic View LargeDownload Table 3. Self-reported Mental and Physical Health in Grade 11 Student Cohorts From Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across Reported Pande...
Untangling the association between COVID-19 health literacy, trust in the pandemic response, and mental distress, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland: a repeated cross-sectional study Julie Arnott, Maria Isabela Troya, Mary Joyce, Ali Khashan, ... Ivan Perry ...
COVID-19 infection had to be non-missing and had to be no earlier than 27 April 2020 and at least 5 weeks prior to completion of the specific questions on long COVID. 27 April 2020 was chosen as we were interested in health behaviours in the month prior to COVID-19 infection, and...
"We're forging a path out of this predicament," he said, urging the public to continue to follow social distancing guidance. Joining Sharma for the press briefing, Professor Stephen Powis, the national medical director of NHS (National Health Service) England, said, "More infections means more...