
Dan Ryan
- Apr 24, 2021
- 2 min
COVID hospitalisations & variants
Hospital rates falling across Europe Across Europe, the latest data from ECDC (link) and Gov.UK (link) shows that hospitalisation rates...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 24, 2021
- 2 min
Impact of COVID on risk perception
Our battle with probability We struggle with probabilities. Casinos and bookies take advantage of our weakness, while insurers protect us...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 23, 2021
- 3 min
Masking the future
Relaxing in a vaccinated world Last week the media was awash with reports that the success of the vaccination programme in the UK may...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 18, 2021
- 2 min
Risk of infection from air travel
The prospect of international travel is looming for UK nationals from 17 May, under a proposed traffic light system that determines what...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 17, 2021
- 2 min
Uncovering the evidence for behavioural fatigue
At the start of the pandemic, public health officials and policy makers were concerned about “behavioural fatigue” or the concept that...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 17, 2021
- 2 min
Behavioural nudges and vaccinations
On 25 March, President Biden set a revised target of 200 million vaccines administered within the first 100 days of presidency (more). As...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 16, 2021
- 1 min
Patterns of hospitalisation across Europe
The Gov.UK Coronavirus (COVID-19) dashboard (more) provides a daily update on numbers of tests, confirmed cases, hospitalisations and...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 15, 2021
- 2 min
Patient access to electronic health records
As of April 5, the 21st Century Cures Act prevents electronic health record (eHR) providers from blocking information in the USA (more)....
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 14, 2021
- 2 min
Impact of COVID on future research
Whilst the pandemic has thrust science into the centre stage, not all researchers have benefitted equally from the increased attention....
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
The view from the virus
Third wave hits Europe Just as the UK takes tentative steps back from the lockdown that started at the beginning of the year, others in...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
Behaviours during pandemic
Tribal attitudes to COVID19 restrictions A study of 20K adults into compliance with different NPI (non-pharmaceutical interventions) at...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 2 min
Vaccination programme
Repercussions of limited capacity Just over 500 million vaccines have now been administered. Big Pharma has estimated that between 9.5...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
New restrictions across Europe
Contrasting patterns across Europe as the UK re-introduces the "Rule of 6" outdoors, whilst France announces a third national lockdown...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
Variants and selective pressures
The emergence of three different 501Y variants in 3 different continents may reflect intense selective pressures towards immunity evasion...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
Sleep and mental health
The COVID-19 Social Study has been tracking changes in the quality of sleep since the start of the pandemic, led by Dr. Elise Paul at...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
COVID and health-seeking behaviours
Activity data from NHS Digital for January 2021 in Figure 2.2 illustrates how the number of elective procedures fell as demand from COVID...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
Rapid increase in level of seropositivity
The most recent data released from the Coronavrius (COVID-19) Infection Survey up to 14 March (based on blood samples taken from home...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 2 min
Yellow Cards - putting risks into perspective
For the last two months, the MHRA has been producing a weekly summary of Yellow Cards linked to COVID-19 vaccines - the early warning...
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Dan Ryan
- Apr 12, 2021
- 2 min
Cancer & COVID-19
mRNA driving future cancer therapeutcs Thanks to Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, discussion of mRNA vaccines became mainstream in 2020. ...
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