COVID hospitalisations & variants
Hospital rates falling across Europe Across Europe, the latest data from ECDC (link) and Gov.UK (link) shows that hospitalisation rates...
Our journey with COVID-19
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...