Our journey with COVID-19

COVID hospitalisations & variants

Hospital rates falling across Europe Across Europe, the latest data from ECDC (link) and Gov.UK (link) shows that hospitalisation rates...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...