COVID-19

There’s Something in the Air, Part 2 – But It’s Not a Miasma
Insights
April 15, 2024

There’s Something in the Air, Part 2 – But It’s Not a Miasma

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­Resilience in the Face of Adversity: Frontline Employees as ‘Heroes’
Business and Management INK
July 10, 2023

­Resilience in the Face of Adversity: Frontline Employees as ‘Heroes’

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Partnering for Impact: Collaborative Design and Co-Creation
Business and Management INK
June 14, 2023

Partnering for Impact: Collaborative Design and Co-Creation

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Face Mask Evangelism, Trust and Democracy
Science & Social Science
April 17, 2023

Face Mask Evangelism, Trust and Democracy

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Face Masks and COVID – A Failed Technology

Face Masks and COVID – A Failed Technology

A model is only as good as its underlying simplifying assumptions and data, notes Robert Dingwall, and in the case of testing the effectiveness of face masks to combat the spread of COVID those data are, he argues, at best fragile.

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Orientalism and the Advocacy of Face Masks

Orientalism and the Advocacy of Face Masks

A concern for Orientalist thinking should lead us to ask what British and American elites are doing with their representation of this imagined “Asia.”

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The Covid Pandemic in France: A Review

The Covid Pandemic in France: A Review

Henri Bergeron et al. Covid-19: Une Crise Organisationelle Sciences Po: Les Presses, 2020. 9782724626650Jean-Paul Gaudillière et al Pandémopolitiqiue La Découverte, 2021. 9782348066153 […]

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Masks and COVID: The Mystery of the Missing RCTs

Masks and COVID: The Mystery of the Missing RCTs

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have historically been regarded as the gold standard for evaluating medical interventions. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) developed during the […]

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Mercury Project Names First Cohort to Fight Health Misinformation and Increase Vaccine Uptake

Mercury Project Names First Cohort to Fight Health Misinformation and Increase Vaccine Uptake

Through the SSRC’s Mercury Project, a first cohort of 12 teams from 17 countries is tasked with researching locally tailored solutions on how bad health information spreads, how to combat it, how to build stronger information systems, and how to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates.

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King Canute and the Cult of Zero Infection

King Canute and the Cult of Zero Infection

The humility of King Canute in the face of nature is worth recalling as a check on the enthusiasm for zero-infection. It is a fine-sounding slogan but do we really want to live in a society where everything else is sacrificed to this goal?

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Pandemic Management – The Path Not Taken

Pandemic Management – The Path Not Taken

New data from the WHO show that during the pandemic’s first two years, Sweden had half the excess death rate of the UK, Germany or Spain – and a quarter of the excess death rate of many countries in Eastern Europe.

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Not Rewriting the History of the Pandemic

Not Rewriting the History of the Pandemic

As we pass two years from the beginnings of the pandemic, many commentators are scrambling to distance themselves from their initial responses, […]

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