Covid-19 round-up June 2020
Latest work and commentary relating to coronavirus
- Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, Ingrid Young, Lukas Engellman, Nayha Sethi, Ellen Stewart, Donna McCormack, Marlee Tichenor and others wrote about the need to consider and engage communities when making policy decisions such as "segmenting and shielding" to tackle the crisis: https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-104/v1
- Giulia De Togni, Nicola Boydell, Sarah Chan, Sonja Erikainen, Andrea Ford, Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, David Lawrence, Catherine Montgomery, Martyn Pickersgill, Rebecca Richards, Nayha Sethi and Julia Swallow wrote about the social and ethical concerns raised by the concept of immunity passports https://discoversociety.org/2020/06/01/imagining-life-with-immunity-passports-managing-risk-during-a-pandemic/
- Ellen Stewart and Kathy Dodworth write about public fundraising for the NHS and discomforts around this https://www.cost-ofliving.net/public-fundraising-for-the-nhs-and-its-discomforts/
- Devi Sridhar wrote about the difficulties in trying to shield the most vulnerable https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/29/shielding-impossible-coronavirus-testing-and-tracing
- Devi Sridhar discussed the re-opening of schools https://www.channel4.com/news/pupil-safety-depends-on-what-part-of-the-country-youre-in-prof-devi-sridhar
