Study
Total 56 Posts
How Taiwan beat COVID-19 – New study reveals clues to its success.
5 min read
The full suite of public health measures we have been using fairly consistently across the world like social distancing, face masks, contact tracing, and quarantining led to Taiwan’s COVID victory without ever going into lockdown.
Extremist minds: These psychological traits might help identify people vulnerable to becoming radicalised.
4 min read
We found parallels between how individuals perform in brain games and the kind of political attitudes they adhere to.
We asked 70,000 people how coronavirus affected them – What they told us revealed a lot about inequality in the UK.
12 min read
Since the pandemic began, we have surveyed ordinary people to see how they are coping. People from poorer backgrounds, ethnic minorities and young people are suffering most.
What coronavirus survey told us about getting people to take a vaccine.
4 min read
Vaccination only works if there are high levels of public acceptance of a coronavirus vaccine, if and when it eventually becomes available.
A new study suggests coronavirus antibodies fade over time – But how concerned should we be?
4 min read
Antibody levels naturally fade – the key question is whether infected people sustain adequate levels of T cells and B cells. Right now, we shouldn’t be overly worried. COVID-19 is a giant puzzle we are gradually unlocking.
Can children really stop you catching a bad case of COVID-19?
3 min read
A new study finds a link between having young children at home and a lower risk of catching COVID-19. But there are several important considerations that suggest these findings should be treated with caution.
Blood pressure medications decrease death and severe disease in COVID-19 patients.
3 min read
Although they remain untested as a treatment, this suggests these drugs could be used as a therapeutic against the coronavirus.