Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering helping high school students succeed during the pandemic
The University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering is offering free tutoring to high school students across Ontario to help them succeed with remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bristol report calls for action to tackle the digital divide as research during COVID-19...
Digital inequality in the city could severely impact life chances, according to new research published today by the University of Bristol’s Bristol Digital Futures Institute (BDFI) and Knowle West Media Centre.
Booster vaccination strongly enhances COVID-19 immunity in care home residents and staff – study
A COVID-19 booster vaccination markedly increases immune response in residents and staff within care homes, making it vital that people living and working in these settings get their third ‘jab’, a new study reveals.
HKUST Researchers Devise Age-Based Eligibility Method to Measure Vaccine Effectiveness in Data-Deficient Scenarios
A research team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has demonstrated how to measure vaccine effectiveness (VE) in the absence of adequate public health data...
New research reveals Covid lessons for employers to better support working parents
Research published today by Queen Mary University of London details how flexible working lessons from the pandemic can foster more family-friendly work practices.
Expert Comment: Mental Health Issues Rise Due to COVID-19 ‘Almost Inevitable’
People in the UK are living in highly uncertain times. Along with the uncertainty surrounding our future relationship with the EU, and the increasing evidence of global climate change
Debate: Experts Responsibility in Media Coverage of the Coronavirus
How critical should journalists be? Can the relationship between expert and journalist become too close? Should the expert always participate?
Return to school sees improvement in children’s mental health
Mental health difficulties in children increased during the first national lockdown (between March and June 2020), but have decreased since.
Forecasting the next COVID-19
Princeton disease ecologist C. Jessica Metcalf and Harvard physician and epidemiologist Michael Mina say that predicting disease could become as commonplace as predicting the weather.
3Q: Looking back at MIT’s fall semester Covid-19 testing
Suzanne Blake of MIT Emergency Management analyzes the results from the program, which administered more than 250,000 tests last semester.
