COVID-19's impact on Australia's health research workforce

Managing News Overload (MNO): The COVID-19 Infodemic

Dishonesty during a pandemic: The concealment of COVID-19 information

A Guide to Self-Archiving Preprints

I Don’t Want to Go Back: Examining the Return to Physical Workspaces During COVID-19

Dimensions of Altruism: Do Evaluations of Prosocial Behavior Track Social Good or Personal Sacrifice?

Face-touching as a possible correlate of mask-wearing: A video observational study of public place behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

How meaningful are parameter estimates from models of inter-temporal choice?

What is a coalition? A systematic review of coalitions in community psychology

With a Little Help From My Friends: Selective Social Potentiation of Emotion Regulation

The Fallacy of Manipulation "Checks" in Psychological Experiments

Manipulations and Spins in Attention Disorders Research: The Case of ADHD and COVID-19

The Political Impact of Affective Polarization: How Partisan Animus Shapes COVID-19 Attitudes

Protocol CHARIS study

No Effect of Partisan Worldview on Corrections of Political Misinformation

Ideological responses to the breaking of COVID-19 social distancing recommendations

Believers Use Science and Religion, Non-Believers Use Science Religiously

The Attitudes of Medical Students for Their Roles and Social Accountability in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era

Coronavirus: Missing school is worse than virus for children - Whitty

Masks, no assembly and no choir: the science behind reopening schools safely

Statement from the UK Chief Medical Officers on schools and childcare reopening

Eurozone industry fears rebound from virus crash will be shortlived

Keep an eye out for lead-time bias with COVID-19 deaths

Weighing the Benefits and Risks of Proliferating Observational Treatment Assessments: Observational Cacophony, Randomized Harmony

Transmission heterogeneities, kinetics, and controllability of SARS-CoV-2

Rapid cost-effective viral genome sequencing by V-seq

Functional SARS-CoV-2-specific immune memory persists after mild COVID-19

Membrane Nanoparticles Derived from ACE2-rich Cells Block SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Inhibition of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 main protease by tafenoquine in vitro

A SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody protects from lung pathology in a COVID-19 hamster model

Elicitation of potent neutralizing antibody responses by designed protein nanoparticle vaccines for SARS-CoV-2

Neutralizing antibodies correlate with protection from SARS-CoV-2 in humans during a fishery vessel outbreak with high attack rate

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COVID-19–Associated Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children — United States, March–July 2020

Association Between Youth Smoking, Electronic Cigarette Use, and Coronavirus Disease 2019

What if ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Closer Than Scientists Thought?

Can Air Conditioners Spread COVID-19?

Fearing a ‘Twindemic,’ Health Experts Push Urgently for Flu Shots

After Hydroxychloroquine, Trump Is Now Seeking To Get Another Unproven Drug Approved By The FDA: Report

Engineered ACE2 receptor traps potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2

Effect of moist heat reprocessing of N95 respirators on SARS-CoV-2 inactivation and respirator function

SARS-CoV-2 detection in different respiratory sites: A systematic review and meta-analysis

COVID-19 Patients Form Memory CD8+ T Cells that Recognize a Small Set of Shared Immunodominant Epitopes in SARS-CoV-2

Progenitor identification and SARS-CoV-2 infection in long-term human distal lung organoid cultures

A Newcastle disease virus (NDV) expressing membrane-anchored spike as a cost-effective inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine

SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV viral load dynamics, duration of viral shedding and infectiousness: a living systematic review and meta-analysis

Temperature, Humidity and Latitude Analysis to Predict Potential Spread and Seasonality for COVID-19

Effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 disease: A done and dusted deal?

Aboard the Diamond Princess, a Case Study in Aerosol Transmission

Coronavirus update: Sun Belt surge fans recovery fears; Trump ally Herman Cain dies

Online Harms & Disinformation Post-COVID

Communicating statistics, risks and uncertainty in the age of COVID19

Finding facts during a crisis / Stand with the Facts / KUOW / CIP

COVIDConversations: Protecting Children/Adolescents’ Mental Health with Professors Stein & Blakemore

Ventilator Allocation for Covid-19, Mask Sterilization, HIV Life Expectancy, and more #JNOLive

Working Moms Bear Brunt of Home Schooling While Working During COVID-19

California severely short on firefighting crews after COVID-19 lockdown at prison camps

Universal Masking to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Transmission—The Time Is Now

Surge in Child Abuse, Harm During COVID-19 Pandemic Reported

Challenges Estimating Total Lives Lost in COVID-19 Decisions

The DHODH Inhibitor PTC299 Arrests SARS-CoV-2 Replication and Suppresses Induction of Inflammatory Cytokines

Acute Kidney Injury Is Associated With In-hospital Mortality in Older Patients With COVID-19

Structural analysis of full-length SARS-CoV-2 spike protein from an advanced vaccine candidate

SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine design enabled by prototype pathogen preparedness

SalivaDirect: Simple and sensitive molecular diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2 surveillance

Persistent bacterial coinfection of a COVID-19 patient caused by a genetically adapted Pseudomonas aeruginosa chronic colonizer

Viable SARS-CoV-2 in the air of a hospital room with COVID-19 patients

Age-Related Differences in Nasopharyngeal Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Levels in Patients With Mild to Moderate Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

The potential public health consequences of COVID-19 on malaria in Africa

Scientists find five blood molecules linked to severe Covid-19 outcome in patients

Children Can Get Severe COVID-19, CDC Says — Especially Black And Hispanic Children

Agglomeration in a Time of Coronavirus: Will Working-From-Home Close the Mega City / Outland Divide?

The Digital Divide in Online Education. Inequality in Digital Preparedness of Students and Schools before the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Special Focus with Zahid Jadwat - Understanding the dangers of misinformation - 23rd June 2020

How we accelerated clinical trials in the age of coronavirus

Relationship Functioning During COVID-19 Quarantine

Parenting and child and adolescent mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Cost of Correcting Bad Science

What Can America Learn from Europe About Regulating Big Tech?

The perils of preprints

Interdependence and the cost of uncoordinated responses to COVID-19

Open Scholarship Knowledge Base

Erik, as people inside and outside Sweden continue to grapple with what exactly the Swedish strategy might have been, there are two aspects that have seemed potentially troubling to me (and only more so in light of the FOI email releases):

COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and adolescents

Mapping the Scholarship of Fake News Research: A Systematic Review

Using the COVID-19 to influenza ratio to estimate early pandemic spread in Wuhan, China and Seattle, US

How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon

A tents situation – UK staycation boom fuels run on camping toilets

End of UK furlough scheme ‘means needless loss of 2m jobs’

5/ Visionary, truth-telling epidemiologists like @HealthEquityDoc, who has an MPH in health behavior and a PhD in social epidemiology...

There is now clear data on Covid-19 and children: it should be safe to reopen English schools

Sweden's Covid-19 strategist under fire over herd immunity emails

Small Pleasures Are Just As Important For Our Wellbeing As Long-Term Goals

Covid-19 Deaths Skew Younger Among Minorities

On July 27th, 2020, the UK government released the new national strategy for tackling obesity. In big bold font, the heading of the official press release urges people to “Lose weight to beat COVID-19 and protect the NHS”.In the first 4 months of the pandemic, England witnessed the greatest rate of excess deaths in Europe. According to a New York Times analysis, between March 14 and July 17, 2020, the UK has had 62 600 more deaths, a 31% increase, compared with the same period last year.Obesity, along with other chronic conditions such as diabetes, is a recognised risk factor for severe clinical outcomes of COVID-19. The new obesity strategy, published alongside the ‘Better Health’ campaign, led by Public Health England, intends to restrict advertisements and promotions of unhealthy foods, improve nutritional labelling of foods and drinks in restaurants and stores, and expand weight management services.The ambition for a healthier nation, during and beyond COVID-19, is to be praised. However, at a time where our economies are fragile, bans on food promotions and advertisements could also result in higher prices and growing inequalities, which themselves contribute to obesity and poor health outcomes. Equally troubling, by targeting almost exclusively the obesogenic environment, and only a small part of it, the new policies fail to take into account the intricacy of biological, societal, and psychological factors that underpin obesity.The suggestion that it is necessary to lose weight to “reduce pressure on doctors and nurses in the NHS, and free up their time to treat other sick and vulnerable patients”, communicated in the policy document, is also one of the most glaring examples of health promotion strategies that draws on guilt and shame. Past Public Health history has shown that such campaigns are ineffective and even detrimental.The COVID-19 culture has become a blame culture. The obesity rates in England are concerning, but they are not the main culprit for the nation's high COVID-19 death toll. Let's not forget that people with obesity are vulnerable patients too.

Obesity and COVID-19: Blame isn't a strategy

Measuring evidence for mediation in the presence of measurement error

How schools can reopen safely during the pandemic

What the immune response to COVID-19 says about the prospects for a vaccine

Everything you need to know about Russia's coronavirus vaccine claims

Open Science Saves Lives: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Complacency, panic, and the value of gentle rule enforcement in addressing pandemics

A generalized linear threshold model for an improved description of the spreading dynamics

Real-time estimation of disease activity in emerging outbreaks using internet search information

Pandemic denial: Why some people can't accept Covid-19's realities

Saliva-based coronavirus test funded by NBA, NBPA gets emergency authorization from FDA

Op-Ed: We rely on science. Why is it letting us down when we need it most?

Who does or does not use the “Corona-Warn-App” and why?

Lockdown Evaluations During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Information Sources Differentially Trigger Coronavirus-Related Belief Change

Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health in India

My COVID-19

Why Zoom Can’t Save the World

My COVID-19

‘We felt we had beaten it’: New Zealand’s race to eliminate the coronavirus again

Which Retail Outlets Generate the Most Physical Interactions?

Which Workers Bear the Burden of Social Distancing Policies?

The Value of Health Insurance during a Crisis: Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality

Pandemic Recession: L or V-Shaped?

Estimating Probabilities of Success of Vaccine and Other Anti-Infective Therapeutic Development Programs

US Unemployment Insurance Replacement Rates During the Pandemic

Fiscal Policy and COVID19 Restrictions in a Demand-Determined Economy

Assessing the Age Specificity of Infection Fatality Rates for COVID-19: Meta-Analysis & Public Policy Implications

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19: Evidence from Six Large Cities