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Lay epidemiology and the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Jun 8, 2020

Lay epidemiology and COVID-19

by Charlie Davison
Was the COVID-19 virus moving around the world in late 2019? And did we actually already have that information, but lacked the collective framework to make lay epidemiology coherent? In terms of seeding and propagating the COVID-19 virus within the... More…
Health Inequalities and COVID-19
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May 11, 2020

Health Inequalities and COVID-19

by Paul Bissell, Marian Peacock and Sara MacDonald
Health Inequalities matter: why the poor and disadvantaged are more likely to die of COVID Anxious politicians want to make the case that COVID doesn’t discriminate, in order to frame the fatalities as effecting us equally rather than being due... More…
Are cities bad for our mental health?
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Nov 6, 2019

Are cities bad for our mental health?

by Rasmus H. Birk
Are cities bad for our mental health? The question of cities and mental health was once a key topic for sociologists and psychiatrists. In the 1930s, sociologists Faris and Dunham argued that the prevalence of schizophrenia in Chicago was caused,... More…

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