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Test, trace, track: the biopolitics of COVID-19 (redux)
01 May 2020 by Peter Mills
For a week or so now the public discourse on the UK’s COVID-19 epidemic has been shifting from the horror of the daily death count to the hope that there may be a way of relaxing the restrictions that have been placed on citizens’ freedom of movement and assembly.
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‘We’re all in this together’ – what does this mean for COVID-19 research?
06 May 2020 by Katharine Wright
In most emergencies, affected communities play a key role in initiating and leading response activities – in stark contrast to the stereotype of people overwhelmed by the emergency waiting helplessly for help from outsiders.
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Why the Government must engage the public on its COVID-19 response
07 May 2020 by Simon Burall
In order to exit lockdown safely, the UK will need to be able to identify virus hotspots and have a robust track and trace process in place to ensure that people who might be infected know that they need to self-isolate.
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Making our report on research in global health emergencies globally accessible
10 Jun 2020 by Sophia Prout
Global health emergencies aren’t restricted by language. As we see with the current COVID-19 pandemic, the virus isn’t limited to one country or continent – it affects everyone.
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The troubling prospect of immunity certificates
09 Jul 2020 by Bobbie Farsides
Guest post: This blog is an extended version of a presentation given by Professor Bobbie Farsides at last week’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ webinar “Ethical implications of antibody testing and 'immunity certification'."
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How ethically challenging are challenge trials?
24 Jul 2020 by Katharine Wright
Just at the point where vaccine trials are showing promise, levels of infection circulating in the general population in the UK are relatively low. This is obviously good news from many perspectives – but makes the next stage of testing more difficult. Is one possible answer human challenge trials?