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Cambridge researchers have played a vital role in聽the fight back against COVID-19, from the use of genomics to track its spread and mathematic modelling to understand infection rates through to innovative screening programmes to keep its students and staff safe.

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Underactive immune response may explain obesity link to COVID-19 severity

20 March 2023

Individuals who are obese may be more susceptible to severe COVID-19 because of a poorer inflammatory immune response, say Cambridge scientists.

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13 May 2021

Professor Barbara Sahakian and Dr Christelle Langley write for 探花直播Conversation on the duty of easy rescue: the moral case for getting vaccinations...

Screen shots of Go Viral! on the left, and an example of UNESCO's #ThinkBeforeSharing campaign on the right.

鈥楶re-bunk鈥 tactics reduce public susceptibility to COVID-19 conspiracies and falsehoods, study finds

12 May 2021

Latest research on digital interventions deployed by UK government and UNESCO suggests that exposing people to a 鈥渕icrodose鈥 of techniques used by...

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Novel Coronavirus SARS-Cov-2

How accurate were early expert predictions on COVID-19, and how did they compare to the public?

05 May 2021

Who made more accurate predictions about the course of the COVID-19 pandemic 鈥 experts or the public? A study from the 探花直播 of Cambridge has...

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Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine

09 Apr 2021

All medical treatments have potential harms as well as potential benefits, and it's important to be able to weigh these against each other. The...

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Widespread use of control measures such as facemasks is vital to suppress the pandemic as lockdown lifts, say scientists

31 Mar 2021

A new mathematical model suggests that the easing of lockdown must be accompanied by wider and more effective use of control measures such as...

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Visualisation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

Cambridge leads national drug trial to prevent deaths after COVID-19 patients leave hospital

25 Mar 2021

A UK-wide study is being launched to reduce the number of people who die in the months following a stay in hospital with COVID-19.

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Hunting for COVID-19 variants

22 Mar 2021

Professor Sharon Peacock explains the story behind the UK's world-leading SARS-CoV-2 genomics capability.

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Coronavirus

Cambridge leads trial to see if tapeworm drug can boost protection from COVID-19 among vulnerable

22 Mar 2021

UK researchers are launching a clinical trial to investigate if the drug niclosamide, usually used to treat tapeworms, can prevent COVID-19 infection...

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COVID-19 world map

Use of AI to fight COVID-19 risks harming 'disadvantaged groups', experts warn

16 Mar 2021

Rapid deployment of artificial intelligence and machine learning to tackle coronavirus must still go through ethical checks and balances, or we risk...

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Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

Machine learning models for diagnosing COVID-19 are not yet suitable for clinical use

15 Mar 2021

Systematic review finds that machine learning models for detecting and diagnosing COVID-19 from medical images have major flaws and biases, making...

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Pandemic restrictions aggravating known triggers for self-harm and poor mental health among children and young people

10 Mar 2021

Experts have issued a stark warning about the effects of the pandemic on the mental health of children and young people.

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School closures may have wiped out a year of academic progress for pupils in Global South, study warns

09 Mar 2021

As much as a year鈥檚 worth of past academic progress made by disadvantaged children in the Global South may have been wiped out by school closures...

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