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How to make communal spaces safer from infection – and why it matters
Zero Covid Scotland held a public meeting on 5th November looking at how the risks of infection can be reduced in communal spaces. As initiatives to open warm hubs multiply in response to the impact of the cost of living crisis this is a crucial issue. There is a real challenge to get Covid Safety…
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What are we up against?
In a week when Independent Sage has shared a devastating analysis of the ongoing damage that Covid is inflicting on people and as the latest Covid wave gathers momentum, Mike Downham gives a personal view of how we have come to a situation where government and many individuals behave as if Covid is yesterday’s problem.…
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Briefing – people at high and special risk of infection
infection This briefing looks at the risks associated with Covid infection, the conditions (both physical and environmental) which may place some groups of people more at risk, and what can be done to reduce that risk. Download the briefing here. What are the risks associated with a SARS-CoV-2 Infection? SARS-CoV-2 is the virus which causes…
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Vaccines and Variants – briefing
We are grateful to Dr. Jeremy Rossman for providing us with this up-to-date analysis. Download the briefing here. With the start of fall many of us are wondering what is on the horizon for COVID-19 and what can we do about it. The first key message is that the pandemic is not over and that…
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How important is clean air in preventing Covid infections?
This is the latest briefing from Zero Covid Scotland – download it from our Resources page SARS-Cov2 is almost always transmitted by breathing in viral particles that have been exhaled by somebody with an acute infection. The same is true for many other viruses, such as those causing flu or the cold. When somebody is…
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Covid – forgotten (by governments) but not gone
This article by Pete Cannell was first published on the rs21 website. The latest wave of Covid appears to have peaked and started to decline across the four UK nations. That said the rate of infection driven by the BA.4/BA.5 variants has been astonishingly high. Three weeks ago, data from the Office of National Statistics’ (ONS) snapshot of…
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More on excess deaths
This short post is a follow up to Graham Checkley’s post. The figures in this comment are for the period up to 10th August 2022, with thanks to Almuth Ernsting for her painstaking research. Since 9th August 2021, when the Scottish Government abandoned most mitigations against Covid, 5,719 more people have died in Scotland than would be expected from…
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The quest of the virosols
A really clear cartoon approach to the science of virus spreading via aerosols – produced by staff at the Aerosol Research Centre at Taiwan’s National Sun Yat-sen University
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Excess deaths: the human cost of ‘living with Covid’
Graham Checkley looks at the human cost of living with Covid In February of this year, the Scottish Government published their plan for “Living safely with Covid”. Since that date there have been 2,213 excess deaths, 1,185 from Covid. It’s a simple enough human statistic, how many people are dying compared to a prior 5…
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