While general lockdowns have proven effective to control SARS-CoV-2 epidemics, they come with enormous costs for society. It is therefore essential to identify control strategies with lower social and economic impact. Here, we report and evaluate the control strategy im...

Pneumothorax is an important complication of COVID-19 (1, 2). Based on a series of 60 individuals, we previously estimated that 0.91% of people admitted to hospital with COVID-19 develop pneumothorax (1). Males accounted for three quarters of those affected, and patient...

How to best utilise curriculum time has long been a question for England's schools which are free to vary time between subjects, or to extend the school day/week. This question has now risen to national prominence as policy makers consider ways to help support students ...

Funder: Cabinet Office, Government of the United Kingdom Misinformation about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a pressing societal challenge. Across two studies, one preregistered (n1 = 1771 and n2 = 1777), we assess the efficacy of two ‘prebunking’ interventions aim...

Rationale: Clinical trials are the gold standard for testing interventions. COVID-19 has further raised their public profile, and emphasised the need to deliver better, faster, more efficient trials for patient benefit. Considerable overlap exists between data required ...

The COVID-19 pandemic, its impact on the global economy, and current delays in the negotiation of the post-2020 global biodiversity agenda of the Convention on Biological Diversity heighten the urgency to build back better for biodiversity, sustainability, and well-bein...

Objectives: To estimate the direct and indirect effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on mortality in 2020 in 29 high-income countries with reliable and complete age-and-sex-disaggregated mortality data. Design: Multi-country time-series study. Setting: 29 high-income countr...