Health & Social Care
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COVID-19: Vaccines and other potential treatments
Reading Time: 11 minutes This article considers a number of recent medical developments in relation to COVID-19 and the implications of the new vaccine
‘Exit’ from COVID-19 lockdown: Social distancing and face coverings to minimise the spread of the virus
Reading Time: 10 minutes Context The RaISe research paper ‘Exit’ from COVID-19 ‘lockdown’: Health-related issues (20 May 2020) contained sections on transmission of the
‘Exit’ from COVID-19 lockdown: Use of testing and contact tracing
Reading Time: 9 minutes The Assembly Research and Information Service (RaISe) has published a number of papers on testing for Sars-CoV-2 tracking and contact
Ten reasons to be cautious about using R to support decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic
Reading Time: 9 minutes The risk is that a complicated number is released without context into a world that doesn’t know how to
COVID-19: How is testing and contact tracing being used in Northern Ireland and beyond?
Reading Time: 9 minutes Dr Janice Thompson and Sinéad McMurray This article is based on information extracted from the RaISe briefing paper: Testing
Loneliness: What is it and what can be done about it?
Reading Time: 8 minutes Although loneliness and social isolation are often reported synonymously, they are in fact distinct concepts. A person who is isolated
Where are we on the COVID-19 curve?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Most of us by now understand the need to ‘flatten the curve’ in order to reduce the number of
Visualisation of COVID-19 in Northern Ireland
Reading Time: < 1 minute By Keara McKay & Thomas Procter This is a visualisation prepared and maintained by the Northern Ireland Assembly Research and