[HTML][HTML] Persistent COVID-19 symptoms in a community study of 606,434 people in England

M Whitaker, J Elliott, M Chadeau-Hyam, S Riley… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Long COVID remains a broadly defined syndrome, with estimates of prevalence and
duration varying widely. We use data from rounds 3–5 of the REACT-2 study (n= 508,707; …

A literature review of the effects of air pollution on COVID-19 health outcomes worldwide: statistical challenges and data visualization

A Bhaskar, J Chandra, H Hashemi… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Several peer-reviewed papers and reviews have examined the relationship between
exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 spread and severity. However, many of the existing …

Regional excess mortality during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in five European countries

G Konstantinoudis, M Cameletti… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality from all causes in 2020 varied
across and within European countries. Using data for 2015–2019, we applied Bayesian …

Persistent symptoms following SARS-CoV-2 infection in a random community sample of 508,707 people

M Whitaker, J Elliott, M Chadeau-Hyam, S Riley… - Medrxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Background Long COVID, describing the long-term sequelae after SARS-CoV-2 infection,
remains a poorly defined syndrome. There is uncertainty about its predisposing factors and …

Effects of COVID-19 in care homes-a mixed methods review

C Heneghan, M Dietrich, J Brassey, T Jefferson - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Introduction The report provides an up-to-date review of the global effects of the COVID-19
pandemic in care homes. We used a mixed methods approach to assess care home …

Life expectancy and risk of death in 6791 communities in England from 2002 to 2019: high-resolution spatiotemporal analysis of civil registration data

T Rashid, JE Bennett, CJ Paciorek, Y Doyle… - The Lancet Public …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background High-resolution data for how mortality and longevity have changed in England,
UK are scarce. We aimed to estimate trends from 2002 to 2019 in life expectancy and …

[HTML][HTML] Associations of air pollution with COVID-19 positivity, hospitalisations, and mortality: observational evidence from UK Biobank

C Sheridan, J Klompmaker, S Cummins, P James… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Individual-level studies with adjustment for important COVID-19 risk factors suggest positive
associations of long-term air pollution exposure (particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide) …

A new avenue for Bayesian inference with INLA

J Van Niekerk, E Krainski, D Rustand, H Rue - Computational Statistics & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations (INLA) has been a successful
approximate Bayesian inference framework since its proposal by Rue et al.(2009). The …

[HTML][HTML] County-level estimates of excess mortality associated with COVID-19 in the United States

CA Ackley, DJ Lundberg, L Ma, IT Elo, SH Preston… - SSM-Population …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic in the US has been largely monitored using death certificates
containing reference to COVID-19. However, prior analyses reveal that a significant …

Elevated fires during COVID-19 lockdown and the vulnerability of protected areas

J Eklund, JPG Jones, M Räsänen, J Geldmann… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
There is little robust, quantitative information on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on
the extinction crisis. Focusing on Madagascar, one of the world's most threatened …