Students in Rwanda confound pandemic predictions and head back to school

New data from Rwanda, and some of the first published on how COVID-19 has impacted school attendance in the Global South, suggest that a widely-predicted spike

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 7, 2022 ~6 min

Referrals to long COVID clinic fell by 79% following roll-out of the vaccine

Referrals to Cambridge’s long COVID clinic fell dramatically in the period August 2021 to June 2022, which researchers say is likely due to the successful

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 6, 2022 ~5 min


Set up reserve lab capacity now for faster response to next pandemic, say researchers

Researchers say a ‘human bottleneck’, due to historical cuts in public health funding, delayed the UK’s scale-up of COVID-19 testing in the early stages of the

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 28, 2022 ~5 min

Intensive farming may actually reduce risk of pandemics, experts argue

Scientists evaluate the evidence that intensive livestock farming is causing pandemics, and find that intensive farming could actually reduce the risk of

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 24, 2022 ~4 min

No ‘safest spot’ to minimise risk of COVID-19 transmission on trains

Researchers have demonstrated how airborne diseases such as COVID-19 spread along the length of a train carriage and found that there is no ‘safest spot’ for

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 22, 2022 ~5 min

Heart surgery delays will cost lives, warns research

Pandemic has delayed lifesaving treatment for thousands of people with severe aortic stenosis. 

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 17, 2022 ~5 min

Scientists publish first real-world data from Africa looking at immune response to AZ/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine

Scientists have released the first real-world data from Africa on the effectiveness of two doses of AstraZeneca/ChaAd0x-1 COVID-19 vaccination, showing that

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 11, 2022 ~5 min

Protected areas saw dramatic spikes in fires during COVID lockdowns, study finds

Scientists suggest that some staffing of protected areas should be considered “essential services” in future crises. 

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 5, 2022 ~5 min


Cognitive impairment from severe COVID-19 equivalent to 20 years of ageing, study finds

Cognitive impairment as a result of severe COVID-19 is similar to that sustained between 50 and 70 years of age and is the equivalent to losing 10 IQ points,

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 3, 2022 ~7 min

Women in England had predominantly negative experiences of childbirth during pandemic in 2020, survey finds

47% of parents in a national survey reported negative experiences of giving birth during the pandemic in 2020, with uncertainties about rapidly changing

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 12, 2022 ~6 min

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