COVID-19 REPOSITORY

The COVID19 pandemic has created a set of circumstances like nothing that has been seen by the world’s population. Not only is there the immediate impact of high numbers of deaths but the personal, social, economic and political repercussions are going to be felt for years to come. The Politics of Health Group has long been campaigning to raise the profile of the causes and consequences of political and economic decision making on health and particularly on the differentials in health outcomes that these have created.

We are concerned to maintain a good record of the reality of the pandemic and have set up this repository as a resource for anyone who wishes to use it.

In line with our concerns it focuses on evidence and opinion pieces that highlight:-

• the differential health impact of COVID 19 on different groups
• the weaknesses of policy making, particularly in the UK in the light of the government's failure to take account of the results from Exercise Cygnus in 2016 which laid bare the total lack of preparedness that the UK had for any future pandemic.
• the social and economic implications
• what the future will look like after the pandemic has abated
• Reviewing the pandemic
• Practical resources to help during the Covid-19 pandemic

Differential Health Impact

• Institutionalized racism and violence and the impact on people's health

• COVID-19 has “devastating” effect on women and girls

• Young people in the time of Covid-19

• Unequal Impact of COVID-19: Emergency Neoliberalism and Welfare Policy in Canada

• Comparisons of all-cause mortality between European countries and regions: January to June 2020

• Initial Assessment Of London Bus Driver Mortality From COVID-19

• Economic fallout from pandemic will hit women hardest

• Higher mortality from COVID-19 in London study in Asian or Black compared to white participants

• Coronavirus could reverse a decade of progress in reducing global poverty levels, UN study suggests

• Direct and indirect impacts of COVID-19 on health and wellbeing

• COVID-19: exposing and amplifying inequalities

• GPs at the Deep End, Report 36: General Practice in the time of Covid-19

• Covid-19 fallout takes higher toll on women

• The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities

• Stuck at home in a cold home: the implications of Covid-19 for the fuel poor

• Ethnicity and Covid-19

• Urban Density, Poverty and the Pandemic

• The urban poor have been hit hard by coronavirus. We must ask who cities are designed to serve

• 9 wide ranging articles on COVID-19 in the USA in a special edition of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, published by Duke University

• Disparities in the risk and outcomes of COVID-19

• 'We are losers in this crisis': research finds lockdowns reinforcing gender inequality

• Coronavirus: its impact cannot be explained away through the prism of race

• We are not all in this together

• The plight of essential workers during the Covid-19 pandemic

• Report 22 - Equity in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: an assessment of the direct and indirect impacts on disadvantaged and vulnerable populations in low- and lower middle-income countries

• Face Masks for the General Public

• Are some ethnic groups more vulnerable to COVID-19 than others?

• UK coronavirus response utterly hypocritical, says UN poverty expert

• Inequalities in COVID19 mortality related to ethnicity and socioeconomic deprivation

• 'We have no idea how we are going to survive financially': loophole in 'settled status' scheme leaves EU nationals blocked from Universal Credit

• Coronavirus exposes how riddled Britain is with racial inequality

• COVID-19 exacerbating inequalities in the US

• England is faltering:The Marmot Review, 10 Years On

• The coronavirus may be indiscriminate but health inequality means that while all humans are vulnerable, some are more vulnerable than others.

• Coronavirus puts class dimension of mobility into sharp focus

• Following the Money - On the pandemic and magnified inequality

• Beyond sex and gender analysis: an intersectional view of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and response

• COVID-19: the gendered impacts of the outbreak

Weaknesses of Policy

• Before the first case had been diagnosed in the UK, the Government should have had in place the recommendations arising from Exercise Cygnus of 2016

• Track, Trace and the Myth of Private Sector Efficiency

• Why did England have Europe's worst Covid figures? The answer starts with austerity

• Are Populist Leaders Creating the Conditions for the Spread of COVID-19?; Comment on “A Scoping Review of Populist Radical Right Parties’ Influence on Welfare Policy and its Implications for Population Health in Europe”

• New obesity strategy unveiled as country urged to lose weight to beat coronavirus (COVID-19) and protect the NHS

• The role of private outsourcing in the COVID-19 response

• The U.S. and U.K. Were the Two Best Prepared Nations to Tackle a Pandemic—What Went Wrong?

• HSE has been missing in action throughout the Covid-19 crisis

• Special Report: Into the fog - How Britain lost track of the coronavirus

• Getting back on track: control of covid-19 outbreaks in the community

• Countries from Germany to Vietnam got test and trace right, so why didn't England?

• 4th Independent SAGE report - 9th June 2020. Towards an Integrated Find, Test, Trace, Isolate, Support (FTTIS) response to the Pandemic

• Covid-19 Shambles: 11 Reasons why “guided by science” claim is lie

• Exclusive: Government censored BAME covid-risk review

• Tens of thousands discharged into care homes before routine coronavirus testing in England

• COVID-19 UK Lockdown Forecasts and R₀

• 3rd Independent SAGE report - 28th May 2020. When should a school reopen? Final Report

• 2nd Independent SAGE report - 22th May 2020. Should Schools Re-Open?

• Sheffield Communion Contact Tracers

• Coronavirus: Why the maths behind ‘COVID alert levels’ makes no sense

• In a Life and Death Crisis, Will the British People Finally Wake-Up to the Reality of Boris Johnson?

• Independent SAGE report - 12th May 2020

• Strategy for a Pandemic: The UK and COVID-19

• Johnson’s message is very deliberate and very dangerous: here’s how to combat it

• She Predicted the Coronavirus. What Does She Foresee Next?

• Coronavirus Crisis: Underfunding, Restructuring, Privatisation and Fragmentation at the Heart of the Crisis in Holyrood and Westminster

• Revealed: Private firm running UK PPE stockpile was sold in middle of pandemic

• The governments covid-19 testing failure has been 10 years in the making

• Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan

• Covid-19 and the NHS – “a national scandal”

• Think piece on the rationale for the UK Government decision making

• Not wearing a mask to protect against coronavirus is a 'big mistake'

• Covid-19: local implementation of tracing and testing programmes could enable some schools to reopen

Social and Economic Implications

• In the Worst of Times, the Billionaire Elite Plunder Working Class America

• Fears grow of nutritional crisis in lockdown UK

• Determining the optimal strategy for reopening schools, the impact of test and trace interventions, and the risk of occurrence of a second COVID-19 epidemic wave in the UK: a modelling study

• A country level analysis measuring the impact of government actions, country preparedness and socioeconomic factors on COVID-19 mortality and related health outcomes

• Stay at home with no money for 2 weeks before hospital treatment, NHS patients told

• Offline: The second wave

• Covid-19 DemocracyWatch

• Covid aftercare piles pressure on ‘understaffed’ community services

• From COVID-19 to the End of Neoliberalism

• An Illusion Of Protection: The Pandemic, The ‘Criminal’ Government And Public Distrust of The Media

• The Consequences of Neoliberalism in the Current Pandemic

• Social trust and government responses to Covid-19

• Coronavirus: the damage is deep

• Covid-19 planning laws ‘captured’ by property developers (Scotland)

• Revealed: Thousands at risk from COVID-19 in ‘dangerous’ UK call centres

• How the facemask became the world’s most coveted commodity

• Covid 19 exposes the failure of the ‘post-political state'

• Should we be scared of the coronavirus debt mountain?

• The coming tsunami and how we prepare for it

• Coronavirus has exposed UK government’s failure to implement a long-term food plan

• Respecting the right to food during lockdown and crisis response: We need to talk about state duties

• The disgrace of government policy

• Are we witnessing the slow death of liberal capitalism?

• How will coronavirus end?

• The Climatic Virus in the Age of Paralysis

The Future

• Charting a Just and Sustainable Recovery for Scotland - A Plan for Scotland’s Programme for Government

• We Must Take Advantage of This Pandemic to Make a Radical Social Change: The Coronavirus as a Global Health, Inequality, and Eco-Social Problem

• Occupational health and safety in Scotland after the Covid-19 pandemic: the case for new principles, policies and practices

• A global debt crisis is looming – how can we prevent it?

• Five ways to reboot the global food economy to make it healthier for all

• Time For Change: a four-day week as an unemployment strategy

• The lesson of the Covid-19 care homes tragedy: renationalising is no longer taboo

• Reimagining Public Health

• We Need a Public Health Revolution

• Nine equality principles to adapt for economic recovery in Scotland

• Resilient Scotland - Part 1

• A European public-health facility

• The COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons on building more equal and sustainable societies

• Covid-19: food and health inequalities and the future of public health nutrition

• Humans are not resources. Coronavirus shows why we must democratise work

• Degrowth: new roots for the economy

• The future is public: Towards democratic ownership of public services

• Cities of Tomorrow

• Coronavirus is a failure of global governance – now the world needs a radical transformation

• Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change?

• Why coronavirus might just create a more equal society in Britain

• City leaders aim to shape green recovery from coronavirus

• Four scenarios for Europe’s future after the crisis

• Covid-19 affects everything—more than a disease control plan, we need a manifesto

• A People's HQ for Covid-19

• In the midst of an economic crisis, can 'degrowth' provide an answer?

• A call for a post pandemic health strategy

• Rescue, recover, reform

• Organizing under lockdown: online activism, local solidarity

• After the pandemic: a ten-point plan for the collective provision of basic needs

• Getting back to work

• Covid-19: how a virus is turning the world upside down

• The answer to pandemics? Strong public health systems

Reviewing the Pandemic

• Covid-19: The global crisis — in data   Charts and maps show paradoxes of a pandemic that has claimed a million lives

• Duty of Care - One NHS Doctor's Story of the Covid-19 Crisis by Dr Dominic Pimenta

  Published by Welbeck, September 2020 Duty of Care tells the full uncompromising story of the Covid-19 pandemic, from the point of view of a cardiologist working in an Intensive Care Unit. From the initial whispers coming out of China through the collective pandemic uncertainty to full lockdown. Pimenta reveals how the healthcare system shifted to a new paradigm, saving lives on the frontline. This incredibly personal account also highlights some of the most enduring stories of human kindness and generosity, including accounts of the heroic efforts of NHS Workers. Duty of Care gives an insight into the heart of the medical response in one of the world's worst-affected countries.

• A comprehensive source covering all aspects of the Pandemic

• Scotland Coronavirus Tracker

• Six months of coronavirus: the mysteries scientists are still racing to solve

• Coronavirus: health and social care key issues and sources

Resources for Covid-19

• A guide to improving mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Much that you need to know about Covid-19 and mental health is summed up in an Infographic in this link

• COVID-19 and Substance Abuse

• COVID-19 Mental Health And Addiction Resources