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Analysing the global impact of Covid-19 restrictions.
Sep 15, 2021 11 tweets 4 min read
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Does it matter if schools are closed?

A New government paper aims to summarise the existing evidence of the health and wellbeing benefits of school-age education.

A Summary of key findings.

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School closure is associated with fewer admissions to hospital and ED presentations, and has the potential to impact on routine vaccination coverage (Viner et al, 2021)

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Jun 3, 2021 7 tweets 3 min read
@Telegraph cites NHS officials saying,

"Cancer patients who decided not to seek treatment during lockdown are now overwhelming emergency units"

#CollateralGlobal thinks this is a mischaracterization of the backlog source...

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telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/3… The title of our research is,

"Review of the Impact of COVID-19 First Wave Restrictions on Cancer Care"

And while we do take a global perspective & local conditions varied, it is broadly accurate that *restrictions* caused these barriers to care...

collateralglobal.org/article/review…
May 14, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental illness, second only to opioid addiction. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Over the past 14 months, the rate of eating disorders requiring hospitalization among young people has skyrocketed...

(1/7) In Bedfordshire, the number of NHS referrals for eating disorders increased from 90 to 220 - a 244% increase...

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bbc.com/news/uk-englan…