Below is a list of COVID-19 related academic publications that members of Independent SAGE have contributed to since the start of the pandemic. This list was last updated 22 April 2021.
Clinical characteristics and management
Roberts CM, Levi M, McKee M, Schilling R, Lim WS, Grocott M. COVID-19: a complex multi-system disease Br J Anaesthesia 2020: DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2020.06.013
Islam N, Khunti K, Chowell-Puente G. COVID-19 and ACEIS or ARBs: Duration of underlying Disease and Treatment. The New England Journal of Medicine. In press
Rubino F, Amiel SA, Zimmet P, Alberti G, Bornstein S, Eckel RH, Mingrone G, Boehm B, Cooper ME, Chai Z, Del Prato S, Ji L, Hopkins D, Herman WH, Khunti K, Mbanya JC, Renard E. New-Onset Diabetes in Covid-19. New England Journal of Medicine 2020 Aug.383 (8):789-790. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2018688. [Epub 2020 Jun 12]. PMID: 32530585
Khunti K, Levene S, Seidu S, Greenhalgh T. How might primary care ensure that effective planned care for long term conditions is maintained during and post the COVID-19 pandemic? Challenges and opportunities. The BMJ – In press
Jackson T, Deibert D, Wyatt G, Durand-Moreau Q, Adisesh A, Khunti K, Khunti S, Smith S, Chan XHS, Ross L, Roberts N, Toomey E, Greenhalgh T, Arora I, Black SM, Drake J, Syam N, Temple R, Straube S. Classification of aerosol- generating procedures: a rapid systematic review. BMJ Open Respiratory Research 2020 Oct.7 (1):e000730. Doi: 10.1136/bmjresp-2020-000730.PMID: 33040021
Levene LS, Seidu S, Greenhalgh T, Khunti K. Pandemic threatens primary care for long term condition. BMJ 2020 Oct 5; 371:m3793. Doi:10.1136/bmj.m3793.PMID:33020049
Reeves K, Watson S, Pankhurst T, Khunti K, Gallier S, Skrybant M, Chilton PJ, Lilford RJ. No Evidence for Reduced Hospital Admissions or Increased Deaths from Stroke or Heart Attack during Covid 19. MedRxiv preprint. Doi: 10.1101/2020.06.08.20119636.
Khunti K, Straube S, Adisesh A, Chan XHS, Banerjee A, Greenhalgh T. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in primary and community care during COVID-19 pandemic. British Journal of General Practice 2020 Jul.70 (697):374-375. DOI: 10.3399/bjgp20X711797.
Khunti K, Adisesh A, Burton C, Chan XHS, Coles B, Durand-Moreau Q, Jackson T, Ross L, Straube S, Toomey E, Greenhalgh S. The efficacy of PPE for COVID-19-type respiratory illnesses in primary and community care staff. British Journal of General Practice 2020 Jul (697):413-416. DOI: 10.3399/bjgp20X710969. PMID: 32661012
Chudasama YV, Gillies CL, Zaccardi F, Coles B, Davies MJ, Seidu S, Khunti K. Impact of COVID-19 on routine care for chronic diseases : A global survey of views from healthcare professionals. Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome 2020 Sep-Oct.14 (5): 965-967. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsx.2020.06.042.
Kumar Singh A, Khunti K. Assessment of risk, severity, mortality, glycemic control and antidiabetic agents in patients with diabetes and COVID-19: A Narrative review. Diabetes Research Clinical Practice 2020 Jul; 11:165:108266. DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2020.108266.
Bornstein SR, Rubino F, Khunti K, Mingrone G, Hopkins D, Birkenfeld AL, Boehm B, Amiel S, Holt RI, Skyler JS, DeVries JH, Renard E, Eckel RH, Zimmet P, Alberti KG, Vidal J, Geloneze B, Chan JC, Ji L, Ludwig B. Practical recommendations for the management of diabetes in patients with COVID-19. Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology 2020 Jun.8 (6):546-550. DOI: 10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30152-2.
Ehtasham A, Davies MJ, Khunti K.Rapid Review: Diabetic retinopathy screening during the COVID-19 pandemic. May 12, 2020. https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/rapid-review-diabetic-retinopathy-screening-during-the-covid-19-pandemic
Khunti S, Khunti N, Seidu S, Khunti K. Therapeutic uncertainties in people with cardiometabolic diseases and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19). Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism 2020 April 21.DOI: 10.1111/dom.14062.
Coles B, Burton C, Khunti K, Greenhalgh T, Chan XH, Ross L. What is the effectiveness of protective gowns and aprons against COVID-19 in primary care settings? April 16, 2020. https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/what-is-the-effectiveness-of-protective-gowns-and-aprons-against-covid-19-in-primary-care-settings
Hartmann-Boyce, Morriss M, Goyder C, Kinton J, Perring J, Nunan D, Khunti K. Managing diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic. April 8, 2020. https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/managing-diabetes-during-the-covid-19-pandemic
Khunti K, Greenhalgh T, Chan XH, Durand-Morad Q, Straube S, Devane D, Toomey E, Adisesh A. What is the efficacy of eye protection equipment compared to no eye protection equipment in preventing transmission of COVID-19 type respiratory illnesses in primary and community care? April, 3 2020 .https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/what-is-the-efficacy-of-eye-protection-equipment-compared-to-no-eye-protection-equipment-in-preventing-transmission-of-covid-19-type-respiratory-illnesses-in-primary-and-community-care
Greenhalgh T, Chan XH, Khunti K, Durand-Moraud Q, Straube S, Devane D, Toomey E, Adisesh A. What is the efficacy of standard face masks compared to respiratory masks in preventing COVID-type respiratory illnesses in primary care staff? March, 23 2020. https://www.cebm.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-CAT-PPE-MASKS-7.pdf
Holmes EA, O’Connor RC, Perry VH, Tracey I, Wessely S, Arseneault L, Ballard C, Christensen H, Cohen Silver R, Everall I … Michie S et al. (2020) Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science. Lancet Psychiatry. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanpsy/PIIS2215-0366(20)30168-1.pdf
Behavioural sciences
Bauld, L. Maintaining trust in the covid-19 vaccine programme will be essential in the months ahead, BMJ Opinion, April 9th 2021.
Reicher, S and Bauld, L. From the ‘fragile rationalist’ to ‘collective resilience’: what human psychology has taught us about the COVID-19 pandemic and what the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us about human psychology, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, in press.
Vanoni M, McKee M, Bonell C, Semenza J, Stuckler D. Using volunteered geographic information to assess mobility in the COVID-19 pandemic context: cross-city time series analysis of 41 cities in 22 countries from March 2nd to 26th 2020. Globalization Health 2020 Sep 23;16(1):85.
Jetten, J., Reicher, SD.., Haslam, A., & Cruwys, T. (2020). A social identity analysis of COVID-19. Together apart. The psychology of COVID-19. London: Sage
Van Bavel, J. J., Baicker, K., Boggio, P. S., Capraro, V., Cichocka, A., Cikara, M., … Reicher, S.D. et al. (2020). Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 460-471
Reicher, S.D., & Stott, C. (2020). On order and disorder during the COVID‐19 pandemic. British Journal of Social Psychology, 59, 694-702.
Drury, J., Reicher, S.D., & Stott, C. (2020). COVID‐19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It’s probably not because of collective psychology. British Journal of Social Psychology, 59, 686-693.
Drury, J. , Reicher, S.D. & Hopkins, N.P. (2020) The psychology of physical distancing. The Psychologist https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-33/summer-2020/psychology-physical-distancing
Drury, J., Carter, H., Ntontis, E., & Tekin Guven, S. (2021). Public behaviour in response to the Covid-19 pandemic: Understanding the role of group processes. British Journal of Psychiatry Open 7(1), e11 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2020.139
Drury, J., Rogers, M. B., Marteau, T. M., Yardley, L., Reicher, S., & Stott, C. (2021). Re-opening live events and large venues after Covid-19 ‘lockdown’: Behavioural risks and their mitigations. Safety Science, 139 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105243
Drury, J., Mao, G., John, A., Kamal, A., Rubin, G. J., Stott, C., Vandrevala, T., & Marteau, T. (2021). Behavioural responses to Covid-19 health certification: A rapid review. medRxiv 2021.04.07.21255072; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.07.21255072
Stevenson C, Wakefield J. R. H., Felsner I., Drury J., & Costa. S. (in press) Collectively coping with coronavirus: Local community identification predicts giving support and lockdown adherence during the COVID-19 pandemic British Journal of Social Psychology.
Reicher, S., & Stott, C. (2020). Policing the Coronavirus Outbreak: Processes and Prospects for Collective Disorder. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice.
Reicher, S.D. & Drury, J. (2020) Don’t personalise, Collectivise! The Psychologist. https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/dont-personalise-collectivise
Reicher, S.D., Drury, J. & Stott, C. (2020) The truth about panic. https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/truth-about-panic
Reicher, S.D.., Drury, J., & Stott, C. J. T. (2020). The two psychologies and coronavirus. The Psychologist. https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/two-psychologies-and-coronavirus
O’Connor, D. B., Aggleton, J. P., Chakrabarti, B., Cooper, C. L., Creswell, C., Dunsmuir, S., …, Reicher S.D. et al.. (2020). Research priorities for the COVID‐19 pandemic and beyond: A call to action for psychological science. British Journal of Psychology, e12468.
Bonell, C., Michie, S., Reicher, S.D., West, R., Bear, L., Yardley, L., … & Rubin, G. J. (2020). Harnessing behavioural science in public health campaigns to maintain ‘social distancing’ in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: key principles. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health,74:617-619. 10.1136/jech-2020-214290
Michie S and West R (in press) Sustained behaviour change is key to preventing and tackling future pandemics. Nature Medicine.
Michie S, Potts HWW, West R, Amlot, Smith LE, NT Fear, Rubin GJ. (2021) Factors associated with nonessential workplace attendance during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK in early 2021: evidence from cross-sectional surveys. MedRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.30.21254333
West R, Michie S, Rubin GJ, Amlot R (2020) Applying principles of behaviour change to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 451–459. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0887-9.
Michie S, West R, Rogers B, Bonell C, Rubin GJ, Amlôt R (2020) Reducing SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the UK: a behavioural science approach to identifying options for increasing adherence to social distancing and shielding vulnerable people. British Journal of Health Psychology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjhp.12428
Allison AL , Ambrose-Dempster E, Domenech R , ….. Michie S …Ward J (preprint) The environmental dangers of employing single-use face masks as part of a COVID-19 exit strategy. The environmental dangers of employing single-use face masks as part of a COVID-19 exit strategy. UCL Open: Environment.
Perski O, Simons D, West R, Michie S. (2020) Face masks to prevent community transmission of viral respiratory infections: A rapid evidence review using Bayesian analysis. doi:10.32388/1SC5L4.
Michie S, West R and Harvey N. (2020) The concept of “fatigue” in tackling covid-19. BMJ; 371:m4171. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4171
Michie S and West R (2020) Behavioural, environmental, social, and systems interventions against covid-19. BMJ Editorials 2020; 370 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2982
Smith LE, Potts HWW, Amlȏt R, Fear NT, Michie S, Rubin GJ (2021) Adherence to the test, trace and isolate system: results from a time series of 21 nationally representative surveys in the UK (the COVID-19 Rapid Survey of Adherence to Interventions and Responses [CORSAIR] study). BMJ 2021;372:n608
Michie S, Potts HWW, West R, Amlot, Smith LE, NT Fear, Rubin GJ. (2021) Factors associated with nonessential workplace attendance during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK in early 2021: evidence from cross-sectional surveys. MedRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.30.21254333
Holmes EA, O’Connor RC, Perry VH, Tracey I, Wessely S, Arseneault L, Ballard C, Christensen H, Cohen Silver R, Everall I … Michie S et al. (2020) Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science. Lancet Psychiatry. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanpsy/PIIS2215-0366(20)30168-1.pdf
Occupational, socio-demographic & health risk factors
Pagel, A very real danger that covid-19 will become entrenched as a disease of poverty, BMJ Opinion, https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/04/09/christina-pagel-a-very-real-danger-that-covid-19-will-become-entrenched-as-a-disease-of-poverty/, April 2021
Pagel and Palmer, “’We are setting ourselves on fire to keep everyone else warm’—what does the recovery look like for NHS staff?”, BMJ, 372:n569, doi:https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n569 , 2021
Agius RM, Robertson JFR, Kendrick D, Sewell HF, Stewart M, McKee M. Covid-19 in the workplace. BMJ 2020; 370: m3577
Martin CA, Patel P, Goss C, Jenkins DR, Price A, Barton L, Gupta P, Zaccardi F, Jerina H, Duraisingham S, Brunskill NJ, Khunti K, Pareek M. Demographic and occupational determinants of the anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG seropositivity in hospital staff. Journal of Public Health. In Press
Clark A, Jit M, Warren-Gash C, Guthrie B, WangHHX, Mercer SW, Sanderson C, McKee M, Troeger C, Ong KI, Checchi F,Perel P, Joseph S, Gibbs HP, Banerjee A, Eggo RM, CMMID COVID-19 working group. Global, regional, and national estimatesof the population at increased risk of severe COVID-19 due to underlying healthconditions in 2020: a modelling study. Lancet Global Health 2020; 8: E1003-E1017
Lloyd-Sherlock P, Ebrahim S, Geffen L, McKee M. Bearing the brunt of covid-19: older people in low and middle income countries. BMJ 2020; 368: m1052
Barron E, Bakhai C, Kar P, Weaver A, Bradley D, Ismail H, Knighton P, Holman N, Khunti K, Sattar N, Wareham NJ, Young B, Valabhji J. Association of type 1 and type 2 diabetes with COVID-19 related mortality in England: a whole- population study. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 2020 Oct.8 (10):813-832. DOI: 10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30272-2. [Epub 2020 Aug 13]. PMID: 32798472
Holman N, Knighton P, Kar P, O’Keefe J, Curley M, Weaver A, Barron E, Bakhai C, Khunti K, Wareham NJ, Sattar N, Young B, Valabhji J. Risk factors for COVID-19-related mortality in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in England: a population-based cohort study. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 2020 Oct.8 (10):823-833 DOI: 10.1016/S2213-8587 (20)30271-0.
Farooqi AT, Snoek FJ, Khunti K. Management of chronic cardiometabolic conditions and mental health during COVID-19. Primary care diabetes 2020 Sep. DOI: 10.1016/j.pcd.2020.08.016.
Seidu S, Gillies C, Zaccardi F, Kunutsor SK,Hartmann-Boyce J, Yates T, Singh AK, Davies MJ, Khunti K. The impact of obesity on severe disease and mortality in people with SARS-CoV-2: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Endocrinology, Diabetes and metabolism 2020 Aug. DOI: 10.1002/edm2.176.
Yates T, Razieh C, Zaccardi F, Seidu S, Davies MJ, Khunti K. Obesity, walking pace and risk of severe COVID-19: Analysis of UK Biobank. MedRxiv preprint. Doi: 10.1101/2020.07.10.20150003.July 11 2020.
Razieh C, Zaccardi F, Davies MJ, Khunti K, Yates T. Body mass index and risk of COVID-19 across ethnic groups: analysis of UK Biobank study. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism 2020 Jun 29. DOI: 10.1111/dom.14125.
Singh AK, Gillies CL, Singh R, Singh A, Chudasama Y, Coles B, Seidu S, Zaccardi F, Davies MJ, Khunti K. Prevalence of comorbidities and their association with mortality in patients with COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Diabetes Obesity & Metabolism 2020 Jun 23. DOI: 10.1111/dom.14124.
Chudasama YV, Gillies CL, Appiah K, Zaccardi F, Razieh C, Davies MJ, Yates T, Khunti K. Multimorbidity and SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK Biobank. Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome 2020 Sep-Oct 14(5):775-776. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsx.2020.06.003.
Yates T, Razieh C, Zaccardi F, Davies MJ, Khunti K. Obesity and Risk of COVID-19: Analysis of UK Biobank. Primary care Diabetes 2020 Oct.14 (5):566-567.DOI: 10.1016/j.pcd.2020.05.011.
Ethnicity
Martin CA, Marshall C, Patel P, Goss C, Jenkin DR, Ellwood C, Barton L, Price A, Brunskill NJ, Khunti K, Pareek M. Association of demographic and occupational factors with SARS-CoV-2 vaccine uptake in a multi-ethnic UK healthcare workforce: a rapid real-world analysis. PLOS MEDICINE(In press)
Pui ST, Patone M, Clift Ak, Dambha-Miller H, Saatci D, Ranger T, Garriga C, Zaccardi F, Shah BR, Coupland C, Griffin S, Khunti K. Hippisley-Cox J. Influenza, Shingles and Pneumococcal Vaccine Uptake, Offer and Refusal in Adult Populations at High-Risk for COVID-19: A UK Population-Based Cohort Study. The lancet. (In press)
Mathur R, Rentsch CT, Morton CE, Hulme WJ, Schultze A, MacKenna B, Eggo R, Bhaskaran K, Wong AY, Williamson EJ, Forbes H, Wing K, McDonald HI, Bates C, Bacon S, Walker AJ, Evans D, Inglesby P, Mehrkar A, Curtis HJ, DeVito NJ, Croker R, Drysdale H, Cockburn J, Parry, J, Hester F, Harper S, Douglas IJ, Tomlinson L, Evans SJW, Grieve R, Harrison D, Rowan K, Khunti K et al. Ethnic differences in COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation, and mortality: an Open SAFELY analysis of 17 million adults in England. Lancet(In press)
Woolf K, Melbourne C, Bryant L, Guyatt LA, McManus C, Gupta A, Khunti K et al. The United Kingdom Research study into ethnicity And COVID-19 outcomes in Healthcare workers (UK-REACH) : Protocol for a prospective longitudinal cohort study of healthcare and ancillary workers in UK healthcare settings. medRxiv(In press)
Rue Y, Ryder EJR, De P, Field CTB, Narendran P, Iqbal A, Gandhi R. Harris S, Nagi D, Aziz U, Karra E, Ghosh S, Edwards AE, Zafar M, Dashora U, Khunti K. Characteristics and clinical outcomes of people with Type 1 diabetes admitted with COVID-19 in UK hospitals. Diabetelogia(in press)
Khunti K, Routen A, Banerjee A, Pareek M. The need for improved collection and coding of ethnicity in health research. Journal of Public Health 2020 Dec. Doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa198. [Online ahead of print]. PMID: 33283239
Patel P, Hiam L, Sowemimo A, Devakumar D, McKee M. Ethnicity and COVID-19. BMJ 2020; 369: m2282
Hargreaves S, Kumar BN, McKee M, Jones L,Veizis A. Europe’s migrant containment policies threaten the response to covid-19. BMJ 2020; 368: m1213
Highton PJ, Hadjiconstantinou M, Schreder S, Seidu S, Davies M, Khunti K. COVID-19, Ethnicity and Cardiometabolic Disease Self-Management. Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research and Reviews. In press
Ekezie W, Czyznikowska BM, Rohit S, Harrison J, Miah N, Campbell-Morris P, Khunti K.The views of ethnic minority and vulnerable communities towards participation in COVID-19 vaccine trials.Journal of Public Health 2020 Oct. Doi : 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa196.[online ahead of print].PMID : 33124667
Vahe N, Glickman M, Blackwell L, Rogers N, White C, Gaughan C, Humberstone B, Banerjee A, Khunti K, Goldblatt P, Diamond I, Ayoubkhani D. Ethnic minority groups in England and Wales – factors associated with the size and timing of elevated COVID-19 mortality: a retrospective cohort study linking Census and death records. International Journal of Epidemiology. In press
Khunti K, Routen A, Patel K, Ali S, Gill P, Banerjee A, Lad A, Patel V, Hanif W. COVID-19 in Black , Asian and Minority Ethnic populations : An evidence review and recommendations from the SOUTH Asian Health Foundation. ISBN 978-0-9546712-3-5. (Report)
Routen A, Darko N, Willis A, Miksza J, Khunti K. The impact of Covid-19 and lockdown measures on self-reported life satisfaction and social relationships does not differ by ethnicity. Journal of Public Health (Oxf) 2020 Sep 15.fdaa160. Doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa160. [Online ahead of print].PMID: 32930715
Vepa A, Bae JP, Ahmed F, Pareek M, Khunti K. COVID-19 and ethnicity: A novel pathophysiological role for inflammation. Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome 2020 Sep-Oct. 14(5): 1043-1051. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsx.2020.06.056. [Epub 2020 Jun 3]. PMID: 32640416
Ekezie W, Czyznikowska B, Campbell-Morris P, Rohit S, Miah N, Harrison J, Hulley K, Khunti K, Akroyd C, Farooqi A. Public Perceptions Towards Vaccine Trial Research within Ethnic Minority and Vulnerable communities. September 2020.http://arc-em.nihr.ac.uk/clahrcs-store/public-perceptions-towards-vaccine-trial-research-within-ethnic-minority-and(Report)
Islam N, Khunti K, Dambha-Miller H, Kawachi I, Marmot M. COVID-19 mortality: A complex interplay of sex, gender and ethnicity. European Journal of Public Health 2020 Aug. DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa150. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 32745211
Martin CA, Jenkins DR, Minhas JS, Gray LJ, Tang J, Williams C, Sze S, Pan D, Jones W, Verma R, Knapp S, Major R, Davies M, Brunskill N, Wiselka M, Brightling C, Khunti K, Halder P, Pareek M. Socio-demographic heterogeneity in the prevalence of COVID-19 during lockdown is associated with ethnicity and household size: results from an observational cohort study. Eclinical Medicine 2020 Aug.25:100466 DOI: 10.1016/ j.eclinm.2020.100466.
Hanif S, Hanif W, Khunti K, Ali SN. Covid-19 and Ramadan 2020: time for reflection. The BMJ opinion 2020 July 3.https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/03/covid-19-and-ramadan-2020-time-for-reflection
Khunti K, Platt L, Routen A, Abbasi K. Covid-19 and ethnic minorities: an urgent agenda for overdue action. BMJ 2020 Jun 23; 369:m2503. DOI:10.1136/bmj.m2503. PMID: 32576558
Hanif S,Ali SN, Hassanein M, Khunti K, Hanif W. Managing People with Diabetes Fasting for Ramadan During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A South Asian Health Foundation Update. Diabetic Medicine 2020 Jul.37 (7):1094-1102. DOI: 10.1111/dme.14312.
Treweek S, Forouhi NG, Narayan KMV, Khunti K. COVID-19 and ethnicity: who will research results apply to? The Lancet 2020 Jun 27; 395(10242):1955-1957.DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31380-5.
Khunti K, Pareek M. Covid-19 in ethnic minority groups: where do we go following PHE’s report? The BMJ opinion 2020 June 8. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/06/08/covid-19-in-ethnic-minority-groups-where-do-we-go-following-phes-report
Pan D, Sze S, Minhas JS, Bangash MN, Pareek N, Divall P, Williams MLC, Oggioni MR, Squire IB, Nellums LB, Hanif W, Khunti K, Pareek M. The impact of ethnicity on Clinical outcomes in COVID-19: A systematic review. EclinicalMedicine 2020 Jun.3; 23:100404. DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100404.
Razaq A, Harrison D, Karunanithi S, Barr B, Asaria M, Routen A, Khunti K. BAME COVID-19 DEATHS-what do we know? Rapid Data & Evidence Review. May 5 2020. https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/bame-covid-19-deaths-what-do-we-know-rapid-data-evidence-review.
Pareek M, Bangash MN, Pareek N, Pan D, Sze S, Minhas JS, Hanif W, Khunti K. Ethnicity and COVID-19: An urgent public health research priority.The Lancet 2020 May. 2; 395(10234):1421-1422. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30922-3.
Khunti K, Singh AK, Pareek M, Hanif W. Is ethnicity linked to incidence or outcomes of covid-19? BMJ 2020 Apr.369:m1548. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.m1548. PMID: 32312785
Government responses
Priesemann et al. “An action plan for pan-European defence against new SARS-CoV-2 variants”, Lancet, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00150-1 2021 (co-signatories)
McKee M. England’s PPE procurement failures must never happen again. BMJ 2020: 370: m2858
Scally G. The demise of Public Health England. BMJ. 2020 Aug 19;370:m3263. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m3263. PMID: 32816779.
Scally G, Jacobson B, Abbasi K. The UK’s public health response to covid-19. BMJ. 2020 May 15;369:m1932.
Alwan NA, Bhopal R, Burgess RA, Colburn T, Cuevas LE, Smith GD, Egger M, Eldridge S, Gallo V, Gilthorpe MS, Greenhalgh T, Griffiths C, Hunter PR, Jaffar S, Jepson R, Low N, Martineau A, McCoy D, Orcutt M, Pankhania B, Pikhart H, Pollock A, Scally G, Smith J, Sridhar D, Taylor S, Tennant PWG, Themistocleous Y, Wilson A; 36 signatories. Evidence informing the UK’s COVID-19 public health response must be transparent. Lancet. 2020 Mar 28;395(10229):1036-1037.
McKee M. Achieving zero covid is not easy, but the alternative is far worse. BMJ. 2020 Oct 7;371:m3859.
McKee M, Stuckler D. If the world fails to protect the economy, COVID will damage health not just now but also in the future. Nature Med 2020: DOI: 10.1038/s41591-020-0863-y
Outcomes
Khunti K, Knighton P, Zaccardi F, Bakhai C, Barron E, Holman N, Kar P, Meace C, Sattar N, Sharp S, Wareham NJ, Weaver A, Woch E, Young B, Valabhji J. Prescription of glucose-lowering therapies and risk of COVID-19 mortality in people with type 2 diabetes: a nationwide observational study in England. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2021 Mar 30. Doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(21)00050-4. [Online ahead of print].PMID: 33798464
Ayoubkhani D, Khunti K, Nafilyan V, Maddox T, Humberstone B, Diamond I, Banerjee A. Post-covid syndrome in individuals admitted to hospital with covid-19: retrospective cohort study. BMJ 2021 Mar 31.372:n693. Doi: 10.1136/bmj.n693.PMID: 33789877
Wray, Pagel, Chester, Kennedy, Crowe, “The impact of the first wave of COVID-19 on those with lifelong conditions: a case study of congenital heart disease”, submitted, BMJ Open, 2021. Preprint https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.13.21249447v1
Kontis V, Bennett JE, Rashid T, Parks RM, Pearson-Stuttard J, Guillot M, Asaria P, Zhou B, Battaglini M, Corsetti G, McKee M, Di Cesare M, Mathers CD, Ezzati M. Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the impact of the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialised countries. Nature Med 2020: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-1112-0
Hippisley-Cox J, Clift AK, Coupland C, Keogh R ,Diaz-Ordaz, Williamson E,Harrison EM,Hayward A, Hemingway H,Horby P, Mehta N, Benger J, Khunti K, Speigelhalter D, Sheikh A, Valabhji J, Lyons RA, Robson J, Semple C, Kee F, Johnson P, Jebb S, Williams T, Coggon D. Protocol development and evaluation of a tool for predicting risk of short-term outcomes due to COVID-19 in the general UK population. MedRxiv preprint .Doi: 10.1101/2020.06.28.20141986. June 29, 2020.
Levene LS, Coles B, Davies MJ, Hanif W, Zaccardi F, Khunti K. COVID-19 cumulative mortality rates for frontline healthcare staff in England. British Journal of General Practice 2020 Jun.70 (696): 327-328.
Banerjee A, Pasea L, Harris S, Gonzalez-Izquierdo A, Torralbo A, Shallcross L, Noursadeghi M, Pillay D, Sebire N, Holmes C, Pagel C, Wong WK, Langenberg C, Williams B, Denaxas S, Hemingway H. Estimating excess 1-year mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic according to underlying conditions and age: a population-based cohort study. Lancet. 2020 May 30;395(10238):1715-1725. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30854-0.
Policy
Pimenta, Yates, Pagel, Gurdasani, “Delaying the second dose of covid-19 vaccines”, BMJ, 372:n710, 2021
Pagel, “Covid-19: How to break the cycle of lockdowns”, BMJ Opinion, https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/27/covid-19-how-to-break-the-cycle-of-lockdowns/ , Jan 2021
Gugushvili A, Koltai J, Stuckler D, McKee M. Votes, populism, and pandemics. Int J Publ Health 2020: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-020-01450-y
McKee M, Gugushvili A, Koltai J, Stuckler D. Are Populist Leaders Creating the Conditions for the Spread of COVID? Int J Health Pol Management 2020: doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2020.124
Anderson M, McKee M, Mossialos E. Developing a sustainable exit strategy for COVID-19: health, economic and public policy implications. J Roy Soc Med 2020; 113(5): 176–178
Forman R, Atun R, McKee M, Mossialos E. 12 Lessons Learned from the Management of the Coronavirus Pandemic. Health Policy 2020; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.05.008
McKee M. A European roadmap out of the COVID-19 pandemic. BMJ 2020; 369: m1556
Anderson M, McKee M, Mossialos E. Covid-19 exposes weaknesses in European response to outbreaks. BMJ 2020;368:m1075
Alwan NA, Burgess RA, Ashworth S, Beale R, Bhadelia N, Bogaert D, Dowd J, Eckerle I, Goldman LR., Greenhalgh T, Gurdasani D, Hamdy A, Hanage WP., Hodcroft EB., Hyde Z, Kellam P, Kelly-Irving M, Krammer F, Lipsitch M, McNally A, McKee M, Nouri Ali, Pimenta Dominic, Priesemann V, Rutter H, Silver J, Sridhar D, Swanton C, Walensky RP, Yamey G, Ziauddeen H. Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now. Lancet 2020: https://doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(20)32153-X
McKee M. Achieving zero covid is not easy, but the alternative is far worse. BMJ 2020;371:m3859
Yates T, Zaccardi F, Razieh C, Gillies CL, Rowlands A, Kloecker DE, Chudasama YV, Davies MJ, Khunti K. Framework to aid analysis and interpretation of on-going COVID-19 research. Preprint from Wellcome Open Res, 04 Sep 2020.DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16227.1
Barclay W, Bird W, Brayne C, Brightling C, Chalmers J, Clark T, Clarkson J,Corner J, Cubbon M, De Lusignan S,Dunning J, Field N, Ghani A, Grenfall B, Hayward A, Hort M, Hotopf M, Johnson A, Khunti K et al . Preparing for a challenging winter 2020/21.The Academy of Medical Sciences.14 July 2020.
Nazareth J, Minhas SJ, Jenkins DR, Sahota A, Khunti K, Haldar P, Pareek M. Early lessons from a Second COVID-19 Lockdown in Leicester, UK. Lancet 2020 Jul. 396(10245):e4-e5.Doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31490-2.
Hartmann-Boyce J, Morris E, Goyder C, Kinton J, Perring J, Nunan D, Mahtani K, Buse JB, Del Patro S, Ji L, Roussel R, Khunti K. Diabetes and COVID-19: Risks, Management, and learnings From other National Disasters. Diabetes Care 2020 Aug.43 (8):1695-1703. DOI: 10.2337/dc20-1192.
The Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). Disparities in the impact of COVID-19 in Black and Minority Ethnic populations: review of the evidence and recommendations for action. July 3rd 2020. https://www.independentsage.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Independent-SAGE-BME-Report_02July_FINAL.pdf (Report)
King A, Costello A, Friston K, Khunti K, Mckee M,Michie S,Pagel C, Haque Z,Pillay D,Pittard A,Pollock A,Scally G.COVID-19: what are the options for the UK? Recommendations for government based on an open and transparent examination of the scientific evidence.The Independent Sage Report 2020 May 12. https://www.independentsage.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/The-Independent-SAGE-Report.pdf(Report)
Tolu Oni, Lisa K. Micklesfield, Pamela Wadende, Charles O. Obonyo, James Woodcock, Ebele R. I. Mogo, Feyisayo A. Odunitan-Wayas, Felix Assah, Lambed Tatah, Louise Foley, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Divya Bhagtani, Amy Weimann, Camille Mba, Nigel Unwin, Anna Brugulat-Panés, Karen J. Hofman, Joanne Smith, Marshall Tulloch-Reid, Agnes Erzse, Maylene Shung-King, Estelle V. Lambert & Nicholas J. Wareham (2020) Implications of COVID-19 control measures for diet and physical activity, and lessons for addressing other pandemics facing rapidly urbanising countries, Global Health Action 2020;13:1, DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2020.1810415
Airhihenbuwa C, Iwelunmor J, Munodawafa D, Ford C, Oni T, Agyemang C, et al. Culture Matters in Communicating the Global Response to COVID-19. Prev Chronic Dis 2020;17:200245. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd17.200245
McKee M, Stuckler D. Scientific divisions on covid-19: not what they might seem. BMJ 2020;371:m4024
Modelling
Daunizeau, J., Moran, R., Brochard, J., Mattout, J., Frackowiak, R., & Friston, K. (2020). Modelling lockdown-induced secondary COVID waves in France. medRxiv.
Daunizeau, J., Moran, R. J., Mattout, J., & Friston, K. (2020). On the reliability of model-based predictions in the context of the current COVID epidemic event: impact of outbreak peak phase and data paucity. medRxiv.
Friston, K., Costello, A., & Pillay, D. (2020). Dark matter, second waves and epidemiological modelling. medRxiv.
Friston, K. J., Parr, T., Zeidman, P., Razi, A., Flandin, G., Daunizeau, J., . . . Price, C. J. (2020a). Effective immunity and second waves: a dynamic causal modelling study [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 1 not.
Friston, K. J., Parr, T., Zeidman, P., Razi, A., Flandin, G., Daunizeau, J., . . . Price, C. J. (2020b). Second waves, social distancing, and the spread of COVID-19 across America. arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.13017.
Friston, K. J., Parr, T., Zeidman, P., Razi, A., Flandin, G., Daunizeau, J., . . . Price, C. J. (2020c). Testing and tracking in the UK: A dynamic causal modelling study. Wellcome Open Research, 5(144), 144.
Moran, R. J., Billig, A. J., Cullen, M., Razi, A., Daunizeau, J., Leech, R., & Friston, K. J. (2020). Using the LIST model to Estimate the Effects of Contact Tracing on COVID-19 Endemic Equilibria in England and its Regions. medRxiv.
Moran, R. J., Fagerholm, E. D., Cullen, M., Daunizeau, J., Richardson, M. P., Williams, S., . . . Friston, K. J. (2020). Estimating required’lockdown’cycles before immunity to SARS-CoV-2: model-based analyses of susceptible population sizes,’S0′, in seven European countries, including the UK and Ireland [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Wellcome Open Research, 5.
Parr, T., Bhat, A., Zeidman, P., Goel, A., Billig, A. J., Moran, R., & Friston, K. J. (2020). Dynamic causal modelling of immune heterogeneity. arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.08411.
Testing and Tracing
Crozier A, Rajan S, McKee M. Fixing England’s COVID-19 response: learning from international experience. J Roy Soc Med 2020: DOI: 10.1177/0141076820965533
Andersson M, Low N, French N, Greenhalgh T, Jeffery K, Brent A, Ball J, Pollock A, McCoy D, Iturriza-Gomara M, Buchan I, Salisbury H, Pillay D, Irving W. Rapid roll out of SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing-a concern. BMJ. 2020 Jun 24;369:m2420.
Rajan S, Cylus J, McKee M. What do countries need to do to implement effective ‘find, test, trace, isolate, support’ systems? J Roy Soc Med 2020; 113: 245-50
International experience
Han E, Tan MMJ, Turk E, Sridhar D, Leung GM, Shibuya K, Asgari N, Oh J, García-Basteiro AL, Hanefeld J, Cook AR, Hsu LY, Teo YY, Heymann D, Clark H, McKee M, Legido-Quigley H. Lessons learnt from easingCOVID-19 restrictions: an analysis of countries in Asia Pacific and Europe. Lancet 2020: https://doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(20)32007-9
McKee M. Learning from success: how hasHungary responded to the COVID pandemic? GeroScience 2020: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-020-00240-x
Han E, Chiou ST, McKee M, Legido-Quigley H. The resilience of Taiwan’s health system to address the COVID-19 pandemic. EClinicalMedicine. 2020 Jun 27:100437.
Oh J, Kavanagh MM, Gottschalk K, Subramanian SV, Shibuya K, Hirschhorn LR, Alonso C, Torres I, Awoonor-Williams K, Minh HV, Bawah AA, Tran H, Kachur SP, Sáenz R, Barrios OA, Kwon S, Nam EW, Choi JW, Lee J-K, McKee M, Gostin LO. Announcement of launching the JGHS Commission on COVID-19 Response. J Global Health Science 2020; 2: e20
Boccia S, Ricciardi W, McKee M, Cascini F. How the Italian NHS is fighting against the COVID-19 emergency. Frontiers Public Health 2020: doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00167
Flear M, de Ruijter A, McKee M. Coronavirus shows how UK must act quickly before being shut out of Europe’s health protection systems. BMJ 2020; 368:m400
Murphy A, Abdi Z, Harirchi I, McKee M, Ahmadnezhad E. Economic sanctions and Iran’s capacity to respond to COVID-19. Lancet PublHealth 2020: doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30083-9
Legido-Quigley H, Mateos-Garcia JT, Regulez Campos V, Gea-Sanchez M, Muntaner C, McKee M.The resilience of the Spanish health system against the COVID-19 pandemic. Lancet Publ Health 2020: doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30060-8
Wider impacts
Shanks S, Van Schalkwyk MCI, McKee M. Covid-19 exposes the UK’s broken foodsystem. BMJ 2020; 370: m3085
Toffolutti V, McKee M, Stuckler D. Is theCOVID-19 pandemic turning into a European food crisis? Eur J Publ Health 2020; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckaa101
Douglas M, Katikireddi SV, Taulbut M, McKee M, McCartney G. How can we protect against the wider health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic response? Social distancing may cause significant adverse effects on health inequalities. BMJ 2020; 369: m1557
Nazareth J, Khunti K, Pareek M. We must rapidly learn lessons from Leicester’s lockdown to prevent further outbreaks. 2020 July 10. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/10/we-must-rapidly-learn-lessons-from-leicesters-local-lockdown-to-prevent-further-outbreak (Blog)
Taibat Lawanson, Louise Foley, Felix Assah, Ebele Mogo, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Toluwalope Ogunro, Victor Onifade & Tolu Oni (2020) The urban environment and leisure physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a view from Lagos, Cities & Health, DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2020.1806459
Franz Gatzweiler, Bojie Fu, Celine Rozenblat, Huey-Jen Jenny Su, Isaac Luginaah, Jason Corburn, Jo Ivey Boufford, Juan Vela Valdes, Blaise Nguendo-Yongsi, Philippa Howden-Chapman, R. B. Singh, Rachel Cooper, Tolullah Oni & Yong-Guan Zhu (2020) COVID-19 reveals the systemic nature of urban health globally, Cities & Health, DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2020.1763761
COVIDSurg Collaborative. Elective surgery cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic: global predictive modelling to inform surgical recovery plans. Br J Surg. 2020 May 12:10.1002/bjs.11746.
Other
Budd J, Miller BS, Manning EM, Lampos V, Zhuang M, Edelstein M, Rees G, Emery VC, Stevens MM, Keegan N, Short MJ, Pillay D, Manley E, Cox IJ, Heymann D, Johnson AM, McKendry RA. Digital technologies in the public-health response to COVID-19. Nat Med. 2020 Aug;26(8):1183-1192.
Sassano M, McKee M, Ricciardi W, BocciaS. Transmission of infections at large sports gatherings: a surprising gap in our knowledge Frontiers Public Health 2020; 7: 277
Kentikelenis A, Gabor D, Ortiz I, Stubbs T, McKeeM, Stuckler D. Softening the blow of the pandemic: will the IMF and WorldBank make things worse? Lancet Global Health 2020: doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30135-2
Demirjian A, Singh C, Tebruegge M, Herbert R, Draz N, Mirfenderesky M, Jones V, Hinstridge P, Seneviratne R, Myers R, Ellis J, Miah S, Meadows CI, Kenny J, Alonso A, Handforth J, Perkins S, Butler M, Blackburn F, Douthwaite S, Pillay D, Chand M, Zambon M. Probable Vertical Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2020 Sep;39(9):e257-e260.
van Tulleken C, Wright C, Brown A, McCoy D, Costello A. Marketing of breastmilk substitutes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lancet. 2020 Oct 8:S0140-6736(20)32119-X. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32119-X.