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Social Impacts of COVID-19 : Health

Nowadays it can feel like a distant memory, but the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound and persistent impact. 

Over the next few months we'll bring you research that reflects on this impact and the lessons to be learned, starting here with a focus on health and social care.

Access this collection of articles for free until 28 February 

Evidence & Policy

Making evidence and policy in public health emergencies: lessons from COVID-19 for adaptive evidence-making and intervention [Open Access]
Kari Lancaster, Tim Rhodes and Marsha Rosengarten

Global Discourse

Fear and the importance of race-based data in COVID-19 policy implementation
Leland Harper

International Journal of Care and Caring 

‘No one was clapping for us’: care, social justice and family carer wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales [Open Access]
Alina Schmitz, Nekehia T. Quashie, Melanie Wagner and Judith Kaschowitz

Of care, cure and the in-between: COVID-19 treatment in a New York City intensive care unit
Tobias Haeusermann, Heather Romero-Kornblum and Elizabeth Dzeng

The impact of physical distancing on socially vulnerable people needing care during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands [Open Access]
Daniel de Vries, Jeannette Pols, Amade M’charek and Julia van Weert

The struggle for good care: moral challenges during the COVID-19 lockdown of Dutch elderly care facilities
Wendy van der Geugten, Gaby Jacobs and Anne Goossensen

Cognition, care homes and COVID-19: sacrificing minds to keep bodies alive
Ginny Russell

Virtual care facing the COVID-19 outbreak in China
Jingxue Zhang , Minhui Yang and Zhen Sui

The California battle for health and safety for domestic workers
Eileen Boris

Inequalities in caregiving strain during the COVID-19 pandemic: conceptual framework and review of the empirical evidence 
Alina Schmitz, Nekehia T. Quashie, Melanie Wagner and Judith Kaschowitz

Journal of Psychosocial Studies 

Bodies on the line: how telepsychology brought about new relationalities between therapists and their clients during the COVID-19 pandemic
Leanne Downing

Voluntary Sector Review 

A fractured system: have existing problems in health and social care for visually impaired people been exacerbated by COVID-19?
Helen Doyle and Robert Cooper