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• Address misinformation and mistrust to help tackle COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in healthcare workers, study suggests

  Date: 28/04/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/uk-reach-vaccine-hesitancy

  Addressing misinformation and mistrust, inclusive communication, involving healthcare workers in the vaccine rollout, and promoting vaccination...

• Leicester doctor and researcher listed in Forbes ‘30 under 30’

  Date: 23/04/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/forbes-30

  An infectious diseases doctor at Leicester’s Hospitals has been listed as one of Forbes’ ‘30 under 30’ in Europe in the field of Science and...

• COVID-19: New focus on indoor ventilation needed

  Date: 15/04/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/covid-19-airborne-transmission

  A group of leading virologists have expressed the need for improved indoor ventilation to combat airborne transmission of COVID-19.

• Deprivation is ‘driving’ Covid-19 ethnic disparities, claims new analysis

  Date: 01/04/2021 23:01:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/deprivation-driving-covid-19-ethnic-disparities

  Deprivation is ‘driving’ Covid-19 disparities among minority ethnic groups and could be considered the main cause of disproportionate infection...

• Study reveals seven in ten patients hospitalised with COVID-19 not fully recovered five months post-discharge

  Date: 24/03/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/covid-19-patients-not-fully-recovered

  The majority of survivors who left hospital following COVID-19 did not fully recover five months after discharge and continued to experience...

• Leicester’s Top 5 COVID research studies

  Date: 23/03/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/top-5-covid-research-studies

  One of the top ten Universities in the UK for COVID research has highlighted its top five research projects that have had a global impact.

• Pick up the pace! New study finds slow walkers four times more likely to die from Covid-19

  Date: 16/03/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/slow-walk-covid

  Slow walkers are almost four times more likely to die from COVID-19 and have over twice the risk of contracting a severe version of the virus,...

• Skin swabs could detect COVID-19

  Date: 16/03/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/skin-swabs

  COVID-19 could be detected through non-invasive skin swab samples, new research published by the Universities of Leicester, Surrey and Manchester...

• ‘Urgent help’ is required to drive down COVID-19 death rates among ethnic minority communities

  Date: 16/02/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/covid-19-among-ethnic-minorities

  The disproportionate rates of COVID-19 related deaths among people from ethnic minorities is ‘alarming’ and requires ‘urgent attention’...

• Leicester academic urges caution for international sports

  Date: 22/01/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/sport-covid

  A Leicester academic has urged further caution for international sports events taking place during the COVID-19 pandemic.