Evidence informing the UK's COVID-19 public health response must be transparent

Abstract

Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website.Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre -including this research content -immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

COVID-19: extending or relaxing distancing control measures

“…Such models and projections should be made available in the public domain without delay to inspire public trust and allow wider potentially beneficial input. 9 We need co-ordinated national and global efforts to rapidly model solutions to the grave predicament we now find ourselves in.…”

Preparedness and proactive infection control measures of Pakistan during COVID-19 pandemic outbreak

“…Cultural, entertainment, religious, sports, leisure venues (restaurants, malls, parks, recreational squares, beaches and gyms), social gathering places, mass public-transport system closure, and closing of other institutions could have significant impact on people's lives in the quarantine and lockdown period. 2 Pakistan need coordinated national and global efforts to bring empirical data on indigenized level to solve the grave predicament of lockdown and correlated factors with it. This paper presents a proactive infection control measure approach for immediate prevention against all systems outbreaks due to overwhelmed responses from Pakistani population.…”

Workforce Survival: Tracking Potential COVID-19 Exposure Amid Socioeconomic Activities Using Automatic Log-Keeping Apps

“…With an increasing number of countries reporting rising numbers of infections and state emergencies, [9][10][11][12] the aforementioned dilemma between COVID-19 epidemic control and socioeconomic activities begs for serious attention and solution. Impossible as it appears, this backtracking task is inevitable in order for sufficient public health measures to be taken in a dynamic background of travel and contact, against an easily spread, long-incubating virus such as COVID-19.…”