COVID-19 Milestone Series Reproduced from the BMJ under a Creative Commons license (details below). First author: Kevin Bardosh et al. bardosh_kevin@hotmail.com Publication history Online issue publication May 26, 2022 Bardosh, K., de Figueiredo, A., Gur-Arie, R., Jamrozik, E., Doidge, J., Lemmens, T., … & Baral, S. (2022). The unintended consequences of COVID-19 vaccine policy: why mandates,Continue reading “The unintended consequences of COVID-19 vaccine policy: why mandates, passports and restrictions may cause more harm than good”
Category Archives: COVID-19
What the Health?
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Biden Declares the Pandemic ‘Over’ September 22, 2022 Podcast reproduced by permission, courtesy of KHN. DISCLAIMER: The republication of this podcast by the curator of ‘Curious About Behaviour’ is not an endorsement of the opinions expressed by any of the contributors. Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen onContinue reading “What the Health?”
Backlash against Public Health in the US
Originally published by KHN on December 15, 2020. Reproduced by permission. DISCLAIMER: The republication of this article by the curator of ‘Curious About Behaviour’ is not an endorsement of the opinions expressed by the contributors. The above picture shows Tisha Coleman, the public health administrator for Linn County, standing in front of her office Dec.Continue reading “Backlash against Public Health in the US”
The SAGE Secretive Seven
In keeping with best practice, members of government advisory groups are invited to declare their interests in any companies or organisations that could be interested in influencing decisions made by the group. Seven members of SAGE are revealed here as having interests in companies that they chose not to declare. Of course, human memory isContinue reading “The SAGE Secretive Seven”
Who Owns SAGE?
The UK’s government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) was established in 2020 to “provide scientific and technical advice to support government decision makers during emergencies”. The latest of these has been the COVID-19 pandemic. SAGE members are drawn from a spectrum of disciplines including epidemiology, immunology, pharmaceutics, public health, psychology, modelling and statistics. BeginningContinue reading “Who Owns SAGE?”
Fear is a basic emotion that is activated in response to perceived threat
COVID-19 Milestone Series This post republishes: “The four horsemen of fear: An integrated model of understanding fearexperiences during the COVID-19 pandemic” by Adriano Schimmenti, Joël Billieux and Vladan Starcevic Citation: Schimmenti, A., Billieux,J., Starcevic, V. (2020). The four horsemen of fear: An integrated model of understanding fear experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 17Continue reading “Fear is a basic emotion that is activated in response to perceived threat”
Fear of COVID-19
COVID-19 Milestone Series In previous posts, here and here, I have drawn attention to the role of functional fear in human responses to COVID-19 pandemic. For various imaginable reasons, the government’s policy advisors do not openly discuss the use of fear in public health interventions, yet it is obvious to any observer that increasing fearContinue reading “Fear of COVID-19”
Fear of Coronavirus
COVID-19 Milestone Series Original article published in: J Anxiety Disorders 2020 Aug; 74:102258. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102258. Epub 2020 Jun 10. Fear of the coronavirus (COVID-19): Predictors in an online study conducted in March 2020 Gaëtan Mertens 1, Lotte Gerritsen 2, Stefanie Duijndam 3, Elske Salemink 2, Iris M Engelhard 2 PMID: 32569905 PMCID: PMC7286280 DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102258 Abstract Fear is an adaptive response in the presence of danger. However, when threatContinue reading “Fear of Coronavirus”
The Fear Motive – Missing from the Model
Capability, opportunity, and motivation to enact hygienic practices in the early stages of theCOVID-19 outbreak in the United Kingdom COVID-19 Milestone Series Extract from the originally published article in the British Journal of Health Psychology (2020), 25, 856–864. Authors: Jilly Gibson Miller et al. Open Access. This is an open access article under the termsContinue reading “The Fear Motive – Missing from the Model”
Functional Fear Predicts Public Health Compliance in the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 Milestones Series Authors: Craig A. Harper, Liam P. Satchell, Dean Fido & Robert D. Latzman Originally published in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction (2021) 19:1875–1888: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-020-00281-5 “Functional Fear Predicts Public Health. Here I republish the first page (p. 1875) only. Abstract In the current context of the global pandemic of coronavirusContinue reading “Functional Fear Predicts Public Health Compliance in the COVID-19 Pandemic”
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