The Power of a Good Example: Nicaragua and the Covid Response
In this podcast, CG steering committee member Toby Green talks with John Perry, contributor to the London Review of Books, FAIR and other publications on Nicaraguan affairs. Perry gives the perspective of the pandemic response in Nicaragua and Honduras, 2 neighboring countries in Central America. Honduras’s neoliberal government followed the dominant lockdown policy, with harsh […]
Making (Historical) Sense of the Covid Response
In this CG conversation, Daniel Hadas talks to Caitjan Gainty about how the history of medicine and healthcare can illuminate our attempts to analyse and understand the Covid response. Set in the UK but branching out globally, the conversation winds through some of the thorniest of Covid era issues. For example, vaccines and mandates look […]
The Ethics and Reality of Kenya's Covid Policy
Dr Reginald Oduor, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Nairobi, discusses Kenya’s experience of lockdowns and vaccine mandates with Collateral Global SAB member Toby Green of King’s College, London. The impact of the lockdowns on civil rights, the poor, education, and health are discussed – as also the impacts that this might have […]
Covid & the Humanities
What could humanities scholars have to say about Covid? Here Caitjan Gainty, a historian of medicine and healthcare at King’s College London, discusses the Covid response with her colleague Daniel Hadas, a lecturer in Latin and Ancient Greek. In the Covid response, governments and public health authorities opted to sideline the knowledge and discourse of […]
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The Infectious Diseases We Don't Seem to Care About
Childhood vaccination disruptions illustrate how detached from reality, rationality, & morality response measures have become.
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The Elderly and the Pandemic Response
We must mind the gap between reasonable restrictions and state paternalism
Interview with Dr. Reginald M.J. Oduor on Covid-19 Measures in Kenya
Professor Toby Green speaks with University of Nairobi lecturer Dr. Reginald M.J. Oduor on the impact of Covid-19 measures in Kenya
Q&A with Filmmakers Abeer Khan and Kunal Purohit
Q&A with the filmmakers of CG's newest film 'Sex Workers in India: The Impact of Lockdowns'
Why are we the academic oddballs?
Professors Ellen Townsend and Paul Dolan reflect on how they became ‘outlier voices’ during the pandemic.
Search our research archive for studies covering the impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown measures
Carl Heneghan & Tom Jefferson
ARTICLE - The UK Covid Response: A Stool with Three Legs
Carl Heneghan & Tom Jefferson
ARTICLE - The Covid care-homes scandal
David Livermore
ARTICLE – The Catastrophe of Zero Covid
Q&A with Dr Adu-Gyamfi on the impact of lockdowns in Ghana
Professor Toby Green and Dr Samuel Adu-Gyamfi discuss the catastrophic impacts Covid lockdown policies have had in Ghana
Vaccine Mandates: New Questions
Allyson Pollock, Carl Heneghan, and Paula Byrne discuss key policy questions around vaccine mandates
Mass Testing: Expensive, Chaotic, and Wasteful
Professor of Public Health Allyson Pollock discusses the pitfalls of mass PCR testing.
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UK Public Inquiry – Terms of Reference Response
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CG REPORT 8: Understanding Definitions and Reporting of Deaths Attributed to COVID-19 in the UK – Evidence from FOI Requests
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Lockdowns Crush Mental Health and Wellbeing in Young People
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A Betrayal of the Precautionary Principle
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VIDEO: Collateral Global Podcast Episode 3: Toby Green and Elsa Ofélia Sequeira Rodrigues
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Child Safeguarding Harms & The Pandemic Response
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CG REPORT 7: PCR Testing in the UK During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic – Evidence From FOI Requests
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2021 Collateral Global Impact Report
Published 9 Jan 2022 -
The Pandemic Response and the Myth of the Caring Society
Published 27 Dec 2021 -
Lockdown and Communication Changes are Leaving Many Disabled People Behind
Published 23 Dec 2021 -
EDITORIAL: Proportionality in Care Home Restrictions
Published 21 Dec 2021 -
CG REPORT 6 Q3: What explains excess mortality in care homes?
Published 19 Dec 2021 -
CG REPORT 6 Q2: How does mortality in care homes compare with pre-pandemic periods?
Published 19 Dec 2021 -
CG REPORT 6 Q1: What were mortality rates in care homes by country?
Published 19 Dec 2021 -
CG REPORT 6: Effects of COVID-19 in Care Homes – A Mixed Methods Review
Published 18 Dec 2021
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