As our COVINFORM project comes to an end we would like to take the opportunity to highlight some of our outputs. COVINFORM was put in place in November 2020 due to the unprecedented experiences of each and everybody with COVID-19. Due to the novelty of government,...
In Part A of this article, we introduced the COVINFORM Dashboard. We talked about how the Risk Assessment framework presented in the Dashboard is composed of four domains: Threat, Vulnerabilities, Consequences, and Resilience, and how each of these domains are composed of multiple ‘indicators’. In...
The COVINFORM project examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic across the EU and the UK. A key output of the project is the Risk Assessment Dashboard which allows users, such as researchers, academics and policymakers, to explore the COVINFORM Risk Score. The COVINFORM Risk Score...
How did EMS responders in different countries, positions, and life stages experience an unprecedented health crisis? In June and July 2023, COVINFORM partners Magen David Adom (MDA: https://www.mdais.org/en) and S.A.M.U.R. Proteccion Civil (SAMUR: https://www.madrid.es/samur) conducted participatory interventions to explore this question. Specifically, the partners organised workshops...
How did EMS responders in different countries, positions, and life stages experience an unprecedented health crisis? In June and July 2023, COVINFORM partners Magen David Adom (MDA: https://www.mdais.org/en) and S.A.M.U.R. Proteccion Civil (SAMUR: https://www.madrid.es/samur) conducted participatory interventions to explore this question. Specifically, the partners organised workshops...
When the first Corona cases occurred on the 25th of February 2020, alarm bells rang in the republic of Austria – and the government quickly contacted the Austrian Red Cross for help and support in managing the crisis. Austrian Red Cross is a big, nationwide...
Information seeking patterns may help to explain higher death tolls in COVID-19 in immigration dense areas in Sweden. Information gaps widens with language problems and weak identification with the majority society. During the first months of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, news media around the world focused...
Pandemics are nothing new, as Viktoria Adler and Diotima Bertel reminded us in this article. False and misleading information didn’t wait for the 21st century either. Long before we started talking about “fake news”, Daniel Defoe noted in his 1722 Journal of the Plague Year,...
