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Notable RECOVER19 work and publication metrics
Peer-reviewed publication is not only a scholarly endeavour; as academics, we strive to have a positive impact on people’s lives. That often starts with making sure our results and observations are noticed. Today’s scientific journals use elaborate metrics to track the dissemination of published research, not the least in support of their publishers’ bragging rights.…
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An observatory for post-publication reviews of Covid-19 science
On the heels of the discrimination index manuscript outlined in our previous post, we also completed a manuscript about the prototype observatory designed to respond to published COVID-19 science, which was introduced in a post last year. We positioned this work in the broader context of assessing and improving the peer review system in scientific…
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A global index to measure the discrimination of “the unvaccinated”
Note: This manuscript has now been published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. As a side project of the COVID-19 country report cards and atlas research mentioned in an earlier post, our small team completed an article that attempts to quantify the discrimination experienced by unvaccinated citizens around the globe.…
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Collecting post-pandemic teaching materials and experiences
Academics who found themselves at odds with the dominant response to the COVID-19 pandemic continue to grapple with the perceived lack of debate of, and resistance against, authoritarian overreach at their own institutions of higher education. As post-secondary instructors, we are now giving renewed thought to the possibility and challenge of teaching critical thinking in…
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Responding to biased COVID science
As of 5 March 2024, a search of PubMed for “COVID-19” yields over 400,000 publications and the true number of scholarly articles, which dealt with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and were published in the last four years, might well be much higher. Unfortunately, many studies that influenced health policy-making and public opinion are flawed, as the…
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The impact of healthcare sector Covid-19 policies on access to care
In a third research area beside the governance of postsecondary campus policies and the scope of autoimmunity adverse events from the COVID-19 vaccines, RECOVER19 co-PI Dr. Claudia Chaufan also started a mixed-methods study “Examining the impact of healthcare sector Covid-19 policies on access to care in Ontario, Canada“. Details on the study’s context, research questions,…
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COVID-19 vaccines and autoimmune disorders
In addition to investigating the decision-making around pandemic campus policies, RECOVER19 co-PI Dr. Claudia Chaufan also examines drug safety and the medical and ethical side of the COVID-19 vaccines (Case Study 2). A protocol for a scoping review of evidence regarding “COVID-19 vaccines and autoimmune disorders” was first posted as a preprint in September and…
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The decision-making on post-secondary COVID-19 policies
RECOVER19 co-Principal Investigator Dr. Claudia Chaufan of York University has been driving the project’s Year 1 research. With respect to issues of governance in the COVID-19 pandemic response (Case Study 4), Claudia and her research staff recently published a critical scoping review protocol, which outlines their ongoing work towards “Appraising the decision-making process concerning COVID-19…
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Conference poster “The Pandemic Report Cards”
At this week’s conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe in Delft, Netherlands, Dr. Claus Rinner presented a poster titled “The Pandemic Report Cards – Context and Design Proposal for a World Atlas of COVID-19 Restrictions and Mandates”. The poster and associated two-page paper signal a starting point for the RECOVER19 grant’s…
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