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Corona Research

COVID-19 - lessons learned and the way forward after the pandemic.

The pandemic has changed the world and research on COVID-19 continues to provide new insights. From the biology of the virus and the evolution of the vaccine to the social and economic impact of the pandemic, we are exploring everything. Together, we are building knowledge to face future health crises.

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News

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Department of Sociology

Elderly migrants in care settings faced higher Covid-19 death risk

Migrants from low-income countries living in care settings in Sweden were more likely to die from Covid-19 than people born in the country during the first year of the pandemic, according to a new study by researchers from Stockholm University, published in the European Journal of Public Health. The finding stands out, since elderly migrants in daily care usually have higher life expectancy than Swedish-born individuals in similar circumstances.

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Cover, new book. Comparing the place of experts during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic
Department of Romance Studies and Classics

New Book Release: "Comparing the Place of Experts during the First Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic"

The editors of the book, Christophe Premat, Jean-Michel De Waele, and Michel Perottino, bring together contributions from researchers exploring how experts were mobilized to justify difficult political decisions.

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Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism

Collaboration, reinvented tools and specialist knowledge. Professional crisis communication

Communication professionals have a paramount role in global crisis. What did they learn during the covid pandemic that could be used in future global crisis? In an article, Mats Landqvist and Mona Blåsjö identifies and analyzes strategy changes among communicators in municipalities and how their conceptions of communicated knowledge transformed during the pandemic.

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Department of Public Health Sciences

Migrants were hit harder by the pandemic

Higher mortality and more admissions to intensive care units. Many migrant groups in Sweden were hit harder than those born in Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the vaccine was crucial in reducing inequality. This is shown by a study by researchers at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, in collaboration with researchers from Stockholm University's Demographic Department (SUDA) and Karolinska Institutet. The study was recently published in the scientific journal Nature Communications.

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Department of Public Health Sciences

People with lower income were hit harder by the pandemic

The relationship between income and Covid-19-related intensive care changed drastically in Sweden during the pandemic. A new study from the Department of Public Health Sciences at Stockholm University shows examples of inequality in health and the importance of income differences with regards to how the pandemic affected people.

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Department of Public Health Sciences

Country of birth affects risk of dying in covid-19

Mikael Rostila, co-author of a new report from the Swedish Public Health Agency, appears at the national broadcaster SVT News, highlighting the disparity between residents born abroad and ethnic Swedes. Socio-economic factors such as low income and overcrowding are cited as the main reasons why those born abroad are hit harder.

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Limited transmission of COVID-19 from open schools but teachers were affected

Most countries introduced school closures during the spring of 2020 despite substantial uncertainty regarding the effectiveness in containing SARS-CoV-2. In Sweden, upper secondary schools moved online while lower secondary schools remained open. A comparison of parents with children in the final year of lower secondary and first year of upper secondary school shows that keeping the former open had limited consequences for the overall transmission of the virus. However, the infection rate doubled among lower secondary teachers relative to upper secondary ones.

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Research projects

Environmental Governance Post-Corona (EPOC)

The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a global health crisis. It is expected to lead to lasting changes in all policy areas of global cooperation and transnational governance – including health, mobility, trade, industry, finance, and sustainability.

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Fatigue cohort

Fatigue is anecdotally one of the most commonly reported and disabling symptoms after COVID-19 and is the cardinal symptom in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and exhaustion disorder (ED).

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Fight-nCoV

The consortium will establish in vitro and in vivo models to evaluate new antiviral compounds active against SARS-CoV-2. The aim is to develop broad-spectrum antivirals that can be administered locally to the nose and/or lungs.

Green resilience to crisis

The aims of the project are to assess the role of green and blue environments for health and resilience to effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and changes in behaviors.

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Patient and Public AI-assisted Interventions

With better descriptions of a patient’s state and history, more efficient recommendations can be provided. We explore how AI tools can be put to practical use in healthcare. We focus on complex and multimodal data and use cases such as COVID-19 public health interventions or patient phenotyping for adverse drug events, sepsis, or cancer.

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SWECOV: Swedish Register-based Research Project on COVID-19

SWECOV is the Swedish Register-based Research Project on COVID-19. SWECOV is a multidisciplinary research collaboration focused on using quantitative methods and comprehensive register data about the whole Swedish population to answer important questions about the consequences of the pandemic.

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Video Remote Interpreting (VRI)

Video Remote Interpreting (VRI): A study on Cognitive Load in Simultaneous and Dialogue Interpreting via video and interpreters' attitudes towards VRI in Sweden

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Research groups

Group Spetz

We are exploring basic mechanisms regarding a group of small non-coding oligonucleotides and their therapeutic potential. We have discovered that a set of single-stranded oligonucleotides temporarily inhibit certain endocytic pathways and thereby modulate innate immune responses as well as providing anti-viral effects.

Anna-Lena Spetz
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The Andreasson lab

In this lab, the focus is primarily on mechanisms in diseases with a large impact on quality of life where knowledge about disease mechanisms are lacking, such as disorders of gut-brain interaction (e.g. irritable bowel syndrome, IBS), fatigue (ME/CFS, exhaustion disorder and post-covid syndrome) and chronic pain.

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