The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly been a challenging period for many of us. But what has its impact on our mental health really been like? In the first few months of the crisis there were predictions that the pandemic would create a ‘tsunami’ of mental...
Population is exhausted and shows diminished trust in government, but also a high willingness to vaccinate On January 27, 2020, the first case of COVID-19 infection was registered in Germany. Since then, Germans have lived through three pandemic waves with approximately 4 million infected, and nearly...
With the COVID-19 outbreak, humanity had to adapt to a new era. New laws, rules and measures have been adopted for a fast and effective response towards the worldwide and multisectoral impact of the pandemic. However, even though all stakeholders have been engaged in assessing...
From the history of pandemics, we inherit important lessons for today's society struggling to cope with COVID-19. First, it confirms that global pandemics can have grave and potentially permanent unequal economic consequences. The local economic impact of a pandemic depends, not only on the quality...
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic stopped the world in its tracks. In May 2020, as Europe was coming out of the initial shock and acknowledging the impact of the new situation, the European Commission launched a funding call for research projects investigating the behavioural,...
The realisation that a year has passed since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe prompted many to think about the shortcomings of pandemic management by European governments. Projects such as COVINFORM are a part of the European Commission initiative to ensure that the...
The distribution of COVID-19 vaccines across the globe is far from fair. High-income countries currently hold a confirmed 4.6 billion doses of vaccines, compared to 1.5 billion doses by middle-income countries and 1.3 billion doses by lower-income countries. This lack of vaccine equity in the...
The first known case of COVID-19 in Romania was confirmed in Gorj County, on February 26, 2020. On March 12, the Romanian Ombudsman asked President Klaus Iohannis to declare the state of emergency and the Romanian Parliament to approve it. A year later, on February...
According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, less than 30% of the world’s researchers are women. Gender matters in research, however, both in terms of considering it as a topic and in female representation in science. This has been discussed in a long history of...
