Ensuring you’re across the latest developments in the battle against the pandemic can be a struggle. Apolitical tries to keep you up to date. Here are four key recent developments you may have missed.

1. Hyland-Wood, B., Gardner, J., Leask, J.et al. Toward effective government communication strategies in the era of COVID-19. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 8,30 (2021). While there is no ‘one size fits all’ communications strategy for tackling something like the spread of Covid-19, some countries have fared better than others. This paper unpicks how those with lower case rates communicated risk to their population effectively.

2. Feng, L., Zhang, T., Wang, Q. et al. Impact of COVID-19 outbreaks and interventions on influenza in China and the United States. Nat Commun 12, 3249 (2021). The sole silver lining of the increased measures to tackle the spread of Covid-19 may be the decrease in flu transmission. This paper examines how non-pharmaceutical interventions like lockdowns lightened the flu load.

3. RE: Recovery and Covid-19 (many are Open Access) A slew of papers from Nature tackle the issue of how to recover from Covid-19. Taking the time to read these could help guide the bounceback within your country.

4. Vaccines — lessons from three centuries of protest by Julie Leask Immunisation has always been a proxy for wider fears about social control, a history reminds us. As the populace starts to question governmental measures, learn from the past about how to handle the future.

Have you read anything interesting about COVID-19 recovery lately? If so, please send it to discussion@apolitical.co

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