UCC on COVID-19 in The Conversation: News and Analysis

6 Jan 2022

The Conversation is an online news and anlysis platform that offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world.  UCC academics contribute expert insights and analysis on COVID-19 to this platform. 

Here's some of UCC contributions to conversations on the pandemic to date:

2021

• Calling children ‘vectors’ during COVID-19 is turning into discrimination

  Rebecca Adami, Stockholm University and Katy Dineen, University College Cork

• COVID vaccines for under-16s: why competent children in the UK can legally decide for themselves

  Helen Stalford, University of Liverpool; Aoife Daly, University College Cork, and Kerry Barry, University of Liverpool

• Why big pharma had a responsibility to profit from the pandemic

  Michael James Boland, University College Cork

• Seven modern philosophers to help us build a better world after the pandemic

  Vittorio Bufacchi, University College Cork

• How COVID-19 is likely to slow down a decade of youth development in Africa

  Wim Naudé, University College Cork

  COVID vaccines: why waiving patents won’t fix global shortage – scientist explains

  Anne Moore, University College Cork

• How are COVID-19 vaccines made? An expert explains

  Anne Moore, University College Cork

• We need hard science, not software, to power our post-pandemic recovery

  Wim Naudé, University College Cork

2020

• We are facing a difficult winter – but philosophy can help

  Katy Dineen, University College Cork

•  Pfizer vaccine final results: it’s highly protective – but how long for?

  Anne Moore, University College Cork

• Are viruses alive? Perhaps we’re asking the wrong question

  Hugh Harris, University College Cork

• Coronavirus linked to greater risk of life-threatening infection in people with obesity

  Paul MacDaragh Ryan, University College Cork and Noel Caplice, University College Cork

• Coronavirus: in Ireland hundreds of thousands have applied for government support – but is it enough?

  Joe Whelan, University College Cork

• Coronavirus: it feels like we are sliding into a period of unrest, but political philosophy offers hope

  Vittorio Bufacchi, University College Cork

• In defence of viruses

  Hugh Harris, University College Cork

• COVID-19: Nigeria should prioritise power supply to health care facilities

  Samuel Ayokunle Olówósejéjé, University College Cork

• Coronavirus and Spanish flu: economic lessons to learn from the last truly global pandemic

  Chris Colvin, Queen's University Belfast and Eoin McLaughlin, University College Cork

See all the latest from UCC on The Conversation website here.