UK local authorities that experience sustained high levels of COVID-19 are described as areas of enduring prevalence. This research, from Theme 3 of the PROTECT NCS, and published on Research Square, was carried out to investigate reasons for sustained high...
COVID-19 pandemic mitigations have had a profound impact on workplaces, however, multisectoral comparison of how work-related mitigations were applied across different phases of the pandemic are limited. This pre-print paper by PROTECT theme 3 researchers and...
This review, by PROTECT Theme 3 researchers and published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, aimed to provide an overview of the literature assessing the extent of COVID-19 transmission in the food processing sector along with...
This pre-print paper by PROTECT theme 3 researchers and the Virus Watch community cohort study, investigates how occupational differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection risk has changed over time, and includes updated data from the Omicron wave in England and Wales. Most...
The COVID-19 Job Exposure Matrix (JEM), has been developed to categorise occupations according to workplace factors believed to be associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19.This pre-print paper, published by Theme 3 researchers of the the...
Interventions to promote the wearing of face coverings if required in the future can only be developed if we know why people do or do not wear them. In this paper, published in the British Journal of Heath Psychology, researchers from Theme 3 of PROTECT assess public...
The need to protect workers from COVID-19 is a persistent issue with debate around the degree to which SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs in the workplace and which occupations are most affected, with calls for COVID-19 to be classified as an occupational disease....
This study aimed to describe the proportion of deaths from Covid-19 in a range of occupational groups, how those proportions compare to a ‘non-essential’ worker group, and whether the proportionate odds have changed over the pandemic (January 2020 – October 2021), in...
Occupational disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake can impact the effectiveness of vaccination programmes and introduce particular risk for vulnerable workers and those with high workplace exposure.This pre-print paper by PROTECT theme 3 researchers and the Virus...
This paper, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, produced by researchers from Theme 1 of the PROTECT COVID-19 National Core Study, discusses workplace-related outbreaks of COVID-19. The manufacturing sector presents a...
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