Covid Matters
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- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 28
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2022
Social impact of Covid-19: how isolation affects health and wellbeing
In this episode of Covid Matters we speak to Dr Alexandra Burton, who as part of UCL’s massive COVID-19 Social Study – which has sent out over a million questionnaires – has been looking into the eff…
Covid-19 plunged millions into poverty and widened wealth inequalities
Thomas Lawson, Chief Executive of Turn2us, a UK national charity providing help to those who struggle financially, breaks down the causes of financial disparities due to the pandemic, the impact it h…
Scotland’s Covid Memorial: the role of art in collective recovery
Renowned Scottish artist and poet Alec Finlay has had an intimate knowledge of – and relationship with – chronic illness since he became ill with M.E. at 21, with it informing and shaping his work. I…
Employers need to recognise Long Covid – and workers to receive care
As a former consultant occupational physician, Clare Rayner has raised awareness of the need for employers to be educated about Long Covid and to take it seriously – and battled tirelessly for the ri…
The importance of telling our stories about life with coronavirus
The importance of sharing our own stories cannot be underestimated, and it was for that reason that it was so uplifting to speak to Ed Richardson from the Covid-19 Recovery Collective about their wor…
What’s been going on with our brains during lockdown?
For this episode of Covid Matters I was extremely fortunate to speak to Doctor Dean Burnett. He’s a neuroscientist, lecturer, author, blogger, podcaster, pundit, science communicator, comedian and nu…
My experience with Long Covid and understanding its effects on children
Produced by covid:aid, the UK’s new national COVID-19 charity, Covid Matters is a regular podcast in which experts speak to us about the key issues facing those affected by the pandemic. We are delig…
Dr Nisreen Alwan MBE on the battle to count Long Covid
In our first episode of the Covid Matters podcast, Dr Nisreen Alwan MBE speaks to us about Long Covid: what it is, the communal ignorance surrounding it and the long battle ahead.
Produced by covid:ai…