COVID-19 publications

 

• Mills, M.C. & T. Rüttenauer (2021). The impact of mandatory COVID-19 certificates on vaccine uptake: Synthetic Control Modelling of Six Countries, medRxiv

• Ding, X., D.M. Brazel & M.C. Mills (2021). Factors affecting adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 infections in the first year of the pandemic in the UK, BMJ Open, 11: e054200.

• Dye, C. & M.C. Mills (2021). COVID-19 vaccination passports, Science, 371: 1184.

• Mills, M.C. & C. Dye. (2021). Twelve criteria for the development and use of COVID-19 vaccine passports. London: Royal Society.

• Aburto, JM et al, M.C. Mills (2021). Estimating the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, life expectancy and lifespan inequality in England and Wales: a population-level analysis, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 75(8): 735-740

• Aburto, J.M et al. (2021). Quantifying the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries, International Journal of Epidemiology, dyab207.

• Mills, M.C. & Sivelä, J. (2021). Should spreading anti-vaccine misinformation be criminalised? British Medical Journal, 372:n272.

• Jennings, W., et al. M.C.Mills (2021). Lack of Trust, Conspiracy Beliefs, and Social Media Use Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy, Vaccines, 9(6): 593.

• Razai, M.S. et al. (2021) COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: the five C’s to tackle behavioural and sociodemographic factors, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 01410768211018951

• Dowd, JB, et al. M.C. Mills (2020). Demographic Science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(18): 9696-98

• Block, P., Hoffman, M., Raabe, I.J., Dowd, J.B., Rahal, C., Kashyap, R. & M.C. Mills (2020). Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID-19 curve in a post-lockdown world, Nature Human Behaviour, 4: 588-596.

• Mills, M.C. & D. Salisbury. (2020). The challenges of distributing COVID-19 vaccinations, EClinicalMedicine, 100674.

• Mills, M.C., C. Rahal, D. Brazel, J. Yan and S. Gieysztor. (2020). Vaccine Deployment: Behaviour, ethics, misinformation and policy strategies. London: Royal Society.

• Mills, M.C., C. Rahal, E. Akimova. (2020). Face masks and coverings for the general public: Behavioural knowledge, effectiveness of cloth coverings and public messaging, London: Royal Society.

• Gaye, B. et al. (2020). Socio-demographic and epidemiological consideration of Africa’s COVID-19 response: what is the possible pandemic course? Nature Medicine. 26: 996-999.

• Verhagen, M.D., Brazel, D.M., Dowd, J.B., Kashnitksy, I. & M.C. Mills (2020). Forecasting spatial, socioeconomic and demographic variation in COVID-19 health care demand in England and Wales, BMC Medicine, 18: 203

• Dowd, J.B., P. Block, V. Rotondi & M.C. Mills (2020). Dangerous to claim “no clear association” between intergenerational relationships and COVID-19, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(42): 25975-25976.

• Mills, M.C. et al. (2020). Follow ‘the science’? Anders Tegnell’s and Swedish Public Health Agency’s evidence is in favour of recommending face coverings, OSF pre-print

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COVID-19 related opinion and commentaries by Melinda Mills: 

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• Covid passports could work – but coercion is doomed to fail, The Guardian, 02 August 2021.

• Why suggesting mandatory Covid vaccinations is an ethical minefield, The Guardian, 22 June 2021.

• Head to Head: Would Covid passports be damaging to public health? The Guardian, 07 April 2021.

• People struggle to assess risk, especially in a pandemic, Financial Times, 9 April 2021.

• Vaccine passports are a technical and ethical minefield, Financial Times, 26 February 2021.

• Trust and transparency vital to vaccine uptake, EasternEye, 3 December 2020

• We must prevent a vaccine ‘infodemic’ from fuelling the Covid pandemic, The Guardian, 11 November 2020

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