Social science research tracker, learning from past pandemics and the importance of effective risk communication

As we all adjust to the new normal things can’t and won’t simply revert to a pre-COVID-19 world. Here in the UK we are only a few weeks into our new socially distant lives, blue Monday 2020 (January 18th) doesn’t somehow seem so depressing now. As Matt Reynolds of Wired has noted, ‘this is only the grim first act of the coronavirus crisis’. With this in mind, it is extremely important that we hear from experts right across the academic spectrum.