The UK, and other high-income countries, are experiencing substantial increases in living
costs. Several overlap** and intersecting economic crises threaten physical and mental …

Background Italy was the first European country to implement a national lockdown because
of the COVID-19 pandemic. Worldwide, this pandemic had a huge impact on the mental …

Sweden was well equipped to prevent the pandemic of COVID-19 from becoming serious.
Over 280 years of collaboration between political bodies, authorities, and the scientific …

Following publication, the Journal was made aware of readers' debate about this article. The
Journal received a number of Letters to the Editor and correspondence from readers. The …

Background People with chronic conditions are disproportionately prone to be affected by
the COVID-19 pandemic but there are limited data documenting this. We aimed to assess …

Background The concept of frailty provides an age-independent, easy-to-use tool for risk
stratification. We aimed to summarize the evidence on the efficacy of frailty tools in risk …

COVID-19 severely impacted world health and, as a consequence of the measures
implemented to stop the spread of the virus, also irreversibly damaged the world economy …

The number of reported coronavirus disease (COVID-19) deaths per 100,000 persons
observed so far in 2020 is described in 15 European countries and the USA as dependent …

Although some European countries imposed measures that successfully slowed the
transmission of Covid-19 during the first year of the pandemic, others struggled, either …

Background The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic led to substantial differences in
incidence rates across Germany. Methods Assumption-free k-nearest neighbour clustering …