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Seminar: Anthropology Reckons with Covid-19: Diagnosis, Testing and Global Health, 27th November 2020

In this seminar we draw on our research into diagnostic testing during and after the West Africa Ebola outbreak, for Neglected Tropical Diseases, and for COVID-19, to sketch out possible directions for an anthropology of testing. Anthropological approaches to technology, medicine and society, we argue, prompt us to pose fundamental questions about who, and what, […]

amourad 30th November 2020 0

Webinar: Testing and Trust, 30th October 2020- Dr Alice Street and Dr Shona Lee

Testing and Trust is a rapid qualitative study investigating public understandings, expectations and experiences of Covid-19 testing in Lothian, Scotland and how testing strategies influence public trust in health services and government response. The study is being led by the DiaDev project team at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Science, and […]

amourad 9th November 2020 0

Trust and Uncertainty in Public Health Emergencies: The Social Life of Covid, 8th October 2020-Dr Alice Street

Testing capacity has taken centre stage of the international response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the epidemic curve has peaked and dipped, so have the meanings and value of testing been dramatically expanded beyond medical and public health uses to include such purposes as restarting economies or regaining intimacy with loved ones. Effective testing strategies […]

amourad 9th November 2020 0

Corona Testing on Twitter workshop report 22–23 June – Shona Lee

How can Twitter data be used to “tease out” relational figurations of testing beyond the laboratory? #Locations #Devices #Relations:‘Corona Testing on Twitter’ workshop report 22–23 June. Written by Shona Lee, DiaDev Research Fellow. Over 22–23 June, in collaboration with King’s College London Department of Digital Humanities and the Public Data Lab, the Centre for Interdisciplinary […]

Testing Trust Team 13th July 2020 0

University of Edinburgh launches a blog publishing research on COVID-19 from across the arts, humanities and social sciences

University of Edinburgh launches a blog publishing research on COVID-19 from across the arts, humanities and social sciences https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/covid19perspectives/

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Coronavirus: Why mass testing of the public is vital – Dr Alice Street

A nurse takes a swab at a Covid-19 drive-through testing station for NHS staff (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) The social value of testing has been ignored by public health responses to the Covid-19 outbreak, writes Dr Alice Street We now know that testing is essential to our ability to limit the scale and […]

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Experts assess public mood on Covid-19 testing

Shona Lee 29th June 2020 0

SPS study investigates public understandings, expectations and experience of Covid-19 testing in Scotland

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Airmen from the 18th Medical Group conduct COVID-19 testing at Kadena Air Base, Japan, March 20. Under the most current guidance from the Centers for Disease Control, the 18 MDG has increased its testing for the disease. Those who are tested become Persons Under Investigation (PUI), are contacted by Public Health, placed into isolation and instructed on how to avoid spread of their illness to family members in the home. Public Health interviews the PUI and develops a list of “close contacts” who are then called and given instructions to quarantine for 14 days. A close contact is someone who lived with or cared for a PUI, had direct physical contact with a PUI, or shared eating utensils or had prolonged close conversation with a PUI. On average, lab results take 2-5 days to return. If results are negative, isolated and quarantined individuals will be notified and released. If results come back positive, quarantine for the close contact will continue for 14 days and isolation for the PUI will continue until the PUI is medically cleared. Someone who has had contact with someone deemed a close contact does not need to be placed in quarantine but should continue to practice social distancing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Mandy Foster)

Welcome to the Testing Trust blog

This site contains information and outputs for the project ‘Building trust in a global pandemic: public perceptions, expectations and experiences of COVID-19 testing in Lothian, Scotland‘. This research is funded by the Chief Scientist’s Office’s Rapid Research in Covid -19 programme (RARC-19 programme). The study is being conducted by members of the School of […]

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