ABSTRACT
When the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic started to bite in April 2020 and his hospital began to fill up with coronavirus patients for the first time, Professor Julian Barwell, a clinical geneticist, decided it was time to don his white coat and stethoscope again and go back onto the wards of his hospital. This is his first-hand story of what he found inside the hospital and how it changed his perception of what was happening in the outside world © John Mair, Tor Clark, Neil Fowler, Raymond Snoddy and Richard Tait 2021. All rights reserved.
ABSTRACT
Background: New data collection in established longitudinal population studies provides an opportunity for studying the risk factors and sequelae of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), plus the indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on wellbeing. The Extended Cohort for E-health, Environment and DNA (EXCEED) cohort is a population-based cohort (N>11,000), recruited from 2013 in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. EXCEED includes consent for electronic healthcare record (EHR) linkage, spirometry, genomic data, and questionnaire data.