{"id":128703,"date":"2021-07-12T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T10:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=128703"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:43","slug":"corona-science-exposes-social-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/07\/12\/corona-science-exposes-social-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Corona science exposes social issues\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the course of the corona pandemic, scientists from a wide range of disciplines are researching the impact of the virus, whether it be medical, social or economic. They talked about their research in the series ‘Corona science’. What was the most important lesson? “Research on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed social issues.”<\/p>\n

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Last year, Ferayed Hok and Julia Schipper interviewed twenty academics about their 'corona science'.<\/span><\/p>

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Medical student Ferayed Hok and IBCoM student Julia Schipper both work as journalists for EM<\/em>. During the pandemic they interviewed scientists conducting research into the impact of Covid-19. They share what they found most noteworthy and the lessons learned from more than a year of \u2018corona science\u2019.<\/p>\n

What research left a lasting impression on you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ferayed: \u201cThe research carried out by Carin Uyl-de Groot<\/a> (professor of Health Technology Assessment). She discovered the number of cancer diagnoses dropped by the thousands during the pandemic. Access to physicians was more restricted, and consults in hospitals were postponed or had to take place through video calls. This resulted in numerous missed diagnoses. Of course there wasn\u2019t suddenly a reduction in the number of cancer patients. The ramifications of this will be felt in the coming years, both by the patients and in terms of healthcare costs. Because the longer it takes to diagnose cancer, the smaller the chance of successfully treating it. That was the first time I became aware of the flip side of Covid-19 measures: in spite of the intense focus on the healthcare system, at the same time, there was a serious failure in the same sector. On the one hand you\u2019re saving lives, but on the other hand, more people will die due to other diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n

Julia: \u201cIn my case it wasn\u2019t any one particular study, but more the personal motives of the scientists that struck me the most. I noticed that many scientists were strongly motivated to contribute solutions to the Covid-19 crisis. The virus is so devastating. I spoke with 2 international scientists who had both lost their mothers to Covid-19 and couldn\u2019t return to their families during that period. That gave their research a very personal overtone. Because there was nothing else they could do, they hoped they could still contribute in some way through their research.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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