Our Research Fellows speak about topics such as news avoidance, trust, misinformation, local news, and polarisation.
Members of the media are New York City, U.S. April 28, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Wednesday 26 May 2021
As the 71st annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) unfolds online, we share the titles and abstracts of the talks prepared by the members of our research team. Attendees can find the talks by logging in to the conference platform.
Much of the work presented at ICA is work in progress, and some of the details contained in abstracts may have changed since they were submitted in November 2020.
Novel natural compounds may help treat COVID-19, study suggests
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) of devastating proportions. The global outbreak of COVID-19 has already cost millions of deaths and, while vaccine rollouts have gotten well underway, the end of the pandemic is far from certain.
New and more infectious variants of SARS-CoV-2 that have shown potential to resist neutralization by antibodies elicited by older strains and the vaccines now being administered, threaten the ability to stop the spread of the virus definitively. Thus, the rapid development of effective, safe and targeted treatments for those who become severely unwell remains as important as ever.