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New study will show how efforts to tackle coronavirus can inadvertently cause shame and stigma
Researchers will identify examples of shame, shaming, stigma and discrimination during the first 12 months of the pandemic in the UK, particularly those found online.
Experts have begun a major new study to understand how public health efforts to tackle coronavirus can inadvertently cause shame and discrimination.
Interventions such as having to isolate, regional lockdowns and the use of facemasks have been a feature of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a danger the stigma sometimes associated with these interventions can make them less effective, and worsen health inequalities.