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MRC COVID-19 response: interim report

A summary of eight strands of MRC-led aspects of the UKRI COVID-19 response, documenting the main activities and identifying the resulting impacts and insights.

• From: MRC
• Published: 5 July 2021

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COVID-19 response interim report: January 2020 to March 2021

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Details

This interim report documents the main activities undertaken by the MRC in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic from January 2020 to March 2021. A final report is expected to be produced in 2022.

The report looks at discrete aspects of MRC’s work:

• impacts arising from COVID-19 research
• strategic activities
• funding response to the pandemic
• response from the MRC community of major investments
• existing knowledge platforms
• response implications for MRC resources
• impediments to research progress during the first year of the pandemic.

Further information and links to related material are given in the annexes to the report.