Community participation is crucial in a pandemic

Type Journal Article Author Cicely Marston Author Alicia Renedo Author Sam Miles URL https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(20)31054-0.pdf Series The Lancet Comment Volume 395 Publication The Lancet / DEPTH Research Group, Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Date 04/05/2020 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(20)31054-0 Language en Abstract Community participation is essential in the collective response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), from compliance with lockdown, to the steps that need to be taken as countries ease restrictions,to community support through volunteering.Commu-nities clearly want to help: in the UK, about 1 million people volunteered to help the pandemic response1and highly localised mutual aid groups have sprung up all over the world with citizens helping one another with simple tasks such as checking on wellbeing during lockdowns