During this stage of the pandemic, managing local outbreaks is the key fight in controlling the spread of the virus.
Chaired by Dr Ebere Okereke, lead of Public Health England’s IHR Strengthening Project, this episode will feature Ivan Browne, the...
France has been heavily affected by the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic and went into lockdown on the 17 March 2020. Using models applied to hospital and death data, we estimate the impact of the lockdown and current population immunity. We find 3.6% of...
It’s tempting to try to construct a league table, but we’ll have to wait months, if not years, for the true picture, says statistician David Spiegelhalter
On the 21st of February 2020 a resident of the municipality of Vo, a small town near Padua, died of pneumonia due to SARS-CoV-2 infection. This was the first COVID-19 death detected in Italy since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Chinese city of...
China has an aging population with an increasing number of adults aged ≥ 60 years. Influenza causes a heavy disease burden in older adults, but can be alleviated by vaccination. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of a potential government-funded...
We visualized a cough to show how far respiratory droplets can spread. If you haven’t been keeping your distance to fight the coronavirus, this may persuade you.
Marc BaguelinA very informative simulation in @nytimes on the transmission of #coronavirus. Apply to other respiratory viruses too.
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My hospital’s makeshift ‘Covid zone’ is a surreal world where patients lie silent and a depleted staff complete herculean tasks, says junior doctor Shaan Sahota
Marc BaguelinA deeply moving testimony from Shaan Sahota a junior doctor in a #COVID19 ICU. "We talk of curves and peaks but that has nothing to do with lived experience."
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We are hiring! While many people of the department and some of the RSE group are focussed on COVID-19 at the moment, research and public health action on malaria, HIV, and other diseases continues in the department and we’re looking for someone to...
These early estimates give an indication of the fatality ratio across the spectrum
of COVID-19 disease and show a strong age gradient in risk of death.
In the night of February 20, 2020, the first case of novel coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) was confirmed in the Lombardy Region, Italy. In the week
that followed, Lombardy experienced a very rapid increase in the number of
cases. We analyzed the...
NIHR-funded PhD studentships in applied health protection research at LSHTM in collaboration with Public Health England
Modelling & Economics
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has been awarded three five-year grants from the...