Dr Roz Eggo
Rosalind Eggo - Assist Prof - Dynamic modelling, resp viruses, severe outcomes, EHRs, & optimising vaccines - Funding - Made &
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Is it safe to send kids back to school?
MIT Technology Review 11d 2 tweets
Covid-19 has been disruptive and bewildering for everyone, but especially for children. In the UK and in most US states, schools closed in March. Many of them will keep their doors shut until the fall. That’s six months without the normality of a...
IDD Jobs
Iddjobs.org 958d 20 tweets
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Dr Roz Eggo Thanks Adam! doesn't do collation, but takes submissions! 🙂 Do submit your open positions incl studentships to - they're auto-tweeted to our >3k followers, and listed until expiry. Adding jobs is fast at 3d
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Dr Roz Eggo Thanks Adam! doesn't do collation, but takes submissions! 🙂 Do submit your open positions incl studentships to - they're auto-tweeted to our >3k followers, and listed until expiry. Adding jobs is fast at 3d
IDD Jobs
Iddjobs.org 681d 3 tweets
Find infectious disease dynamics modelling jobs, studentships, and fellowships.
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Dr Roz Eggo Thanks Adam! doesn't do collation, but takes submissions! 🙂 Do submit your open positions incl studentships to - they're auto-tweeted to our >3k followers, and listed until expiry. Adding jobs is fast at 3d
The Discomfort of Death Counts: Mourning through the Distorted Lens of Reported COVID-19 Death Data
Patterns 18d 2 tweets
In data science, there’s long been an acknowledgment of the way data can flatten and dehumanize the people they represent. This limitation becomes most obvious when considering the pure inability of such numbers and figures to truly capture the...
Age-dependent effects in the transmission and control of COVID-19 epidemics
Nature Medicine 25d 19 tweets
A new epidemiological study shows reduced susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 and decreased risk of developing severe symptoms in people aged younger than 20 years, suggesting that children have limited contribution to spread of COVID-19.
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Dr Roz Eggo New paper out finding lower SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility in children. We found that children were about half as susceptible to infection as adults, and were less likely to show symptoms if infected. Colours are countries, grey is the consensus fit. 25d
Estimates suggest one in five people worldwide have an underlying health condition that could increase their risk of severe COVID-19 if infected | LSHTM
LSHTM 25d 2 tweets
An estimated 1.7 billion people, 22% of the world population, have at least one underlying health condition that could increase their risk of severe COVID-19 if infected, according to a modelling study that uses data from 188 countries, published in...
Global, regional, and national estimates of the population at increased risk of severe COVID-19 due to underlying health conditions in 2020: a modelling study
The Lancet Global Health 26d 11 tweets
About one in five individuals worldwide could be at increased risk of severe COVID-19, should they become infected, due to underlying health conditions, but this risk varies considerably by age. Our estimates are uncertain, and focus on underlying...
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Dr Roz Eggo New paper out, quantifying the global distribution of people at increased risk and high risk of severe COVID-19. Using GBD estimates of age and sex-stratified underlying disease prevalences we we find ~1 in 5 at increased risk. 25d
We’re hiring engineers!
EBM DataLab 30d 11 tweets
We are the DataLab, at the University of Oxford, led by Dr Ben Goldacre. We are a small, productive, very fast-moving team of software developers, academics, and clinicians, all pooling skills and …
Black Lives Matter | LSHTM
LSHTM 32d 1 tweets
Statement from Peter Piot In my nearly ten years as Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), it is hard to imagine a more challenging and important time. In the last two weeks, the global scourge that is racism has...
Without public faith in government actions, the UK will never beat Covid-19 | Liam Smeeth
the Guardian 33d 4 tweets
As a scientist, it’s clear to me that the collective action vital to success relies on leaders being honest about their strategy, says epidemiologist Liam Smeeth
The impact of COVID-19 control measures on social contacts and transmission in Kenyan informal settlements
CMMID Repository 34d 2 tweets
We analyse social contact data from Kenyan informal settlements to estimate if COVID-19 control measures have affected disease transmission, and economic and food security
Lancet
Thelancet.com 520d 10 tweets
Effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 cases, deaths, and demand for hospital services in the UK: a modelling study
The Lancet Public Health 38d 12 tweets
The characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 mean that extreme measures are probably required to bring the epidemic under control and to prevent very large numbers of deaths and an excess of demand on hospital beds, especially those in ICUs.
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Dr Roz Eggo Local interventions likely to be useful. We've had locally-triggered interventions in the model since March. 12d
Superspreading and the Gini Coefficient
Staff.math.su.se 41d 1 tweets
Abstract:
Covid-19: Temporal variation in transmission during the COVID-19 outbreak
Covid-19 84d 13 tweets
Covid-19: Contributors
Covid-19 43d 1 tweets
Project contributors
Inside knowledge on freedom from the shackles of lockdown
Lens: Pioneering research stories, commentary and opinion told by leading academics – Monash Univers 52d 1 tweets
As we emerge from lockdown restrictions, balancing eagerness and anxiety, what lessons can be learned from former prisoners who have re-entered society?
Behavioural change towards reduced intensity physical activity is disproportionately prevalent among adults with serious health issues or self-perception of high risk during the UK COVID-19 lockdown.
medRxiv 54d 2 tweets
Importance: There are growing concerns that the UK COVID-19 lockdown has reduced opportunities to maintain health through physical activity, placing individuals at higher risk of chronic disease and leaving them more vulnerable to severe sequelae of...
Modelling COVID-19
Nature Reviews Physics 66d 5 tweets
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, mathematical epidemiologists share their views on what models reveal about how the disease has spread, the current state of play and what work still needs to be done.
Projections of COVID-19 epidemics in LMIC countries
CMMID Repository 71d 3 tweets
Projected epidemics in LMIC with and without interventions
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Dr Roz Eggo As with all models, there are other limitations, and we plan to make updates as new information becomes available. However this is our current estimate of the possible scale of COVID-19 epidemics in these countries. NB: not peer reviewed (5/5) 67d