Sebastian Funk
Associate Professor at @LSHTM and @cmmid_lshtm; @wellcometrust senior research fellow; no longer on parental leave.
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COVID-19 settings of transmission - database
Initial results
Setting,Further setting information,Indoor / outdoor,Country,Further location information,Reference (with link),Date Published (or data accessed),Number of clusters,Primary cases,Secondary cases,Total number of cases per...
Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, Rt
Estimation of the effective reproductive number, Rt, is important for detecting changes in disease transmission over time. During the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers and public health officials are using Rt to assess the effectiveness of...
Have deaths from COVID-19 in Europe plateaued due to herd immunity?
Transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is currently
in marked decline in many countries in Europe, North America, and parts of Asia, following
unprecedented governmental interventions aiming to substantially...
Putting the Public Back in Public Health — Surveying Symptoms of Covid-19 | NEJM
Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Putting the Public Back in Public Health — Surveying Symptoms of Covid-19
Covid-19: Contributors
Project contributors
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Sebastian Funk
Updated real-time R estimates for #COVID19 epiforecasts.io/covid/ now with subnational estimates for Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Colombia 🇨🇴 and Russia 🇷🇺. Big thanks to @kathsherratt @seabbs @HellewellJoel for the update and to all other contributors listed at epiforecasts.io/covid/contribu… 1/3 pic.twitter.com/k8jgih1dDi
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Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don’t spread the virus at all?
Preventing big clusters of cases would help curb the pandemic, scientists say
Covid-19: Temporal variation in transmission during the COVID-19 outbreak
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Sebastian Funk
Updated real-time R estimates for #COVID19 epiforecasts.io/covid/ now with subnational estimates for Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Colombia 🇨🇴 and Russia 🇷🇺. Big thanks to @kathsherratt @seabbs @HellewellJoel for the update and to all other contributors listed at epiforecasts.io/covid/contribu… 1/3 pic.twitter.com/k8jgih1dDi
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Memory leak · Issue #91 · epiforecasts/EpiNow
When running over many regions there is a memory leak that causes an out of RAM error and ultimately leading to estimation failing. There is a gist here that provides a reprex. Via turning areas in...
School's out—balancing childcare needs of key workers with covid infection control - The BMJ
As of 23 March, the UK has closed schools to all but vulnerable children and children of key workers with no other means of childcare. [1] Many other countries have [...]More...
Wellcome Open Research Article: What settings have been linked to SARS-CoV-2 transmission clusters?.
Read the latest article version by Quentin J. Leclerc, Naomi M. Fuller, Lisa E. Knight, CMMID COVID-19 Working Group, Sebastian Funk, Gwenan M. Knight, at Wellcome Open Research.
The pandemic and the female academic
I’m curious what lockdown will reveal about the ‘maternal wall’ that can block faculty advancement.
Estimating the generation interval for COVID-19 based on symptom onset data
Background: Estimating key infectious disease parameters from the COVID-19 outbreak is quintessential for modelling studies and guiding intervention strategies. Whereas different estimates for the incubation period distribution and the serial...
Wellcome Open Research Article: The contribution of pre-symptomatic infection to the transmission dynamics of COVID-2019.
Read the latest article version by Yang Liu, Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases nCoV Working Group, Sebastian Funk, Stefan Flasche, at Wellcome Open Research.
Temporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of COVID-19
Presymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is estimated to account for a substantial proportion of COVID-19 cases.
Wellcome Open Research Article: Estimating the overdispersion in COVID-19 transmission using outbreak sizes outside China.
Read the latest article version by Akira Endo, Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases COVID-19 Working Group, Sam Abbott, Adam J. Kucharski, Sebastian Funk, at Wellcome Open Research.
COVID-19 Scenarios
This tool uses a mathematical model to simulate a variety of COVID-19 outcomes based on user-defined parameters