Sebastian Funk
Associate Professor at @LSHTM and @cmmid_lshtm; @wellcometrust senior research fellow; no longer on parental leave.
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The COVID-19 response illustrates that traditional academic reward structures and metrics do not reflect crucial contributions to modern science
The COVID-19 pandemic has motivated many open and collaborative analytical research projects with real-world impact. However, despite their value, such activities are generally overlooked by traditional academic metrics. Science is ultimately...
Lessons from New Zealand's COVID-19 outbreak response
In the absence of a vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2),
or of highly effective pharmaceutical treatments for COVID-19, countries have implemented
a large range of non-pharmaceutical interventions to control the...
Can a 'circuit break' halt the second Covid wave?
Can a short burst of national restrictions change the course of the epidemic?
Transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in household and community settings in the United Kingdom
Background: Households appear to be the highest risk setting for transmission of COVID-19. Large household transmission studies were reported in the early stages of the pandemic in Asia with secondary attack rates ranging from 5-30% but few large...
Bias correction methods for test-negative designs in the presence of misclassification | Epidemiology & Infection | Cambridge Core
Bias correction methods for test-negative designs in the presence of misclassification - A. Endo, S. Funk, A. J. Kucharski
KITmetricslab/covid19-forecast-hub-de
Contribute to KITmetricslab/covid19-forecast-hub-de development by creating an account on GitHub.
Implications of the school-household network structure on SARS-CoV-2 transmission under different school reopening strategies in England
Background School closures are a well-established non-pharmaceutical intervention in the event of infectious disease outbreaks, and have been implemented in many countries across the world, including the UK, to slow down the spread of SARS-CoV-2. As...
Report 25 - Response to COVID-19 in South Korea and implications for lifting stringent interventions
Report 25 - Response to COVID-19 in South Korea and implications for lifting stringent interventions
CRAN - Package socialmixr
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Sebastian Funk
Version 0.1.7 of the socialmixr #RStats package now on CRAN cran.r-project.org/web/packages/s…. Big thanks to @AlxsRobert for fixing a bug with weighting - make sure to update if that's a feature you use. Also thanks to all other contributors @cap1024 @samclifford @Jarvis_Stats
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The career cost of COVID-19 to female researchers, and how science should respond
Some funders and journals are trying to support female researchers and others whose publications and positions are at risk.
Let expats vote in the countries where they live
Taxation without representation is unfair
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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