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@WHO Collaborating Centre for infectious disease modelling. Follow us for health analytics, vaccines, genomics & preparedness. Also on @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social
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    Jun 23
    NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! In June we celebrated Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈 In this episode, @SabineLvE speaks with Dr Rosie Maddren & Dr Joseph Hicks about how research institutions can support their LGBTQ+ staff and students when travelling @ImperialSPH @imperialcollege 👇
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    Mar 16, 2020
    UPDATE: #Coronavirus ➡more intensive interventions now needed in UK to slow down #COVID19 spread, reduce pressure on healthcare & protect those most at risk ➡️careful monitoring required when interventions relaxed 🔰Full report: imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-inf…
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    Jan 22, 2020
    UPDATE: Report estimates 4000 cases #coronavirus #2019nCoV Our estimate at 4,000 cases is more than double the past estimate due to increase of number of cases outside China. This should not be interpreted as implying the outbreak has doubled in size. 🔰imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-inf…
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    Feb 5, 2020
    Your questions on #CoronaVirus #2019nCoV answered: @neil_ferguson on estimates, scale of the epidemic, forward projections, the role of modelling in outbreak response, informing governments, interventions, control measures & more Watch the full video: 🔰youtu.be/ALQTdCYGISw
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    Jan 17, 2020
    Size of Wuhan outbreak of a novel #coronavirus estimated from the three cases detected outside China: Likely to be over 1000 cases. @imperialcollege @mrc_outbreaks report released today 🔰 imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-inf…
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    Jan 25, 2020
    UPDATE: Transmissibility estimates of #coronavirus #2019nCoV at 2.6 Identification & testing potential cases to be as extensive as permitted by healthcare & testing capacity 🔰imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-inf… @neil_ferguson @dr_anne_cori @SRileyIDD @MarcBaguelin @IlariaDorigatti
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    Feb 21, 2020
    UPDATE: #COVID19 sensitivity of international surveillance ➡️Two thirds of cases exported from mainland China are undetected. 🔰Read the full report: imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-inf…
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    Dec 31, 2020
    UPDATE #COVID19 new variant VOC202012/01 in England ➡️VOC growing rapidly ➡️Transmission advantage for VOC of 0.4 to 0.7 difference in reproduction number compared to non-VOC variant ➡️VOC affecting a greater proportion of under 20s 👉Report imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-inf…
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    Feb 10, 2020
    UPDATE: #coronavirus #2019nCoV Severity ➡️Estimated fatality ratio for infections 1% ➡️Estimated CFR for travellers outside mainland China (mix severe & milder cases) 1%-5% ➡️Estimated CFR for detected cases in Hubei (severe cases) 18% 🔰imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-inf…
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    Oct 31, 2021
    The Mail on Sunday has apologised and removed the online version of an article headlined ‘Will the Covid doom-mongers NEVER admit they’re wrong?’, which contained a number of inaccurate and misleading claims about Imperial research
    Clarifications & corrections 
    From dailymail.com
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    Feb 15, 2020
    UPDATE: #COVID19 Phylogenetics ➡️Genetic diversity of COVID-19 is consistent with exponential growth, doubling time seven days ➡️Start epidemic estimated early December 2019 Read the full report: 🔰imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-inf…
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    Mar 30, 2020
    UPDATE: #Coronavirus Europe (11 countries) ➡️1.88% to 11.43% of population infected with #COVID19 up to 28th March ➡️Interventions have already impacted control of the epidemic ➡️Interventions have saved between 21,000 & 120,000 lives 🔰Report imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-inf…
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    Jun 22, 2021
    New peer-reviewed publication in @ScienceTM on the #Covid19 epidemic in the UK last year. ▶️23,000 lives could have been saved in first wave if lockdown introduced 1 week earlier Read more: stm.sciencemag.org/content/early/…
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    Jul 21, 2021
    For every 2 adults who die due to #COVID19, 1 child is left without a family-caregiver. A global study in @TheLancet uncovers the impact of this hidden #pandemic – more than 1.5M children worldwide growing up without family-caregivers.
    Global study estimates 1.5 million children have lost a caregiver from COVID-19 | Imperial News |...
    From imperial.ac.uk