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Susanna Lehtimaki
- Jun 15, 2020
- 9 min
School re-opening and COVID-19
In this brief, we explore the current evidence around school closures in Europe and North America and provide an update on practice from...
Nina Schwalbe
- Jun 10, 2020
- 3 min
Non-communicable diseases and COVID-19: A perfect storm
For decades academics and policy makers have warned of the risks of a viral pandemic with effects as devastating as the Spanish Flu in...
Nina Schwalbe
- May 20, 2020
- 3 min
Generation "C"
Sharing our new blog from the British Medical Journal. Solid public health decision making requires engagement of a wide range of...
Nina Schwalbe
- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
Models applied to low-income countries: why one size may not fit all
Please read this presentation to learn more! Read more Models applied to LMICs
Nina Schwalbe
- May 8, 2020
- 1 min
Age and comorbidities: NYC, Brazil, Mexico and India (from 27 April)
We did this analysis last week and forgot to post. Currently updating it based on new data. Age: - In NYC, 73% of deaths were in people...
Nina Schwalbe
- May 6, 2020
- 1 min
Missing in the COVID response: Population health
Given the prevalence of obesity in the US (40% over age 20 - which is correlated with SES) and numbers of elderly in facilities (1.3M) we...
Nina Schwalbe
- May 6, 2020
- 1 min
Global health "experts" take on US response
A number of actors that are big on the global health scene seem to have taken over our domestic response as well. Models developed by...
Nina Schwalbe
- May 6, 2020
- 1 min
Reflections on NYC
It seems like NYC is finally getting around to surveillance. We did some work for the state earlier in April but they were unconvinced by...
Nina Schwalbe
- May 5, 2020
- 1 min
Testing the quality of COVID-19 tests - a sign of hope?
Perhaps, at last, some hope that public health colleagues may be coming back to their senses. See this recent decision that the FDA will...
Nina Schwalbe
- Apr 22, 2020
- 1 min
Models, Math and COVID-19: A Public Health Response
Sharing our new post from the Council on Foreign Relations These strategies, now being applied across a range of contexts, have never...
Anna-Carin Matterson
- Apr 17, 2020
- 1 min
Self-test kits distributed in Stockholm, Sweden
Corona virus serological self-test kits were mailed to1,000 residents of the Swedish capital Stockholm over the Easter weekend by the...
Susanna Lehtimaki
- Apr 9, 2020
- 4 min
COVID testing: a summary of practice in selected countries
Lack of surveillance testing prevents an understanding of the extent to which the virus is already spread among populations. Evidence...
Anna-Carin Matterson
- Apr 8, 2020
- 1 min
Contact tracing in Sweden - early coronavirus infections were mainly to family members
Sweden has reviewed the results from the contact tracing done on the first cases of coronavirus in the country. Swedish Radio News...
Nina Schwalbe
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
Infection fatality rate?
Check out our piece for the World Economic Forum https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/we-could-be-vastly-overestimating-the-death-rate-...
Susanna Lehtimaki
- Apr 3, 2020
- 3 min
Covid response in Rio de Janeiro - context matters
As of April 1, there has been 832 confirmed cases and 28 deaths in Rio de Janeiro, a state of 16.5 million inhabitants. Actual numbers...
Nina Schwalbe
- Mar 30, 2020
- 2 min
More on Italy.
Here is the story. And letting you know that in the next day or so there will be a model coming out of NYU and Columbia with predictions...
Anna-Carin Matterson
- Mar 27, 2020
- 1 min
Large differences in British and Swedish coronavirus calculations
A report in the Swedish Radio (published 26 March 2020) tells us that the number of Swedes who will show up at hospital and test positive...
Nina Schwalbe
- Mar 27, 2020
- 1 min
Models
Two models were published today. One from Imperial College in the UK which is a revision of the model we wrote previously.. They have...
Nina Schwalbe
- Mar 27, 2020
- 1 min
A quick model alert
While models are important tools in the toolbox – and can be helpful for decision making – they are math exercises - built around a...
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