Faculty of Science: Recent submissions
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Predicting COVID-19 mortality with electronic medical records
Published 2021This study aims to predict death after COVID-19 using only the past medical information routinely collected in electronic health records (EHRs) and to understand the differences in risk factors across age groups. Combining ...Article -
Role of masks, testing and contact tracing in preventing COVID-19 resurgences: a case study from New South Wales, Australia
Published 2021OBJECTIVES: The early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic illustrated that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease, has the potential to spread exponentially. Therefore, as long as a substantial proportion of the population ...Article -
Modelling the potential impact of mask use in schools and society on COVID-19 control in the UK
Published 2021As the UK reopened after the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic, crucial questions emerged around the role for ongoing interventions, including test-trace-isolate (TTI) strategies and mandatory masks. Here we assess the ...Article -
Infection Rate Models for COVID-19: Model Risk and Public Health News Sentiment Exposure Adjustments.
Published 2021During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments globally had to impose severe contact restriction measures and social mobility limitations in order to limit the exposure of the population to COVID-19. These public health policy ...Preprint -
Geodemography, environment and societal characteristics drive the global diversity of emerging, zoonotic and human pathogens
Published 2021Understanding human disease, zoonoses and emergence is a global priority. A deep understanding of pathogen ecology and the complex inherent relationships at the agent–environment interface are essential to inform disease ...Article