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Visualizing the Covid-19 pandemic with doubling rates

Artwork by Bosny (bosnyart.com)As the popularity of coronavirus data visualizations increases, so does the risk…

Luke Anderson-Trocmé and Sahir BhatnagarJuly 10, 2020

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A long tradition: Discussion meetings at the Royal Statistical Society

Discussion meetings are the most prestigious of the many types of meetings organised by the…

Paul A. SmithJune 16, 2020

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Getting out of lockdown in the UK – slowly, with robust reporting standards, and important intelligence about new infections

Much is expected from the UK’s symptomatic Test and Trace system (sT&T), and all of us must…

Sheila M. BirdJune 16, 2020

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Covid-19 through the lens of the peer-reviewed literature: January to May 2020

Photo by Lysander Yuen on UnsplashAs medical students and budding clinical academics, we have been…

Samuel R. Neal and Cindy ZhengJune 9, 2020

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Robust Bayesian modelling for Covid-19 data in Italy

mazzzur/BigstockphotoOn 21 February 2020, the first person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 – the virus responsible for…

Robbayes-C19June 2, 2020

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A confluence of acute and chronic diseases: Risk factors among Covid-19 patients

Photo by De an Sun on UnsplashCovid-19 is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by…

TarekMay 27, 2020

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A more transparent way to estimate and report daily Covid-19 deaths

Photo by Hello I'm Nik 🎞 on Unsplash“How many people have died in recent days…

Oliver Stoner and Theo EconomouMay 27, 2020

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Removing the pump handle: Stewarding data at times of public health emergency

John Snow memorial in Broadwick Street, London. Photo by Justinc, sourced from WikipediaThere is a…

Reema PatelMay 20, 2020

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Comparing and assessing Covid-19 tests

Image created by Russell TateThis article explores what people mean when they talk about testing…

Nathan GreenMay 19, 2020

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The many definitions of a Covid-19 death toll

Photo by Dan Burton on UnsplashThis note considers the different measures of the death toll…

Simon BriscoeMay 13, 2020

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Science in the face of Covid-19: faster, better, stronger?

Photo by Tedward Quinn on UnsplashOn 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared…

Simon Schwab and Leonhard HeldMay 8, 2020

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Yellow fever experiments, and early informed consent

In the June 2020 issue of Significance, we tell the story of medical researchers in the…

Ronald D. Fricker, Jr and Steven E. RigdonMay 6, 2020

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To infer or not to infer: the UK’s inadequate public disclosure of Covid-19 swab test results

The World Health Organization asks governments to consider two questions when carrying out risk assessments…

Sheila M. BirdMay 5, 2020

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Why England’s daily reported Covid-19 deaths are not the number of people that have died in a day

Photo by Hello I'm Nik 🎞 on UnsplashThe UK government provides an update during their…

Kathryn LeemingMay 5, 2020

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Nightingale and the coronavirus pandemic: disease prevention, parallels and principles

An imaginary drawing of Florence Nightingale nursing in Scutari, by her sister Parthenope. Photographed at…

Lynn McDonaldApril 30, 2020

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Now more than ever, African governments need reliable data

Community surveillance in times of Covid-19: A TB Reach health worker in Tanzania visits a…

Sandra Alba, Christina Mergenthaler and Roland KielmanApril 30, 2020

COVID-19 Screening Checkpoint at Chinook Regional Hospital in Lethbridge, Alberta

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Bayes’ theorem and Covid-19 testing

Photo by Graham Ruttan on UnsplashI’m writing this article from the country with more confirmed…

Michael A. LewisApril 22, 2020

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Covid-19 data: To age or not to age; to date or not to date?

Pandemic swine-flu, which emerged from Mexico in spring 2009, was a wild thing but a…

Sheila M. BirdApril 22, 2020

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Pandemic influenza and Covid–19: Geographical velocity and control

Photo by Juan Cruz Mountford on UnsplashOn 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO)…

Matthew Smallman-Raynor and Andrew CliffApril 22, 2020

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Some comparisons between Italy and the UK for Covid-19: March to April 2020

Photo by KOBU Agency on UnsplashWith the rapid global spread of Covid-19 in recent weeks,…

Giovanni Sebastiani, Julian Stander and Mario Cortina BorjaApril 21, 2020