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Blog Post
June 04, 2020
As we head into June, reports have continued to emerge that highlight the magnitude of the indirect effects the COVID-19 pandemic is having on health systems around the world. The pandemic has created additional barriers for patients accessing essential care, whether it be restrictions on...
Blog Post
June 02, 2020
In stressing the high numbers of additional people who are dying as an indirect result of COVID-19 measures, we may have given the impression that we believe that there would be no additional non-COVID-19 deaths in an unmitigated scenario. We don’t believe that. We aimed to illustrate how the calcul...
Blog Post
May 27, 2020
Before COVID-19, the 2014-2015 West African Ebola epidemic (EVD epidemic), was one of the most heavily modelled outbreaks in history. Within the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic, 31 mathematical models were developed. Despite the clear differences in the two outbreaks, the EVD epidemic can ...
Blog Post
May 12, 2020
The full impacts of COVID-19 and the restrictions adopted to mitigate the pandemic are yet to be fully revealed. We do not know the number of deaths indirectly related to the novel coronavirus around the world, and how these may differ from country to country. We are launching an inventory to track ...
Blog Post
November 20, 2019
With the 2019 Nobel prize for economics going to Western economists combating poverty in LMICs through RCT-generated evidence, the time is ripe for the global community and national leaders to invest in a similar and yet different type of capacity: local pragmatic research infrastructure for learnin...