Next Monday (May 24th 2021) is the official begin of the UK Covid-19 Crowd Forecasting Challenge. Over the course of 12 weeks, human forecasters will…
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Crowd forecasting Covid-19 Cases and Deaths in Europe
For the past few months of my PhD in epidemiology I have worked on forecasting and forecast evaluation. In many places, forecast models have had…
Making Your Own Covid-19 Vaccine at Home
If you want, you can create your own Covid-19 vaccine at home and it is actually not that hard to do. In December 2020, johnswentworth…
First Doses First
The UK moved to a first dose first strategy, where they prioritize vaccine uptake over administering second doses. This means that instead of administering the…
Could we Vaccinate Twice as Many People?
Michael Minna raises an intriguing possibility in an opinion piece in the New York Times: Instead of giving people two shots of a vaccine, we…
How the Virus Spreads
El País published an article with very nice visualizations of how the coronavirus spreads via aerosols. It’s a light and informative read. Main takeaways: The…
More Evidence for Vitamin D and Covid
Vitamin D has been among the supplements researchers suggested may be helpful against Covid-19 for a long time. Now we have the results from a…
Lab Safety and the Origins of Covid-19
Until this day the origins of the Sars-coronavirus 2 remain unknown. The two ends of the spectrum of theories are the zoonotic theory and the…
Thursday, 30.04.2020 – Forecasting CoVid-19 Cases
Link of the day: Forecasts of cases and the effective reproduction number globally For the last weeks I’ve been working with a team at the…
Sunday, 19.04.2020 – Bill Maher On The ‘Chinese Virus’
I found it interesting