IT IS POSSIBLE TO STOP THE EPIDEMIC
We are a group of scientists based at Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Medicine, with expertise in infectious disease epidemiology, medicine, virology, immunology, mathematical modelling, phylogenetics, behavioural economics, ethics and communications.
We started analysing COVID-19 in January, focusing our research efforts on developing novel approaches to understand the spread of infection and explore interventions to reduce it. Our research is informing the design, development and roll-out of the UK’s and other government efforts to mange their COVID-19 response, including provision of real-time epidemic modelling and provision of the epidemiological evidence base for digital contact tracing.
Our efforts focus on the unquestionable need for integrated, fast and effective test and trace strategies to help reduce transmission, avoid resurgence, and mitigate against the devastating impacts of repeated lockdowns. We believe the epidemic can be stopped.
Our agent-based epidemic simulation enables epidemiologists, app designers and policy makers to compare a variety of strategies for effective contact tracing. Our model is open source. We suggest that one important means of delivering fast tracing uses digital Bluetooth-enabled 安卓灯蓝专业版加速器 We published our findings in Science and continue to share our latest analyses in multiple reports.
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