Health Policy
Predicting the Trajectory of Any COVID19 Epidemic From the Best Straight Line
Debate: Should Governments Continue Lockdown Strategy?
June, 2020
Should governments continue lockdown to slow the spread of covid-19? Until we have a meaningful alternative, lockdown is the only thing we can do to prevent further catastrophic spread of the virus, says Edward R Melnick.
But John PA Ioannidis argues that any benefits of lockdown depend on its effectiveness and the covid-19 burden—and that the harms are multifarious.
Illusory Effects of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID19 in Europe
June 8, 2020 - Stefan Homburg, Christof Kuhbandner
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Flaxman et al. (Nature, 8 June 2020, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2405-7, 2020) infer that non-pharmaceutical interventions conducted by several European countries considerably reduced effective reproduction numbers and saved millions of lives. We show that their method is ill-conceived and that the alleged effects are artefacts. Moreover, we demonstrate that the United Kingdom?s lockdown was both superfluous and ineffective.
Estimating Effects of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 in Europe
June 8, 2020
Seth Flaxman, Swapnil Mishra, Axel Gandy, H. Juliette T. Unwin, Thomas A. Mellan, Helen Coupland, Charles Whittaker, Harrison Zhu, Tresnia Berah, Jeffrey W. Eaton, Mélodie Monod, Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, Azra C. Ghani, Christl A. Donnelly, Steven M. Riley, Michaela A. C. Vollmer, Neil M. Ferguson, Lucy C. Okell & Samir Bhatt
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COVID-19 pandemic-related lockdown: response time is more important than its strictness
Doctors Break Down COVID Response and the Demonization of HCQ
Evidence-Based Medicine Has Been Hijacked
Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings—Personal Protective and Environmental Measures
A Review of Challenges and Opportunities in Machine Learning for Health
December, 2019
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