A national consortium bringing together modellers to produce rigorous predictions for the COVID-19 pandemic and advise UK government bodies will receive £3 million funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The JUNIPER consortium (‘Joint UNIversities Pandemic and Epidemiological Research’) brings together leading mathematical and statistical modellers from seven UK universities, including Prof Daniela De Angelis […]

Today, we have published a new report on our real-time tracking of the COVID-19 pandemic. This information is helping the government to track the COVID-19 pandemic in real time. We have highlighted the latest findings and provided interpretation of what these findings mean. We have also explained our recent model and report changes. Updated findings […]

Research conducted at the MRC Biostatistics Unit has captured the process of SARS-CoV-2 evolution, as it happened within a single patient.  The research findings, described in a new paper in the journal Nature, have potential importance for how COVID-19 patients are treated and for the management of the pandemic as a whole. The study, a […]

We regularly estimate the number of people who died from COVID-19 in England on each day, within 28 days and 60 days of a positive antigen test. Using data available on the 31st January 2021 and the improved method described in the article posted on MedRXiv in September, we have estimated the numbers of deaths […]