Click on the links below to read more about our COVID-19 news, listen to the podcasts our researchers have featured in, and watch panel discussions we have participated in

• New real-time tracking of COVID -19 – 15th July 2022
• People with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant are less likely to be admitted to hospital or die compared to those with Delta variant
• Article in Royal Statistical Society: Statistics are vital: An interview with Thomas Jaki
• Congratulations to Daniela De Aneglis on receiving the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Impact and Engagement Awards, in the Established Academic Category
• Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant were more likely to be admitted to hospital compared to patients with Alpha variant
• Hospital-acquired COVID-19 tends to be picked up from other patients, not from healthcare workers
• News article on RSS website, co-written by Sylvia Richardson: How ideas from decision theory can help guide our actions
• Latest modelling suggests that COVID-19 vaccines have prevented 7.2m infections and 27,000 deaths
• New research on immune recovery from COVID-19
• Article in The Times, written by Sylvia Richardson: Pregnant women need to be at front of vaccine queue
• PhD Student, Joshua Blake included in: In Vivo’s 2021 Rising Leaders
• Article in Times Higher Education, interview with Sylvia Richardson: RSS head: Statisticians no longer ‘party bores’ in Covid era
• Video panel discussion, including Daniela De Angelis: Following the Science: What lessons have we learned about science communication from COVID-19?
• Video panel discussion, including Sylvia Richardson: AIUK: Is there a post-pandemic AI panacea 
• Podcast: NIHR Podcast with Thomas Jaki on the AGILE initiative and the advantages and challenges of Platform Trials
• New funding for national consortium to model COVID-19 pandemic predictions 
• New real-time tracking of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Tracking the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in an immunocompromised patient 
• Article in The Conversation, written by Sylvia Richardson: Vaccine rollouts, school testing and contact tracing could all be improved – here’s how
• Nowcasting COVID-19 Deaths
• Video of seminar: MRC Seminar by Daniela De Angelis on ‘Tracking the COVID-19 pandemic in real time’
• Why has COVID-19 mortality been lower in the second wave?
• How many COVID-19 deaths occurred on each day?
• About our Nowcasting and Forecasting of COVID-19
• Software tool will help doctors identify and prevent hospital transmission of SARS-CoV-2
• Rising Stars in Research on COVID-19
• Smoking and obesity identified to have casual link with susceptibility to severe COVID-19 and sepsis 
• The AGILE Clinical Trial Platform
• Are we underestimating the spread of COVID-19 based on seroprevalence surveys?
• Tackling COVID-19: Professor Daniela De Angelis
• Podcast: CSaP Podcast with Sylvia Richardson – Data, COVID-19 and lessons learned so far
• RECOVERY Trial – Using adaptive designs to help identify treatments for COVID-19
• Tackling COVID-19: a collaborative scientific effort
• Article in The Observer, co-written by Sylvia Richardson: Coronavirus statistics: what can we trust and what should we ignore?
• COVID-19 research boosted by 21 new projects, funded by UK government
• Podcast: CSaP Science, Policy and Pandemics Podcast with Daniela De Angelis
• Modelling of COVID-19