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Date Time Ground broken at White City for new School of Public Health Imperial’s plans for a transformative new School of Public Health reaches a key milestone as construction begins. The College marked the breaking of ground at Imperial’s White City Campus, the site for the new School of Public Health building, with a virtual event on Wednesday 21 April. This is a landmark moment in Imperial’s £100 million campaign for the School of Public Health, which has raised more than £57 million to date. The new multidisciplinary building will provide collaborative, flexible, and interactive s...

 E-Mail Resurgent COVID-19 epidemics in the US in 2020 have been driven by adults aged 20-49, and in particular adults aged 35-49, before and after school reopening Reproduction numbers for all age groups were controlled to well below one except for individuals aged 20-49 Across the US as a whole, the mobility trends indicate substantial initial declines in venue visits followed by a subsequent rebound for all age groups Share of age groups among the observed COVID-19 deaths was remarkably constant School reopening has not resulted in substantial increases in COVID-19 attributable deaths As...

Date Time US Covid resurgence driven by younger adults As of October 2020, individuals aged 20-49 were the only groups sustaining COVID-19 transmission with reproduction numbers well above 1 in the US. Following initial declines, numbers of COVID-19 cases started to rise again halfway through 2020 in the United States and Europe. In September the team published Report 32 as a pre-print, using age-specific mobility data from across the United states and linking these to age-specific COVID-19 mortality. Their findings pointed out that targeting interventions to adults aged 20-49 could facilitat...

Friday, January 22, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm GMT This event is hosted by the platform C19economics.org, is supported by Center for Global Development (as part of the International Decision Support Initiative) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Management of the COVID-19 outbreak has relied heavily on the contributions of two disciplines: macroeconomics and epidemiology. These contributions have been largely separate: epidemiological models of COVID have yet to include economics; conversely, the attempts to include health in macroeconomic modelling have been limited ...

10 December 2020 A new COVID-19 analysis tool that estimates which districts in Austria could become coronavirus hotspots has been launched by Imperial. The website tool, uses reported cases and deaths to estimate the probability any of the 94 political districts of Austria will become COVID-19 ‘hotspots’ in the next three weeks. The team behind the website, the Imperial College COVID19 Response Team, define a hotspot as a political district with more than 200 cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 of the population per week. Daily projections The tool will update its projections daily The si...