OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 million adult NHS patients
Background Establishing who is at risk from a novel rapidly arising cause of death, and why, requires a new approach to epidemiological research with...
Coronavirus conspiracy theories are frustrating ER doctors
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UK coronavirus adviser resigns after reports his lover visited during lockdown
A leading epidemiologist who advised the UK government on its coronavirus response resigned from his government post on Tuesday, after the Telegraph newspaper revealed he broke the lockdown rules he...
John Newton – not “silly” in the slightest
The name Professor John Newton might be a relatively new one to many people in the UK.
Those of us that have worked to make the...
Who is Neil Ferguson, the Imperial College London virus modeller and Government scientific adviser
Prof Ferguson has been a key figure around the Government's scientific community for years
Whenever Government ministers have been put in a sticky spot over...
