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Cambridge researchers have played a vital role in the fight back against COVID-19, from the use of genomics to track its spread and mathematic modelling to understand infection rates through to innovative screening programmes to keep its students and staff safe.

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Underactive immune response may explain obesity link to COVID-19 severity

20 March 2023

Individuals who are obese may be more susceptible to severe COVID-19 because of a poorer inflammatory immune response, say Cambridge scientists.

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UK modelling study finds case isolation and contact tracing vital to COVID-19 epidemic control

16 Jun 2020

In the absence of a vaccine or highly effective treatments for COVID-19, combining isolation and intensive contact tracing with physical distancing...

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Waning immunity and the second wave: projections for COVID-19

16 Jun 2020

Will partial lockdown and social distancing become the future norm? Economist Dr Flavio Toxvaerd discusses his latest modelling research.

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What have been the fatal risks of Covid, particularly to children and younger adults?

15 Jun 2020

David Spiegelhalter, Professor for the Understanding of Risk, attempts to break down the mortality risk by age in a blog for the Winton Centre for...

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Coronavirus: what's safe and what's not

14 Jun 2020

Dr Sander van der Linden discusses the risks posed by COVID-19 – both real and perceived – with Roger Highfield for the Science Museum.

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Striking differences revealed in COVID-19 mortality between NHS trusts

12 Jun 2020

A University of Cambridge team led by Professor Mihaela van der Schaar and intensive care consultant Dr Ari Ercole of the Cambridge Centre for AI in...

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#ResponsiveResearch from the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute

12 Jun 2020

A series of short interviews with Cambridge's stem cell researchers, exploring how they are adapting their work to investigate Covid-19.

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Recruitment underway as Cambridgeshire NHS trusts join COVID-19 vaccine trial

11 Jun 2020

Recruitment has begun at three leading Cambridgeshire NHS Trusts for volunteers to take part in the nationwide COVID-19 vaccine trial.

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Tackling COVID-19: Professor Jorge Goncalves

11 Jun 2020

Jorge Goncalves is an expert in artificial intelligence and mathematical modelling of complex systems. With long-term collaborators based in Wuhan...

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Widespread facemask use could shrink the ‘R’ number and prevent a second COVID-19 wave – study

10 Jun 2020

Even basic homemade masks can significantly reduce transmission if enough people wear them when in public, according to latest modelling. Researchers...

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Codecheck confirms reproducibility of COVID-19 model results

09 Jun 2020

Cambridge researcher confirms reproducibility of high-profile Imperial College coronavirus computational model.

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Supporting people who are homeless during COVID-19, notes from Cambridge

08 Jun 2020

Dr Johannes Lenhard from the Department of Social Anthropology has started a new project with homeless people and those who support them in Cambridge...

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COVID-19: 'R' number increasing across England and highest in North West

05 Jun 2020

The R number for COVID-19 – the number of people an infected individual passes the virus onto – has risen to above 1 in the North West of England and...

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