COVID-19 Resources

More COVID-19 Resources

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NEWS: ACEMS Researchers on COVID-19 Forecasting Team

ACEMS Podcast: The Random Sample - COVID19-related episodes

• Episode 30: The Maths Behind Australia's Response to COVID-19 - In this episode, we chat with Professor James McCaw, one of the leaders of the pandemic modelling group advising Australia's National Cabinet. Professor McCaw talks about the role mathematical modelling played in Australia's response to COVID-19.

• Episode 27: Hospital Hesitancy - In the build up to the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals started preparing for the worst. But after the pandemic took hold, emergency department numbers actually dropped. Why? In this episode, we explore that question. 

• Episode 26: COVID Clues in Dirty Water Data - To see how COVID-19 is moving through society, Australia's Chief Scientist is mobilising a team to analyse the dirty wastewater that leaves homes and businesses every day. In this episode, we explore how data from that dirty water could provide key information on what's going on with the pandemic in Australia.

• Episode 25: Safe Blues - How well do social distancing measures work when it comes to controlling the spread of COVID-19? Which ones can we start to remove? And when? The problem with these questions is that it takes days, even weeks to see if a certain measure is working. In this episode, we introduce you to a project called 'Safe Blues'. Its aim is to provide a way to get these answers in a more real-time fashion, by tapping into the power of your mobile device.

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ACEMS COVID-19 Research Workshop Videos 

(available to ACEMS members - make sure you log into reportal first, and then click on the link to get to the videos)

 

Publications and Pre-prints

• Risk mapping for COVID-19 outbreaks using mobility data

  • (Cameron Zachreson, Lewis Mitchell, Michael Lydeamore, Nicolas Rebuli, Martin Tomko, Nicholas Geard)

• Key Questions for Modelling COVID-19 Exit Strategies (published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B)

  • ​(Robin N Thompson, T Deirdre Hollingsworth, Valerie Isham, Daniel Arribas-Bel, Ben Ashby, Tom Britton, Peter Challoner, Lauren H K Chappell, Hannah Clapham, Nik J Cunniffe, A Philip Dawid, Christl A Donnelly, Rosalind Eggo, Sebastian Funk, Nigel Gilbert, Julia R Gog, Paul Glendinning, William S Hart, Hans Heesterbeek, Thomas House, Matt Keeling, Istvan Z Kiss, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Alun L Lloyd, Emma S McBryde, James M McCaw, Joel C Miller, Trevelyan J McKinley, Martina Morris, Philip D ONeill, Carl A B Pearson, Kris V Parag, Lorenzo Pellis, Juliet R C Pulliam, Joshua V Ross, Michael J Tildesley, Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba, Bernard W Silverman, Claudio J Struchiner, Pieter Trapman, Cerian R Webb, Denis Mollison, Olivier Restif)

• ​Modeling the Dynamics of the COVID-19 Population in Australia: A Probabilistic Analysis

  • (Ali Eshragh, Saed Alizamir, Peter Howley, Elizabeth Stojanovski)

• Hindsight is 2020 vision: Characterization of the Global Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic 

  • (David J. Warne, Anthony Ebert, Christopher Drovandi, Antonietta Mira, Kerrie Mengersen)

• Assessing the risk of spread of COVID-19 to the Asia Pacific region 

  • ​(Freya Shearer, James Walker, Nefel Tellioglu, James M McCaw, Jodie McVernon, Andrew Black, Nicholas Geard)​

• Modelling the impact of COVID-19 in Australia to inform transmission reducing measures and health system prepareness

  • (Robert Moss, James Wood, Damien Brown, Freya Shearer, Andrew J Black, Allen Cheng, James M McCaw, Jodie McVernon)

 

In the News

• Group Testing to help control COVID-19 - The University of Melbourne's "Pursuit", 2 September

• Forecasting COVID, time-series, and why causality doesn't matter as much as you think - Investment Magazine, 19 July

• 70% of people surveyed said they’d download a coronavirus app. Only 44% did. Why the gap? - The Conversation, 15 May

• COVID-19 simulator could help track virus spread as restrictions eased - Brisbane Times, 7 May

• Odd (and even) suggestion for easing restrictions using house numbers - Sydney Morning Herald, 6 May

• Why the coronavirus lockdown is making the internet stronger than ever - MIT Technology Review, 7 April

• How to flatten the curve of coronavirus, a mathematician explains - The Conversation, 16 March

• What maths can tell us about the spread of the new coronavirus - Pursuit, The University of Melbourne, 4 February