@andradjaafara@ojwatson92@ArielKarlinsky@BMCMedicine@MRC_Outbreak I think what he shows is that you can use syndromic mortality data - arguably more readily collectible than excess mortality in lots of places (don’t have to go back in time) - to say so much more about transmission and intervention impact
I should clarify that we have only managed to sequence a small number of samples so far and while it was dominant in this cohort we can't be sure whether this is true across the country as we have not sampled enough. We hope to address this soon....
It’s that time again. A mumpsimus (16th century) is someone who refuses to budge/insists that they are right, despite clear evidence that they are wrong. Plural: mumpsimuses.
Re VAR; the best solution would have been to stop at goal-line technology. And then accept you have four officials who get most things right but occasionally unfair things would happen. But we couldn’t cope with that, so this is the world we wished for.