C-19: Combating COVID. What we have learned about choices to make
The process of combating the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light a number of complicated choices that stakeholders have had to make...
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- Jun 13, 2021
- 2 min
C-19: Early results from observing efficacy of current vaccine portfolios
In the last 6 months we have witnessed a scramble by all countries to immunise their populations against COVID-19. Given the collective...
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- May 10, 2021
- 4 min
C-19: Locking down at 11th hour before much anticipated public holiday was an ill-informed strategy
We review the data of daily cases against mobility changes (measured by Google Community Mobility reports) for Malaysia since the start...
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- May 2, 2021
- 15 min
C-19: A folly of trusting data quantity over quality [updated]?
How we may have unknowingly downplayed the impact of the virus through over-reliance on testing, while death stats told us everything we...
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- Feb 7, 2021
- 2 min
C-19: Observing the US economy under the pandemic (updated)
In this article we continue exploring spending, employment, and store revenue collection and opening data from the US economy; and tie...
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- Jul 9, 2020
- 2 min
C-19: Brief US country and market update [minor update Apr '21]
In this brief article we update our views on the COVID-19 developments in the US, particularly from an economic impact perspective...
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- Jun 24, 2020
- 11 min
C-19: Why is case growth now outstripping deaths? A crucial debate with the aid of data
Those following our research thus far should be familiar with our fondness for using mobility statistics as an input to modelling the...
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- Jun 22, 2020
- 10 min
C-19: Where is the economy headed? Studying the role of small businesses in the recovery
There have been several initiatives in the US around collating relevant and critical social, economic and healthcare data to help...
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- Jun 7, 2020
- 6 min
C-19: The rocky road to economic recovery. How bad is it? Which sectors will gain, which will lose?
In a previous article we mooted the idea that the capital markets have been a relatively poor indicator of economic recovery around...
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- Jun 6, 2020
- 10 min
C-19: A humble plea to the scientific community to keep the forecasting science relevant
There is now a critical need for a step-shift improvement in data visualisation tools and modelling science around the COVID-19 pandemic....
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- Jun 3, 2020
- 11 min
C-19: Why most economic projections have likely got it wrong
An understanding of how the economy has performed during the period of lockdown has only just been made clear, with company quarterly...
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- Jun 2, 2020
- 9 min
C-19: Why some countries are likely to stay in crisis for some time
With lockdown measures starting to be moderated, the first phase of the pandemic outbreak: initial wave of infections (and deaths), has...
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- May 20, 2020
- 7 min
C-19: Populations are resilient - we are learning to adapt to the situation
As more economies reopen, having withstood the last 2-3 months of physical distancing and lockdowns, most of us are expecting new...
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- May 11, 2020
- 4 min
C-19: Comparing 'exit strategy' archetypes between countries
The COVID-19 pandemic has now reached its fifth month since the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China. Tracking the progression of spread...
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- May 4, 2020
- 11 min
C-19: Rushing to open the economy may cause more harm than good unless well thought through
As the month of May greets us, many countries have already begun early actions to reopen their economies post stringent lock-downs...
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- May 1, 2020
- 8 min
C-19: Importance of testing at speed
We utilise a cross correlation method to gauge a more robust estimate of test delays and timeliness of death reporting from country to...
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- Apr 29, 2020
- 7 min
C-19: Estimating epidemiological characteristics of the disease
The novel nature of the virus SARS-nCoV-2 and its associated disease, COVID-19, mean that the full epidemiological characteristics for...
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- Apr 28, 2020
- 3 min
C-19: A likely candidate for an exit strategy
In this article we attempt to directly address 3 major questions (for the case of Malaysia); (A) Crudely speaking, how could we go about...
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- Apr 25, 2020
- 10 min
C-19: How transmission changes under shifts in mobility: country comparisons
In this analysis, we utilise mobility data from a range of countries, specifically the onset of reduced mobilities from movement...
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- Apr 23, 2020
- 12 min
C-19: How best to moderate movement controls?
The data provided by Google and Apple for the purposes of tracking changes in mobility during this COVID-19 crisis have been useful to...
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