Dan Ryan Jan 21 2 min Looking back 11 years, not 130. Today, headlines proclaimed that we have not seen excess mortality in peacetime in Scotland of the scale we witnessed last year since the...
Dan Ryan Jan 19 2 min Tracking The Tribes of America Yesterday, we highlighted differences in the experience of COVID-19 on either side of the Atlantic. As promised, today we focus on...
Dan Ryan Jan 18 2 min Two countries divided by a "common" virus The roll-out of vaccination is accelerating apace. In the UK, the BBC reports that those aged 70 and over and those listed as clinically...
Dan Ryan Dec 29, 2020 2 min A patchwork quilt across the pond, thanks to COVID-19. Yesterday, I shared analysis that illustrated how excess deaths in the 2nd wave are dramatically lower (so far) in different regions of...
Dan Ryan Dec 28, 2020 1 min Different experiences of the COVID-19 winter Viewed across the UK, excess deaths in 2nd wave (Sep-now) have been 28% for men and 18% for women of the 1st wave (Mar-Jun). Across the...
Dan Ryan Dec 28, 2020 2 min Shining a light on the 2nd wave The rapid rollout of the Pfizer vaccine across the UK has the potential to dramatically reduce the number of excess deaths given the...
Dan Ryan Dec 22, 2020 1 min Exposing the inequity of COVID-19 For many months we have seen how COVID-19 exacerbates existing differences, targeting the elderly, many with chronic disease and those...
Dan Ryan Dec 20, 2020 4 min Remembering 640,000 lives lost in the UK this year, including the 65,000 lost because of COVID-19. For many years, countless strategy presentations looked forward to 2020 as a totemic year. It has been, but not for any of the reasons...
Dan Ryan Nov 7, 2020 1 min Our hospitals at start of November As England moved to Tier 4 last Thursday and an attenuated version of the first national lockdown, we update our prior analysis of...
Dan Ryan Oct 18, 2020 2 min Do you know your blood group? Back in June, a meta-analysis study across China and the USA investigated the relationship between different blood groups (O, A, B, & AB)...
Dan Ryan Oct 16, 2020 1 min The power of mutation Our battle with COVID-19 has developed unprecedented insights into the foe that we face, with almost 150,000 samples sequenced and made...
Dan Ryan Sep 28, 2020 2 min Pooling COVID-19 samples - not a new solution Although the UK has one of the highest rates of COVID-19 testing in the world, we are struggling with demand - with Baroness Dido Harding...
Dan Ryan Sep 23, 2020 3 min COVID-19 and superspreaders The oft repeated mantra is that COVID-19 is not flu. And on the night that curfews are announced for pubs, bars and restaurants across...
Dan Ryan Sep 21, 2020 2 min Why colds are more common in winter? As we were warned today that the number of COVID-19 infections in the UK could soar to 50,000 a day by mid-October, let us expand our...
Dan Ryan Sep 20, 2020 1 min Winter is coming, but it is not here yet At the end of last month we shared some analysis of COVID-19 hospitalisation rates, thanks to ECDC and US Covid-Net. Three weeks on...
Dan Ryan Aug 29, 2020 2 min The metrics of COVID-19 “Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand...
Dan Ryan May 26, 2020 1 min Recognising those we have lost At 4.42pm today, it was announced that 37,048 lives had been lost in the UK because of COVID-19. That is a tragic statement, and nothing...
Dan Ryan May 20, 2020 1 min Unravelling excess mortality in UK - 2 weeks ago Bringing together ONS weekly registrations today with predictions based on NHS England data highlights that over the 8 week period to May...
Dan Ryan May 1, 2020 1 min Our immune system in the battle against COVID-19 In a publication with Swiss Re, we explore the landscape of COVID-19 testing and explain why our immune responses to the virus are so...
Dan Ryan Apr 25, 2020 1 min Need to focus on when deaths happened, not when reported Over 3 weeks ago, NHS England started providing us with vital information on when deaths in NHS hospitals actually happened rather than...
Dan Ryan Apr 22, 2020 1 min Shining a light on homes and nursing homes Today the ONS released their anticipated (but dreaded) update on deaths registered in England & Wales up until 10 April. The stark...
Dan Ryan Mar 31, 2020 3 min Why so many negative SARS-CoV2 tests in UK? According to Public Health England, over the last 24 hour recorded cycle, according to DoHSC, 8,240 individuals were tested in the UK for...
Dan Ryan Mar 25, 2020 2 min Tracking COVID-19 "Necessity is the mother of invention". Opportunities to learn more about the spread of SARS-CoV-2 have been missed. This was to be...
Dan Ryan Mar 21, 2020 2 min SARS-CoV-2 Antibody test and specificity "Testing, testing, testing" has been the mantra from the head of the World Health Organisation, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The...
