Potential future coronavirus hotspots

In a new paper in BMC Medicine, Nuffield DPhil Mark Verhagen and colleagues from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (including Nuffield Fellows David Brazel and Melinda Mills) highlight the areas at risk of a future spike in cases of COVID-19 using their online tool.

This research has also been covered on the University of Oxford news pages.

(Mark Verhagen, David Brazel, Jennifer Beam Dowd, Ilya Kashnitsky, Melinda Mills, 'Forecasting spatial, socioeconomic and demographic variation in COVID-19 health care demand in England and Wales'. Published in BMC Medicine, doi:10.1186/s12916-020-01646-2)