“This virus is going to be with us for a long time,” said Ali Mokdad, who models the future of infections, hospitalizations and deaths for the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. “We have to live with it and we have to go with the long haul.”
December 3, 2021
The Washington Post
November 25, 2021
CNN
For firearm deaths totals and rates, CNN used the Global Burden of Disease database compiled by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. Firearm-related deaths include physical violence (homicide), self-harm (suicide) and unintentional injuries. While rates are preferable for cross-country comparisons, in the case of suicides we illustrated the totals to highlight the gap between the US and other countries.
November 23, 2021
Politico
COVID-19 is today also the leading cause of death in Europe and Central Asia, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which does modeling for the WHO.
November 23, 2021
VOA News
The region has passed 1.5 million COVID-19 deaths for the pandemic and data compiled for WHO-Europe by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation shows the disease is now the number one cause of death across Europe and central Asia.
November 22, 2021
The Times of India
According to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, the lost output from premature deaths and morbidity due to air pollution accounted for economic losses of $28.8 billion and $8 billion, respectively, in India in 2019.
November 21, 2021
Bloomberg
“Many of our physicians are at a breaking point,” said Ali Mokdad, a professor with the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. “It’s not easy to be day in and day out in an emergency room, in an ICU, looking at someone who is dying because he or she is not vaccinated.”
November 21, 2021
SABC News
Experts say that long-term exposure to toxic air can cause many common heart and lung diseases. According to the 2019 Global Burden of Disease Report, air pollution is one of the important risk factors for death in India in 2019, causing an estimated 1.67 million deaths.
November 21, 2021
New Indian Express
As per the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 estimates, air pollution is the cause of over 1.7 million deaths in India — that is over 1,900 deaths an hour.
November 19, 2021
USA Today
Health officials have been bracing for the possibility of a surge in cases over the winter. The latest projection from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation warns of a worst-case-scenario where cases — fueled by seasonal spread and the delta variant — surge far higher than last winter. However, the projection currently expects cases to stay essentially flat in coming months.
November 18, 2021
NPR
Using data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, which maintains a massive database of health statistics from around the world, researchers analyzed the number of deaths, years of life lost and mortality rates by sex and age groups of young people in 204 countries.
November 18, 2021
NBC
Back with us, Dr. Vin Gupta, critical care pulmonologist in Seattle, who has advised us on public health throughout this pandemic. He's also on the faculty at the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
November 18, 2021
The Hill
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) projected about 863,000 total deaths from the coronavirus pandemic by March 2022. However, the CDC reports 762,994 people have already died in the U.S. from COVID-19. The IHME’s worst-case scenario projection predicts nearly 2 million coronavirus deaths by March 2022.
November 17, 2021
The Guardian
“We see increasing evidence in the northern hemisphere that the expected winter surge has started to unfold,” said Dr Christopher JL Murray, lead modeler at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, as he introduced a new forecast. “Reductions in cases and new infections and hospitalizations have stopped in the US and started to turn around.” IHME’s projection, which Murray described as “optimistic”, forecast 863,000 cumulative deaths from the pandemic by March 2022. Already, more than 765,000 people in the US have died from Covid-19. IHME’s worst-case scenario predicts hundreds of thousands more deaths, for more than 1m pandemic deaths by March 2022.
November 16, 2021
NPR
Americans are moving around like they were before the pandemic, mask wearing is low compared to last year, people are spending more time indoors because of cooler weather, and protection against infection, both from vaccinations and prior infection, is waning, says Ali Mokdad, professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington's Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation.
November 16, 2021
Newsweek
"The biggest threat on the science front has been the inability to deal with deliberate misinformation," said Theo Vos, professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington....As we approach 2022, Vos highlights the importance of making vaccines available in low-to-middle income countries, funded by rich countries, which could delay or reduce the emergence of new escape variants. "The costs of which will easily weigh up against the negative economic consequence of inaction," he said.
November 15, 2021
CNN
"Today is a really sad day," epidemiologist Ali Mokdad, who has been tracking the coronavirus pandemic since the beginning at the University of Washington, told CNN. "Cases are going up. It was coming down. This is at a time when the United States has all the tools we need to prevent a surge, all the tools we need to save lives. We have the best vaccines, and we have plenty of them," he said.
"And people are not willing to get them."
November 15, 2021
NPR
ALI MOKDAD: So we're going to see less mortality in our surge that we are predicting simply because people are vaccinated. And we're not going to see a lot of deaths because the vaccines are playing a big role.
November 14, 2021
CNN
Epidemiologist Ali Mokdad of the University of Washington, where teams have been tracking and forecasting the pandemic from the beginning, was horrified to see unmasked crowds at a recent Texas A&M football game on television. "They all ran onto the field," he said. "No one had a mask on."
November 13, 2021
USA Today
“Delta and waning immunity — the combination of these two have set us back,” said Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington. “This virus is going to stick with us for a long, long time.”
No state has achieved a high enough vaccination rate, even when combined with infection-induced immunity, to avoid the type of outbreaks happening now, Mokdad said.
November 11, 2021
Associated Press
“Delta and waning immunity — the combination of these two have set us back,” said Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington. “This virus is going to stick with us for a long, long time.”
November 10, 2021
Hindustan Times
Air pollution was the top risk factor for death in India in 2019, killing an estimated 1.67 million people, according to the Global Burden of Disease report.
November 9, 2021
Bloomberg
Baja California residents reached mobility rates similar to before the pandemic sooner than many other states, which may explain this latest wave of contagion, Rafael Lozano, a professor at the University of Washington, said in an interview.
November 8, 2021
Ceuta Actualidad
El IHME prevé que alrededor del 30 de diciembre España podría superar incluso las 92.000 infecciones ese día en el mejor de los casos, para descender inmediatamente después. Si se intensifican las medidas restrictivas, incluido el uso de mascarillas obligatorias en todos los lugares, el pico sería mucho más suave y no se superarían ese día los 8.500 casos diagnosticados.
November 8, 2021
Diario AS
El IHME vaticina cómo será en nuestro país el final del año. Repuntarán otra vez los nuevos casos, pero la alta vacunación frenará el número de muertes.
November 7, 2021
Antena 3