The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation model projects that the daily number of Californians infected is peaking this week. The model suggests that by mid-February, new infections could be 15% of this week’s levels, about the same as mid-December.
January 12, 2022
The Hill
“At this rate, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation forecasts that more than 50 percent of the population in the region will be infected with omicron in the next six to eight weeks,” the regional director for the WHO in Europe, Hans Kluge, said at a press conference on Wednesday.
January 12, 2022
NBC News
Hospital ICU stress, a measure designed to help hospitals plan and manage their surge capacity, was a concept introduced by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
January 12, 2022
The Guardian
A measurement called “disability-adjusted life years” (DALYs), conceived in 1990, attempts to capture the impact of diseases on people’s lives, and led to the Global Burden of Disease Study, comparing morbidity and mortality across diseases and countries.
January 11, 2022
BBC
"Today the Omicron variant represents a new west-to-east tidal wave, sweeping across the region on top of the Delta surge that all countries were managing until late 2021," Dr Kluge told a news conference.
He quoted the Seattle-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation as forecasting that "more than 50 percent of the population in the region will be infected with Omicron in the next six to eight weeks".
January 11, 2022
USA Today
COVID-19 infections peaked Jan. 6, according to researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine.
January 11, 2022
Reuters
"At this rate, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation forecasts that more than 50% of the population in the region will be infected with Omicron in the next 6-8 weeks," Kluge said, referring to a research centre at the University of Washington.
January 11, 2022
CNBC
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation forecasts that more than 50% of the population in the region will be infected with omicron in the next six to eight weeks, Kluge added.
January 11, 2022
Al Jazeera
“At this rate, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation forecasts that more than 50 percent of the population in the region will be infected with Omicron in the next six to eight weeks,” Kluge said.
January 11, 2022
CNN
"At this rate the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation forecasts that more than 50% of the population in the region will be infected with Omicron in the next 6 to 8 weeks."
January 11, 2022
Agencia EFE
"At this rate, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation forecasts that more than 50% of the population in the region will be infected with Omicron in the next 6-8 weeks," WHO-Europe director Hans Kluge said, citing University of Washington data.
January 11, 2022
The Economist
A new study published in Lancet Public Health adds weight to predictions that that number is going to explode.
Source: “Estimation of the global prevalence of dementia in 2019 and forecasted prevalence in 2050: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019”, by Emma Nichols et al., Lancet, 2022.
January 7, 2022
CNN Brasil
Os dados do estudo Global Burden of Disease, que realizou estimativas para 204 países, foram publicados no periódico científico Lancet Public Health. De acordo com o estudo, fatores de risco para demência, como o tabagismo, a obesidade, alto teor de açúcar no sangue e baixa escolaridade também devem impactar o cenário da doença no mundo.
January 7, 2022
The Hill
“We need to focus more on prevention and control of risk factors before they result in dementia. Even modest advances in preventing dementia or delaying its progression would pay remarkable dividends,” Emma Nichols, researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington and lead author of the study, said in a statement.
January 6, 2022
BBC
Lead author Emma Nichols, from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, at the University of Washington, in the US, said: "We need to focus more on prevention and control of risk factors before they result in dementia."
January 6, 2022
The Guardian
The lead author, Emma Nichols, from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, said: “To have the greatest impact, we need to reduce exposure to the leading risk factors in each country. For most, this means scaling up locally appropriate, low-cost programmes that support healthier diets, more exercise, quitting smoking, and better access to education.”
January 6, 2022
ABC News
"Our study offers improved forecasts for dementia on a global scale as well as the country-level, giving policy makers and public health experts new insights to understand the drivers of these increases, based on the best available data," lead author Emma Nichols, from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, said in a statement.
January 5, 2022
Bloomberg
Omicron has tended to burn out quickly in some other countries, but how steep its up-and-down trajectory will be in the U.S. remains an open question. One projection from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington shows the need for hospital resources peaking nationally in mid-February.
January 4, 2022
The Washington Post
“It’s spreading much faster than we ever expected,” said Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at IHME.
January 4, 2022
AP News
Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, said that for each new infection detected, the U.S. is missing two cases. But he said tracking the number of positive test results is still important as omicron makes its way across the land.
January 4, 2022
US News & World Report
"Ensuring that global progress against cancer burden is equitable is crucial," said lead author Dr. Jonathan Kocarnik, a research scientist at the university's Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation.
December 31, 2021
The New York Times
“We are realizing right now monitoring the data that the peak is going to come much faster,” said Ali Mokdad, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington. “My guess is it will happen before mid-January.”
December 30, 2021
Financial Times
Omicron's high transmissibility means an astonishing 3bn infections globally over the next two months, as many as in the first two years of the pandemic, according to modelling by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
December 30, 2021
The New York Times
“We’ll be in for a tough January, as cases will keep going up and peak, and then fall fast,” said Ali Mokdad, a University of Washington epidemiologist who is a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist. While cases will still overwhelm hospitals, he said, he expects that the proportion of hospitalized cases will be lower than in earlier waves.
December 29, 2021
Axios
What we're watching: The University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimates that infections in the U.S. are set to reach record highs in the next two to three months, with daily infections expected to peak at 2.8 million in mid-January.