Imperial College London
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ProfessorSerafimKalliadasis

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering

Prof in Engineering Science & Applied Mathematics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 1373s.kalliadasis Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Jessica Baldock +44 (0)20 7594 5699

 
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Location

 

516ACE ExtensionSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@unpublished{Duran-Olivencia:2021:10.1101/2021.04.15.21255510,
author = {Duran-Olivencia, M and Kalliadasis, S},
doi = {10.1101/2021.04.15.21255510},
publisher = {MedRxiv},
title = {More than a year after the onset of the CoVid-19 pandemic in the UK: lessons learned from a minimalistic model capturing essential features including social awareness and policy making},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.15.21255510},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - UNPB
AB  - The number of new daily SARS-CoV-2 infections experienced an abrupt increase during the last quarter of 2020 in almost every European country. The phenomenological explanation offered was a new mutation of the virus, first identified in the UK. We use publicly available data in combination with a time-delayed controlled SIR model, which captures the effects of preventive measures and concomitant social response on the spreading of the virus. The model, which has a unique transmission rate, enables us to reproduce the waves of infection occurred in the UK. This suggests that the new SARS-CoV-2 UK variant is as transmissible as previous strains. Our findings reveal that the sudden surge in cases was in fact related to the relaxation of preventive measures and social awareness. We also simulate the combined effects of restrictions and vaccination campaigns in 2021, demonstrating that lockdown policies are not fully effective to flatten the curve; fully effective mitigation can only be achieved via a vigorous vaccination campaign. As a matter of fact, incorporating recent data about vaccine efficacy, our simulations advocate that the UK might have overcome the worse of the CoVid-19 pandemic, provided that the vaccination campaign maintains a rate of approximately 140k jabs per day.
AU  - Duran-Olivencia,M
AU  - Kalliadasis,S
DO  - 10.1101/2021.04.15.21255510
PB  - MedRxiv
PY  - 2021///
TI  - More than a year after the onset of the CoVid-19 pandemic in the UK: lessons learned from a minimalistic model capturing essential features including social awareness and policy making
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.15.21255510
UR  - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.15.21255510v1.article-info
UR  - https://www.medrxiv.org/
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/87770
ER  -
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