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Akira Endo

Researcher at University of London

Publications -  39
Citations -  4074

Akira Endo is an academic researcher from University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 38 publications receiving 2461 citations. Previous affiliations of Akira Endo include University of Tokyo & The Turing Institute.

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Global, regional, and national estimates of the population at increased risk of severe COVID-19 due to underlying health conditions in 2020: a modelling study.

TL;DR: These estimates provide a starting point for considering the number of individuals that might need to be shielded or vaccinated as the global pandemic unfolds, and focus on underlying conditions rather than other risk factors such as ethnicity, socioeconomic deprivation, and obesity.
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Estimating the overdispersion in COVID-19 transmission using outbreak sizes outside China.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified individual-level variation in COVID-19 transmission by applying a mathematical model to observed outbreak sizes in affected countries and found that 80% of secondary transmissions may have been caused by a small fraction of infectious individuals.