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Stern: UK study shows which vaccination strategy is "optimal"

German news. The British research team from the University of Warwick has examined, among other things, which vaccination strategy is most likely to minimize deaths as a result of corona disease. The result is clear. In all of the simulated scenarios it was shown that "vaccinating the oldest and most vulnerable people has the greatest effect," they write in the Lancet.

See also Bolsamania (Spanish); Redaccion Medica (Spanish)

Tue 11 May 2021, 14:06 | Tags: COVID19, Coverage, Expert comment

Media Inaf: Hydroxyl radicals in the atmosphere of Wasp-33b

Italian news. Thanks to data obtained from the Ird infrared spectrograph mounted on the Subaru 8.2-meter telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, a team of astronomers discovered the signature of the hydroxyl radical in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter Wasp-33b. With the comment of Matteo Brogi, professor at the University of Warwick, in the United Kingdom, Inaf associate and co-author of the study

Fri 30 Apr 2021, 12:47 | Tags: Coverage

20 Minutos: Is Covid a winter disease? This is what the experts say

Spanish news. Professor Lawrence Young, a virologist at the University of Warwick, says the weight of the evidence is now such that he is "cautiously confident" that "Covid infections will remain low in the summer and continue to appear in the winter."

Thu 29 Apr 2021, 11:34 | Tags: COVID19, Coverage, Expert comment

Le Monde: "The fight against global warming is at the centre of everything, except for economists"

French news. In September 2019, two eminent economics professors, one at the University of Warwick, Andrew Oswald, the other at the London School of economics, Nicholas Stern, made a startling observation: of the 77,000 articles published by The most renowned academic journals in economics, only 57 concerned the theme of climate change, i.e. a proportion of 0.074%.

Thu 29 Apr 2021, 11:29 | Tags: Coverage, Expert comment

Il Sole 24 Ore: Lotus campus at Warwick

Italian news. "Announced last year, Lotus Advanced technology is located on the campus of WMG, University of Warwick, in the Midlands, where high-voltage systems for electric power will be developed. In addition, Geely innovation in Gothenburg, Sweden and the Gatd research and development site, Geely auto technical Deutschland in Frankfurt, Germany." See also Valenica Cars (Spanish)

Thu 29 Apr 2021, 11:12 | Tags: Coverage

Der Bund: Vaccinated people are less contagious after the first dose

Swiss news. Even people who personally fear no serious illness in the event of an infection should urgently get vaccinated in order to provide the general population with a higher degree of protection, warns the epidemiologist Dr Mike Tildesley from the University of Warwick. A Public Health England study shows that "as many people as possible" need to be vaccinated, said Tildesley.

See also La Repubblica (Italian); Corriere della Serra (Italian)

Thu 29 Apr 2021, 11:01 | Tags: COVID19, Coverage, Expert comment

Euronews: Miscarriage too often minimised in the world

French news across Europe. New research shows that miscarriage, which affects one in ten women in the world, is often minimised in society. Professor Siobhan Quenby, Warwick Medical School, was involved in the study and is interviewed/quoted here.

See also BBC Afrique (French); RTL (Dutch); National Geographic Polska (Polish); Euronews (Italian); AGI (Italian); Euronews (Portuguese); Tages Schau (German); Le Temps (Swiss/French language)

Wed 28 Apr 2021, 13:35 | Tags: Coverage, Expert comment

Fortune Greece: Most Powerful Women in Finance

Fotini Ioannou, General Manager of Corporate and Retail Receivables Management, National Bank, holds a degree in Cambridge Economics with a Master's degree from Warwick Business School.

Fri 23 Apr 2021, 12:01 | Tags: Coverage

Search for planetary remains and new mathematical concepts at University of Warwick receive over €4 million European research funding

Scientists at the University of Warwick are to benefit from a total of over €4 million funding to support new projects that will aim to find and analyse the remains of planets around nearby dead stars, and to find new ways of incorporating the ideas of combinatorics into different areas of mathematics.

Fri 23 Apr 2021, 11:54 | Tags: Coverage

BBC Mundo: How Paraguay got caught in the historic fight between Taiwan and China

Spanish global news. "In a study published in 2020 in the journal Foreign Policy Analysis , academics Francisco Urdinez, from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and Tom Long, from the University of Warwick, in the United Kingdom, estimated how much its historic alliance with Taiwan costs"

 

Wed 21 Apr 2021, 13:40 | Tags: Coverage, Expert comment

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