The BC COVID-19 Modelling Group works on rapid response modelling of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a special focus on British Columbia and Canada.

The interdisciplinary group, working independently from Government, includes experts in epidemiology, mathematics, and data analysis from UBC, SFU, UVic, and the private sector, with support from the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.

Recent Posts

COVID Model Projections - May 18, 2022
The BC COVID-19 Modelling team issued their twenty-second report on the status of COVID-19 in British Columbia (May 18th, 2022). This report focuses on the ongoing Omicron BA.2 wave, which appears to have peaked in BC and elsewhere in Canada, and examines data for new variants.
2022-05-18 1 min read reports
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COVID Model Projections - April 27, 2022
The BC COVID-19 Modelling team issued their twenty-first report on the status of COVID-19 in British Columbia (April 27th, 2022). This report focuses on the ongoing Omicron BA.2 wave and addresses the question of when it will peak and how big its impact will be.
2022-04-27 1 min read reports
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COVID Model Projections - April 27, 2022
COVID Model Projections - April 6, 2022
The BC COVID-19 Modelling team issued their twentieth report on the status of COVID-19 in British Columbia (April 6th, 2022). This report focuses on the Omicron variant, BA.2, which is rising rapidly in frequency and is now causing an uptick in cases and hospitalizations, beginning a second Omicron wave in BC.
2022-04-06 1 min read reports
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COVID Model Projections - April 6, 2022
COVID Model Projections - March 17, 2022
The BC COVID-19 Modelling team issued their nineteenth report on the status of COVID-19 in British Columbia (March 17th, 2022). This report focuses on the Omicron variant, BA.2, which is rising rapidly in frequency and now accounts for ~50% of infections in Canada. Nevertheless, numbers of BA.2 are roughly steady at the moment.
2022-03-17 1 min read reports
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COVID Model Projections - March 17, 2022
COVID Model Projections - February 17, 2022
The BC COVID-19 Modelling team issued their eighteenth report on the status of COVID-19 in British Columbia (February 17th, 2022). This report focuses on the Omicron variant, which is spreading rapidly in Canada, even among those fully vaccinated. UPDATED: Information about the spread of BA.2 in Alberta has been removed because samples were first typed by PCR and BA.2 preferentially sequenced (causing publicly available data to overestimate the current frequency of BA.2).
2022-02-17 1 min read reports
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COVID Model Projections - February 17, 2022
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Recent Publications

Scientific Papers and Reports

Can auxiliary indicators improve COVID-19 forecasting and hotspot prediction?
Short-term forecasts of traditional streams from public health reporting (such as cases, hospitalizations, and deaths) are a key input …
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Can auxiliary indicators improve COVID-19 forecasting and hotspot prediction?
Vaccination of Front-Line Workers with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine: Benefits in the Face of Increased Risk for Prothrombotic Thrombocytopenia
Background

In March 2021, a number of regulatory and advisory bodies around the world recommended against using the AstraZeneca …
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Vaccination of Front-Line Workers with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine: Benefits in the Face of Increased Risk for Prothrombotic Thrombocytopenia
Quantifying transmissibility of COVID-19 and impact of intervention within long-term health care facilities
Estimates of the basic reproduction number (R0) for Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are particularly variable in the context of …
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Quantifying transmissibility of COVID-19 and impact of intervention within long-term health care facilities
Importance of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy in older age groups
Importance

An effective vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 will reduce morbidity and mortality and allow substantial relaxation of physical …
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Importance of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy in older age groups
Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence through integration of serology and incidence data
Serology tests for SARS-CoV-2 provide a paradigm for estimating the number of individuals who have had infection in the past (including …
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Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence through integration of serology and incidence data
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Recent & Upcoming Talks

Real Time Modelling of the 2020 Coronavirus Epidemic
I will talk about mathematical modelling reports from around the world for the emerging novel coronavirus epidemic. I will explain the …
2020-03-09
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Meet the Team

Researchers

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Ailene MacPherson

Assistant Professor

Evolution, Ecology and Epidemiology, Mathematical Biology

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Caroline Colijn

Canada 150 Chair, SFU

Infectious Disease Modelling, Computational techniques, Mathematical Biology, Evolution

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Dan Coombs

Professor, UBC

Infectious disease modelling, Computational techniques, Mathematical Biology

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Daniel J. McDonald

Associate Professor of Statistics, University of British Columbia

Machine learning, Risk estimation, Computational approximations, Time series, Applications in economics, biology, chemistry, finance and music

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Dean Karlen

R.M Pearce Professor of Physics, University of Victoria and TRIUMF

Electroweak physics, Neutrino physics, Detector development

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Elisha Are

Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics, Simon Fraser University

Infectious Disease Modelling, Mathematical Biology

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Eric Cytrynbaum

Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of British Columbia

Bacterial cell division, Microtubule and cellular organization, Wave propagation in excitable media

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Jens von Bergmann

Engineer at MountainMath Software

Data, Analysis, Visualization

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Rob James

evidently.ca

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Sarah "Sally" Otto

Canada Research Chair in Theoretical and Experimental Evolution, UBC

Evolutionary modelling, Infectious Disease Modelling, Biodiversity, Mathematical Biology

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Paul Tupper

Professor of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University

Applied Mathematics, Stochastic differential equations

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Amin Adibi

Statistical Research Analyst, University of British Columbia

Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Predictive Analytics

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Mohsen Sadatsafavi

Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Medical Decision Making, Predictive Analytics

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Brendon Phillips

Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Epidemiology

Computational Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Modelling

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Bryn Wiley

Research Assistant in Evolution and Epidemiology

Mathematical and statistical biology, Evolutionary biology

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Cedric Chauve

Professor of Mathematics, SFU

Computational Biology, Pathogens Bioinformatics, Mathematical Biology

Support

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James Colliander

Professor of Mathematics, University of British Columbia

PDE, Harmonic Analysis, Dynamical systems, Interactive Computing

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Ian Allison

PIMS Technology Manager

Computational Methods, Interactive Computing, Technical Support

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