@ReactStudy

REACT is an @imperialcollege-led research programme with @IpsosMORI, using home testing to track England's COVID-19 epidemic.

 London, England
imperial.ac.uk/medicine/research-and-impact/groups/react-study/
Joined October 2021
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Simple, at-home #COVID19 antibody tests could provide insights into risk of hospitalisation and death. New research from our @ReactStudy published this week in @NatureComms could inform timing and roll-out of Covid-19 #vaccine boosters ow.ly/2pWh50PAQF6
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New job opportunities in epidemic preparedness & response at @LSHTM: Assistant Professor in Molecular Epidemiology with UK-PHRST, deadline 6 Jan: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.asp… Research assistant in pandemic response planning, deadline 20 Jan: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.asp…
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And probably the most important and urgent study using postal push-to-web we will ever do: Nicholas Gilby presented the methodology and learnings from running the @ReactStudy survey for @imperialcollege at the RSS 4/
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How have symptoms changed with different variants of #COVID? 🦠 A new paper from our @ReactStudy, published in @NatureComms, looked at more than 17,000 who tested positive on a PCR test between May 2020 and March 2022. ow.ly/byEI50LR7gB
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REACT study retweeted
Oliver Eales@eales9625 Nov 2022
Our latest paper from the @ReactStudy is now available @PLOSCompBiol. We investigate how SARS-CoV-2 infection prevalence changed during England’s ‘roadmap out of lockdown’ journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…

Trends in SARS-CoV-2 infection prevalence during England’s roadmap out of lockdown, January to July...

Author summary Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in England there has been a high rate of testing. However, the case data obtained from this mass testing is prone to many biases due to changing...

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How have symptoms of COVID-19 changed with different variants? Our new paper describes symptoms from 17,448 PCR-positive people diagnosed in the community @ReactStudy from 2020 to 2022. A thread. @grahamscooke @wendybarclay11 @DrJoshuaElliott 1/ nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Variant-specific symptoms of COVID-19 in a study of 1,542,510 adults in England

Nature Communications - In this study, the authors assess changing symptom profiles associated with different SARS-CoV-2 variants from May 2020 to March 2022 in England. Using data from the REACT-1...

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📣 NEW BLOG POST COG-UK has contributed to a number of national studies to understand more about the transmission and evolution of SARS-CoV-2, one of them is the @ReactStudy @imperialcollege @IpsosMORI 👇🏻 cogconsortium.uk/why-the-rea…
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The "R" in @ReactStudy is for "REAl-time". The last two real-time papers to be published are now available 1/4
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Want to know more about the REACT Long COVID Study? Check out our recent update report which highlights our progress so far, early insights & related #PPIE opportunities. Go to our project webpage & scroll down to find it: bit.ly/3OAi544 @ReactStudy @profhelenward
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So pleasing to get such positive feedback for the whole @ReactStudy team from @UKHSA and @uksciencechief. We're very proud of the work we did from May 2020 to March 2022, and of the ongoing research into longer-term impacts of infection #longcovid @grahamscooke @KellyIpsosUK
UK Health Security Agency
@UKHSA21 Jul 2022
To everyone who helped make the #REACT study happen, from scientists to kit makers, lab technicians to everyone else involved, and all those who supported them - thank you! 👏👏👏
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Delighted to have been part of the celebration event for @ReactStudy. An amazing achievement by @IpsosUK @imperial @grahamscooke @profhelenward @UKHSA and so many more. Jenny’s heartfelt words of appreciation speak for all of us.
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. @ReactStudy participants uploaded nearly 600,000 images of their antibody tests - here we describe how machine-learning enabled automated image analysis was able to improve accuracy for community surveillance. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3581…

Machine learning to support visual auditing of home-based lateral flow immunoassay self-test...

Given the potential for LFIAs to be used at scale in the COVID-19 response (for both antibody and antigen testing), even a small improvement in the accuracy of the algorithms could impact the lives...

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Artificial Intelligence (#AI) could improve the accuracy of reading at-home antibody tests for COVID-19 to better inform public health decisions, like when to offer booster vaccines. 🧵1/8
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It is happening! Join us at the #ExRdFest this Saturday and Sunday. ➡️Visit our stalls #FestivalFever, @ReactStudy stand, Stormy Weather Lounge, Peoples Research Cafe, Data Murmurations, Written Portraits and many more. 🌞See you there!
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On the @ReactStudy and the importance of co-design in #PatientSafety @maximustiberius at #PSTRCsymposium says: "Patients and members of the public were intimately involved in the design in the home testing kits and were instrumental to the success of REACT.” @YH_PSTRC @PSTRC_GM
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INTERACTIVE: The #COVID @ReactStudy partnership between Ipsos and @ImperialCollege with 3,418,788 participants (thank you to them) taught us 5 things about the pandemic imperial.ac.uk/stories/pande… #ImperialStories

Learning from the pandemic in real-time

Learning from the pandemic in real-time

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Gary Welch@Gary_Welch25 May 2022
Excellent article from @imperialcollege on the @ReactStudy we at @IpsosUK worked on. 👇 Learning from the pandemic in real-time imperial.ac.uk/stories/pande…

Learning from the pandemic in real-time

Learning from the pandemic in real-time

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What has real-time analysis told us about #COVID19? In a new #ImperialStories feature, explore five things our @ReactStudy has taught us about the pandemic ow.ly/ZYQG50JhpvJ

Learning from the pandemic in real-time

Learning from the pandemic in real-time

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#LongCovid symptoms in a community study of >600,000 people in England The researchers estimate that 22%-38% of people had at least one symptom 12 weeks after testing #SARSCoV2 positive, & identify risk factors for persistent symptoms @ReactStudy go.nature.com/3wOtgPN
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This paper from the REACT-1 study covers Autumn 2021, ie delta. Shows population-level impacts of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination programme on infection as well as admission and deaths 1/2 @ReactStudy sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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