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Airfinity announces today the launch of Airfinity IDA (Infectious Disease Analytics) 360, a new platform that will provide a comprehensive overview of vaccine and therapeutics candidates across the full infectious disease landscape.

Airfinity IDA 360, a first-of-its-kind product in the health analytics market, will be a centralised source of competitive intelligence, providing clear and near real-time updates on candidate development, clinical trials, approvals, regu

Airfinity has updated its cases and deaths forecast for China’s COVID-19 outbreak as the Lunar New Year holiday hastens the spread of the virus. 

Today’s new forecast considers reports that some provinces including Henan, Gansu, Qinghai and Yunnan have already seen infections peak. 

Our analytics indicators suggest that the virus has spread more quickly to rural areas, partly driven by people traveling for the Chinese New Year celebrations.

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China is predicted to see two peaks in cases as COVID-19 spreads throughout the country, the first peak in mid-January and the second in early March.

New modelling by Airfinity has examined data from China’s regional provinces. The current outbreak is growing more rapidly in some regions than in others. Cases are currently rising much more quickly in Beijing and Guangdong.

Using the trends in regional data our team of epidemiologists has forecast the first peak to be in

Analysis by Airfinity shows between 1.3 and 2.1 million lives could be at risk if China lifts its zero-COVID policy given low vaccination and booster rates as well as a lack of hybrid immunity. 

Airfinity’s risk analysis uses cumulative peak cases and deaths from Hong Kong`s BA.1 wave as a proxy for mainland China. 

Hong Kong took a zero-COVID approach for the first two years of the pandemic. Therefore, when the more transmissible Omicron BA.1 sublineage hit ba

Airfinity predicts a potential ‘twindemic’ of COVID-19 and flu could overwhelm hospitals this winter. 

The analysis focuses on two potential scenarios, based on data from previous winter COVID-19 waves driven by the Alpha and Omicron BA.1 variants as well as historical flu admissions from 2017-2018, the last bad flu season, as another bad flu season is expected this year based on data currently coming out of Australia. 

Airfinity’s forecast shows th