12 November 2021 Who are we? The Disinformation Project was brought together by Te Pūnaha Matatini, a Centre of Research Excellence hosted by the University of Auckland. We are a team of researchers from diverse academic backgrounds, including history, sociology,...
10 November 2021 We use a stochastic branching process model to investigate the risk of border-related outbreaks of COVID-19 and strategies to mitigate this risk. In this paper we couple a simple model of quarantine and testing strategies for international travellers...
9 November 2021 Since February 2020 a small interdisciplinary team, The Disinformation Project, has been observing and analysing open source, publicly available data related to Covid-19 mis- and disinformation on social media, mainstream media, and in physical and...
27 October 2021 We use a branching process model to simulate the Auckland August 2021 outbreak through to early January 2022, including the effects of increasing vaccine coverage by age group and time. Based on vaccination data and bookings for the Auckland...
26 October 2021 Report provided 1 September 2021, this version published after internal peer review 15 October 2021 We use the contagion network model to project case numbers and thus hospital and critical care numbers for the current Auckland outbreak of August 2021,...