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Tom Ward

- Verified email at google.com - Cited by 2165

Tom JC Ward

- Verified email at lboro.ac.uk - Cited by 1188

[HTML][HTML] Does infection with or vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 lead to lasting immunity?

…, N Gent, A Johnsen, RM Anderson, T Ward - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Many nations are pursuing the rollout of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines as an exit strategy from
unprecedented COVID-19-related restrictions. However, the success of this strategy relies …

Deepmind lab

C Beattie, JZ Leibo, D Teplyashin, T Ward… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
… The interaction with the platform is lock-stepped, with the engine stepped forward one
simulation step (or multiple with repeated actions, if desired) at a time, according to a user-…

Trends, regional variation, and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 vaccine recipients: a retrospective cohort study in 23.4 million patients using OpenSAFELY

…, G Hickman, C Bates, R Croker, D Evans, T Ward… - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Background On December 8th 2020, NHS England administered the first COVID-19 vaccination
as part of an ambitious vaccination programme during a global health emergency. Aims …

Real-time monitoring of COVID-19 dynamics using automated trend fitting and anomaly detection

…, M Jit, S Flasche, F Greaves, T Ward… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
As several countries gradually release social distancing measures, rapid detection of new
localized COVID-19 hotspots and subsequent intervention will be key to avoiding large-scale …

Impala: Scalable distributed deep-rl with importance weighted actor-learner architectures

…, K Simonyan, V Mnih, T Ward… - International …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this work we aim to solve a large collection of tasks using a single reinforcement learning
agent with a single set of parameters. A key challenge is to handle the increased amount of …

Mahler measure and entropy for commuting automorphisms of compact groups

D Lind, K Schmidt, T Ward - Inventiones mathematicæ, 1990 - Springer
We compute the joint entropy ofd commuting automorphisms of a compact metrizable group.
LetR d = ℤ[u 1 ±1 ,...,[d 1 ±1 ] be the ring of Laurent polynomials ind commuting variables, …

[HTML][HTML] Risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes associated with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases and immune-modifying therapies: a nationwide cohort study in …

…, R Croker, S Bacon, G Hickman, T Ward… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background The risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes in people with immune-mediated
inflammatory diseases and on immune-modifying drugs might not be fully mediated by …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in COVID-19-related mortality across key demographic and clinical subgroups in England from 2020 to 2022: a retrospective cohort study using the …

…, SCJ Bacon, G Hickman, D Evans, T Ward… - The Lancet public …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background COVID-19 has been shown to differently affect various demographic and
clinical population subgroups. We aimed to describe trends in absolute and relative COVID-19-…

Clinical coding of long COVID in English primary care: a federated analysis of 58 million patient records in situ using OpenSAFELY

…, C Bates, R Croker, D Evans, T Ward… - British Journal of …, 2021 - bjgp.org
Background Long COVID describes new or persistent symptoms at least 4 weeks after onset
of acute COVID-19. Clinical codes to describe this phenomenon were recently created. Aim …

Comparative effectiveness of sotrovimab and molnupiravir for prevention of severe covid-19 outcomes in patients in the community: observational cohort study with the …

…, S Davy, J Cockburn, CE Morton, G Hickman, T Ward… - bmj, 2022 - bmj.com
Objective To compare the effectiveness of sotrovimab (a neutralising monoclonal antibody)
with molnupiravir (an antiviral) in preventing severe outcomes of covid-19 in adult patients …