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Socioeconomic and Environmental inequalities
The Generalitat of Catalonia grants a project to GRECS to study the role of extreme heat in mortality
16.22% of the deaths in the summer of 2022 in Catalonia were directly attributed to extreme heat.

COVID-19
COVID-19 caused three times more deaths in the world (64% more in Spain) than official data says
Worldwide, the number of deaths is 18 million, three times the number of reported deaths

Cox model
Professor Sir David Cox (1924-2022)
Sir David Cox, one of the world's most influential statisticians, whose "risk model" is used to predict failures such as when a bridge will collapse, when a bank will fail or when a human life will end, died on January 19, 2022.

COVID-19
PandemonCAT presentation

COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic increases inequality

COVID-19
Methodological limitations are evaluated in studies on the effects of environmental and socioeconomic variables on the spread of COVID-19

COVID-19
GRECS researchers develop PandemonCAT, a web application to track updated data on the pandemic

COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic causes the largest demographic crisis in Spain since the Civil War

COVID-19
What the virus figures say (and what they don't): why it is so difficult to judge the mortality from covid in Madrid and each community