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Improving modelling for epidemic responses: reflections from members of the UK infectious disease modelling community on their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]

Wellcome Open Research
Background The COVID-19 pandemic both relied and placed significant burdens on the experts involved from research and public health sectors. The sustained high pressure of a pandemic on responders, such as healthcare workers, can lead to lasting ...
Carl A B Pearson, Anne Cori, Christopher Overton, Sabine van Elsland, Christopher I Jarvis, Edward M Hill, Dale Weston, Edward Knock, Kiesha Prem, Sam Abbott, Joel Hellewell, Sebastian Funk, Elizabeth Fearon, Julián Villabona Arenas, W John Edmunds, Michelle Kendall, Li Pi, Nicholas Davies, Neil Ferguson, Timothy Russell, Rosalind M Eggo, Yang Liu, Adam Kucharski, Marc Baguelin, Katharine Sherratt, Emily Nightingale, Anna C Carnegie   +26 more
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Mathematical modelling of vaccination rollout and NPIs lifting on COVID-19 transmission with VOC: a case study in Toronto, Canada

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Since December 2020, public health agencies have implemented a variety of vaccination strategies to curb the spread of SARS-CoV-2, along with pre-existing Nonpharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs).
Elena Aruffo, Pei Yuan, Yi Tan, Evgenia Gatov, Iain Moyles, Jacques Bélair, James Watmough, Sarah Collier, Julien Arino, Huaiping Zhu   +9 more
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Canadian Covid-19 pandemic public health mitigation measures at the province level

Scientific Data, 2023
The Covid-19 pandemic has prompted governments across the world to enforce a range of public health interventions. We introduce the Covid-19 Policy Response Canadian tracker (CPRCT) database that tracks and records implemented public health measures in ...
Anna Akanteva, David W. Dick, Shirin Amiraslani, Jane M. Heffernan   +3 more
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Estimating the impact of reopening schools on the reproduction number of SARS-CoV-2 in England, using weekly contact survey data

BMC Medicine, 2021
Background Schools were closed in England on 4 January 2021 as part of increased national restrictions to curb transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The UK government reopened schools on 8 March.
James D. Munday, Christopher I. Jarvis, Amy Gimma, Kerry L. M. Wong, Kevin van Zandvoort, CMMID COVID-19 Working Group, Sebastian Funk, W. John Edmunds   +7 more
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Modeling Human Disease [PDF]

Science, 2012
The astonishing recent advances in the technology for determining DNA sequences have made personalized genomics a foreseeable reality for the doctor's office. This technology has started a whole new gold rush for human disease gene discovery and produced an onslaught of information that represents a new challenge in personalized medicine: connecting ...
Aaron D, Gitler, Ruth, Lehmann
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Correspondence to: Estimating the full health and economic benefits of current and future influenza vaccines

BMC Medicine, 2023
We recently published an article in BMC Medicine looking at the potential health and economic impact of paediatric vaccination using next-generation influenza vaccines in Kenya: a modelling study.
Naomi R. Waterlow, Simon R. Procter, Rosalind M. Eggo, Mark Jit   +3 more
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SARS-CoV-2 infection risk during delivery of childhood vaccination campaigns: a modelling study

BMC Medicine, 2021
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the delivery of immunisation services globally. Many countries have postponed vaccination campaigns out of concern about infection risks to the staff delivering vaccination, the children being vaccinated ...
Simon R. Procter, Kaja Abbas, Stefan Flasche, Ulla Griffiths, Brittany Hagedorn, Kathleen M. O’Reilly, CMMID COVID-19 Working Group, Mark Jit   +7 more
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Children’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review of early surveillance data on susceptibility, severity, and transmissibility

Scientific Reports, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 infections have been reported in all age groups including infants, children, and adolescents. However, the role of children in the COVID-19 pandemic is still uncertain.
Katy A. M. Gaythorpe, Sangeeta Bhatia, Tara Mangal, H. Juliette T. Unwin, Natsuko Imai, Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg, Caroline E. Walters, Elita Jauneikaite, Helena Bayley, Mara D. Kont, Andria Mousa, Lilith K. Whittles, Steven Riley, Neil M. Ferguson   +13 more
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The effect of travel restrictions on the geographical spread of COVID-19 between large cities in China: a modelling study

BMC Medicine, 2020
Background To contain the spread of COVID-19, a cordon sanitaire was put in place in Wuhan prior to the Lunar New Year, on 23 January 2020. We assess the efficacy of the cordon sanitaire to delay the introduction and onset of local transmission of COVID ...
Billy J. Quilty, Charlie Diamond, Yang Liu, Hamish Gibbs, Timothy W. Russell, Christopher I. Jarvis, Kiesha Prem, Carl A. B. Pearson, Samuel Clifford, Stefan Flasche, CMMID COVID-19 working group, Petra Klepac, Rosalind M. Eggo, Mark Jit   +13 more
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Insights from quantitative and mathematical modelling on the proposed WHO 2030 goals for Chagas disease [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

Gates Open Research, 2019
Chagas disease (CD) persists as one of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) with a particularly large impact in the Americas. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently proposed goals for CD elimination as a public health problem to be reached by ...
Collaborating Group on Chagas Disease Modelling
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