Thinking clearly about social aspects of infectious disease transmission

C Buckee, A Noor, L Sattenspiel - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Social and cultural forces shape almost every aspect of infectious disease transmission in
human populations, as well as our ability to measure, understand, and respond to …

Misconceptions about weather and seasonality must not misguide COVID-19 response

CJ Carlson, ACR Gomez, S Bansal, SJ Ryan - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Weather may marginally affect COVID-19 dynamics, but misconceptions about the way that
climate and weather drive exposure and transmission have adversely shaped risk …

[PDF][PDF] Non-pharmaceutical public health measures for mitigating the risk and impact of epidemic and pandemic influenza: annex: report of systematic literature …

World Health Organization - 2019 - apps.who.int
New influenza A viruses emerge in humans from time to time, causing global pandemics.
The most recent influenza pandemic began in 2009 with the influenza A (H1N1) pdm09 …

Changing travel patterns in China during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic

H Gibbs, Y Liu, CAB Pearson, CI Jarvis… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding changes in human mobility in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic is
crucial for assessing the impacts of travel restrictions designed to reduce disease spread …

The impact of regular school closure on seasonal influenza epidemics: a data-driven spatial transmission model for Belgium

GD Luca, KV Kerckhove, P Coletti, C Poletto… - BMC infectious …, 2018 - Springer
Background School closure is often considered as an option to mitigate influenza epidemics
because of its potential to reduce transmission in children and then in the community. The …

Statistical estimation of the reproductive number from case notification data

LF White, CB Moser, RN Thompson… - American Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The reproductive number, or reproduction number, is a valuable metric in understanding
infectious disease dynamics. There is a large body of literature related to its use and …

[HTML][HTML] The stationarity bias in research on the environmental determinants of health

MP Kwan - Health & Place, 2021 - Elsevier
An implicit assumption often made in research on the environmental determinants of health
is that the relationships between environmental factors and their health effects are stable …

Seasonal variation in SARS-CoV-2 transmission in temperate climates: A Bayesian modelling study in 143 European regions

T Gavenčiak, JT Monrad, G Leech… - PLoS computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Although seasonal variation has a known influence on the transmission of several
respiratory viral infections, its role in SARS-CoV-2 transmission remains unclear. While there …

The missing season: the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on influenza

CM Zipfel, V Colizza, S Bansal - Vaccine, 2021 - Elsevier
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many have worried that the additional burden of
seasonal influenza would create a devastating scenario, resulting in overwhelmed …

Dynamic Bayesian influenza forecasting in the United States with hierarchical discrepancy (with discussion)

D Osthus, J Gattiker, R Priedhorsky, SY Del Valle - 2019 - projecteuclid.org
Dynamic Bayesian Influenza Forecasting in the United States with Hierarchical Discrepancy
(with Discussion) Page 1 Bayesian Analysis (2019) 14, Number 1, pp. 261–312 Dynamic …