Rapid review of available evidence on the serial interval and generation time of COVID-19

J Griffin, M Casey, Á Collins, K Hunt, D McEvoy… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
The serial interval is the time between symptom onsets in an infector–infectee pair. The
generation time, also known as the generation interval, is the time between infection events …

High infectiousness immediately before COVID-19 symptom onset highlights the importance of continued contact tracing

WS Hart, PK Maini, RN Thompson - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Background: Understanding changes in infectiousness during SARS-COV-2 infections is
critical to assess the effectiveness of public health measures such as contact tracing …

Inference of the SARS-CoV-2 generation time using UK household data

WS Hart, S Abbott, A Endo, J Hellewell, E Miller… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The distribution of the generation time (the interval between individuals becoming infected
and transmitting the virus) characterises changes in the transmission risk during SARS-CoV …

[HTML][HTML] Data-driven mathematical modeling approaches for COVID-19: A survey

J Demongeot, P Magal - Physics of Life Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
In this review, we successively present the methods for phenomenological modeling of the
evolution of reported and unreported cases of COVID-19, both in the exponential phase of …

Joint estimation of generation time and incubation period for coronavirus disease 2019

YC Lau, TK Tsang, L Kennedy-Shaffer… - The Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a heavy disease
burden globally. The impact of process and timing of data collection on the accuracy of …

Assessing the impact of lateral flow testing strategies on within-school SARS-CoV-2 transmission and absences: a modelling study

T Leng, EM Hill, RN Thompson… - PLoS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Rapid testing strategies that replace the isolation of close contacts through the use of lateral
flow device tests (LFTs) have been suggested as a way of controlling SARS-CoV-2 …

[HTML][HTML] Authors' response: Estimating the generation interval for COVID-19 based on symptom onset data

C Kremer, T Ganyani, D Chen, A Torneri… - …, 2020 - eurosurveillance.org
Eurosurveillance | Authors’ response: Estimating the generation interval for COVID-19 based
on symptom onset data 1887 Other sites: ECDC European Antibiotic Awareness Day ESCAIDE …

Small Data, Big Time—A retrospect of the first weeks of COVID-19

Q Zhao - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This article reviews some early investigations and research studies in the first weeks of the
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic from a statistician's perspective. These …

High infectiousness immediately before COVID-19 symptom onset highlights the importance of contact tracing

WS Hart, PK Maini, RN Thompson - medRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Understanding changes in infectiousness during COVID-19 infections is critical to assess
the effectiveness of public health measures such as contact tracing. Data from known source …

Dynamics and control of infectious disease epidemics: compartmental modelling of variations in infectiousness and symptoms during infection

W Hart - 2022 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Through a series of case studies, this thesis explores how changes in infectiousness and
symptoms during viral infections can be represented and inferred using compartmental …