The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions–Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach

F Dorn, B Lange, M Braml, D Gstrein… - Economics & Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
Decisions on public health measures to contain a pandemic are often based on parameters
such as expected disease burden and additional mortality due to the pandemic. Both …

A global analysis of COVID-19 infection fatality rate and its associated factors during the Delta and Omicron variant periods: an ecological study

N Thi Hong Nguyen, TY Ou, LD Huy, CL Shih… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is more highly infectious and transmissible
than prior variants of concern. It was unclear which factors might have contributed to the …

Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 infection fatality rate by age and comorbidity status using antibody screening of blood donors during the COVID-19 epidemic in Denmark

KA Kaspersen, L Hindhede, JK Boldsen… - The Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Studies presenting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) infection fatality rate (IFR) for healthy individuals are warranted. We estimate IFR by …

Early report on the severity of COVID‐19 in hematologic patients infected with the SARS‐Cov2 Omicron variant

F Ullrich, C Hanoun, AT Turki… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Patients with hematologic disease are at high risk of morbidity and mortality
from COVID‐19 due to disease‐inherent and therapy‐related immunodeficiency. Whether …

Estimating the infection burden of COVID-19 in Malaysia

VJ Jayaraj, CW Ng, A Bulgiba… - PLOS Neglected …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Malaysia has reported 2.75 million cases and 31,485 deaths as of 30 December 2021.
Underestimation remains an issue due to the underdiagnosis of mild and asymptomatic …

Time-dependent risk of COVID-19 death with overwhelmed health-care capacity in Japan, 2020–2022

K Hayashi, H Nishiura - BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022 - Springer
Background It has been descriptively argued that the case fatality risk (CFR) of coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) is elevated when medical services are overwhelmed. The relationship …

A statistical model for the dynamics of COVID‐19 infections and their case detection ratio in 2020

M Schneble, G De Nicola, G Kauermann… - Biometrical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The case detection ratio of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) infections varies over time
due to changing testing capacities, different testing strategies, and the evolving underlying …

A deconvolution approach to modelling surges in COVID-19 cases and deaths

A Melnyk, L Kozarov, S Wachsmann-Hogiu - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to emphasize the importance of epidemiological
modelling in guiding timely and systematic responses to public health threats. Nonetheless …

Optimal unlabeled set partitioning with application to risk-based quarantine policies

J Lin, H Aprahamian, H El-Amine - IISE Transactions, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We consider the problem of partitioning a set of items into unlabeled subsets so as to
optimize an additive objective, ie, the objective function value of a partition is equal to the …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of the highly virulent SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant on young adults in the state of São Paulo: was it inevitable?

B Spira - Cureus, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had and is still having a
tremendous impact on people all over the world, but it has been particularly harsh in South …