Non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A review

N Perra - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Infectious diseases and human behavior are intertwined. On one side, our movements and
interactions are the engines of transmission. On the other, the unfolding of viruses might …

Commentary on the use of the reproduction number R during the COVID-19 pandemic

C Vegvari, S Abbott, F Ball… - … Methods in Medical …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the reproduction number [Formula: see text]
has become a popular epidemiological metric used to communicate the state of the …

Controlling the pandemic during the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination rollout

J Viana, CH van Dorp, A Nunes, MC Gomes… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
There is a consensus that mass vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 will ultimately end the
COVID-19 pandemic. However, it is not clear when and which control measures can be …

Estimating the reproductive number R0 of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States and eight European countries and implications for vaccination

R Ke, E Romero-Severson, S Sanche… - Journal of theoretical …, 2021 - Elsevier
SARS-CoV-2 rapidly spread from a regional outbreak to a global pandemic in just a few
months. Global research efforts have focused on developing effective vaccines against …

Predicting the second wave of COVID-19 in Washtenaw County, MI

M Renardy, M Eisenberg, D Kirschner - Journal of theoretical biology, 2020 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the patchwork nature of disease epidemics, with
infection spread dynamics varying wildly across countries and across states within the US …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges for modelling interventions for future pandemics

ME Kretzschmar, B Ashby, E Fearon, CE Overton… - Epidemics, 2022 - Elsevier
Mathematical modelling and statistical inference provide a framework to evaluate different
non-pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical interventions for the control of epidemics that has …

Model-based evaluation of school-and non-school-related measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic

G Rozhnova, CH van Dorp… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The role of school-based contacts in the epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 is incompletely
understood. We use an age-structured transmission model fitted to age-specific …

Isolation and contact tracing can tip the scale to containment of COVID-19 in populations with social distancing

ME Kretzschmar, G Rozhnova, M Van Boven - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
SARS-CoV-2 has established itself in all parts of the world, and many countries have
implemented social distancing as a measure to prevent overburdening of health care …

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 …

Herd immunity

B Ashby, A Best - Current biology, 2021 - cell.com
Herd immunity is an important yet often misunderstood concept in epidemiology. As
immunity accumulates in a population—naturally during the course of an epidemic or …