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 …

Once we have it, will we use it? A European survey on willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19

S Neumann-Böhme, NE Varghese, I Sabat… - The European Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
While the focus of attention currently is on developing a vaccine against the Coronavirus
SARS-CoV-2 to protect against the disease COVID-19, policymakers should prepare for the …

Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 screening strategies to permit the safe reopening of college campuses in the United States

AD Paltiel, A Zheng, RP Walensky - JAMA network open, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses an existential threat
to many US residential colleges; either they open their doors to students in September or …

Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, Rt

KM Gostic, L McGough, EB Baskerville… - PLoS computational …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Estimation of the effective reproductive number R t is important for detecting changes in
disease transmission over time. During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, confidence, and public engagement: a global social listening study

Z Hou, Y Tong, F Du, L Lu, S Zhao, K Yu… - Journal of medical …, 2021 - jmir.org
Background Monitoring public confidence and hesitancy is crucial for the COVID-19 vaccine
rollout. Social media listening (infoveillance) can not only monitor public attitudes on COVID …

Real-time pandemic surveillance using hospital admissions and mobility data

SJ Fox, M Lachmann, M Tec, R Pasco… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Forecasting the burden of COVID-19 has been impeded by limitations in data, with case
reporting biased by testing practices, death counts lagging far behind infections, and …

State-level needs for social distancing and contact tracing to contain COVID-19 in the United States

WA Chiu, R Fischer, ML Ndeffo-Mbah - Nature Human Behaviour, 2020 - nature.com
Starting in mid-May 2020, many US states began relaxing social-distancing measures that
were put in place to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. To evaluate the impact of relaxation of …

Prevalence and potential determinants of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Qatar: results from a nationally representative survey of Qatari nationals and …

SM Khaled, C Petcu, L Bader, I Amro… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Global COVID-19 pandemic containment necessitates understanding the risk of hesitance or
resistance to vaccine uptake in different populations. The Middle East and North Africa …

Effect of specific non-pharmaceutical intervention policies on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the counties of the United States

B Yang, AT Huang, B Garcia-Carreras, WE Hart… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) remain the only widely available tool for controlling
the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. We estimated weekly values of the effective basic …

[HTML][HTML] Underdetected dispersal and extensive local transmission drove the 2022 mpox epidemic

MI Paredes, N Ahmed, M Figgins, V Colizza, P Lemey… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Summary The World Health Organization declared mpox a public health emergency of
international concern in July 2022. To investigate global mpox transmission and population …