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 …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic review of empirical studies comparing the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19

A Mendez-Brito, C El Bcheraoui, F Pozo-Martin - Journal of Infection, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives To evaluate which non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been more and
less effective in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods We performed a systematic …

[PDF][PDF] COVID-19 and the consequences of isolating the elderly

R Armitage, LB Nellums - The Lancet Public Health, 2020 - cntttest.vanlanguni.edu.vn
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is leading to social
(physical) distancing policies worldwide, including in the USA. Some of the first actions …

Evolving epidemiology and transmission dynamics of coronavirus disease 2019 outside Hubei province, China: a descriptive and modelling study

J Zhang, M Litvinova, W Wang, Y Wang… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic, caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began in Wuhan city, Hubei province, in …

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] Estimating the time-varying reproduction number of SARS-CoV-2 using national and subnational case counts

S Abbott, J Hellewell, RN Thompson… - Wellcome Open …, 2020 - wellcomeopenresearch.org
Background: Interventions are now in place worldwide to reduce transmission of the novel
coronavirus. Assessing temporal variations in transmission in different countries is essential …

Viral variant-resolved wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at national scale

F Amman, R Markt, L Endler, S Hupfauf, B Agerer… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 surveillance by wastewater-based epidemiology is poised to provide a
complementary approach to sequencing individual cases. However, robust quantification of …

Tracking of COVID-19: A new real-time estimation using the Kalman filter

F Arroyo-Marioli, F Bullano, S Kucinskas… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
We develop a new method for estimating the effective reproduction number of an infectious
disease (R) and apply it to track the dynamics of COVID-19. The method is based on the fact …