This article reviews the current state of knowledge and promising new directions concerning
the psychology of pandemics. Pandemics are disease outbreaks that spread globally …

Highlights•Respiratory viruses are transmitted via contact, droplets or aerosols.•Most studies
on inter-human transmission routes are inconclusive.•The relative importance of respiratory …

It appears inevitable that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 will continue to
spread. Although we still have limited information on the epidemiology of this virus, there …

Mechanistic hypotheses about airborne infectious disease transmission have traditionally
emphasized the role of coughing and sneezing, which are dramatic expiratory events that …

It is imperative to advance our understanding of heterogeneities in the transmission of SARS-
CoV-2 such as age-specific infectiousness and superspreading. To this end, it is important to …

A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological
modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities. In Epidemic Illusions …

COVID-19 caused rapid mass infection worldwide. Understanding its transmission
characteristics, including heterogeneity and the emergence of super spreading events …

Despite an undergraduate degree in Zoology and an MSc on the behavior of voles, I have
long been fascinated by theoretical biology and the relationship between models and data …

Background Travel restrictions were implemented on an unprecedented scale in 2015 in
Sierra Leone to contain and eliminate Ebola virus disease. However, the impact of epidemic …

When analysing new emerging infectious disease outbreaks, one typically has
observational data over a limited period of time and several parameters to estimate, such as …