[HTML][HTML] The origins and potential future of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in the evolving COVID-19 pandemic

SP Otto, T Day, J Arino, C Colijn, J Dushoff, M Li… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
One year into the global COVID-19 pandemic, the focus of attention has shifted to the
emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs). After nearly a year of …

Effectiveness of testing, contact tracing and isolation interventions among the general population on reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2: a systematic review

H Littlecott, C Herd, J O'Rourke… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We conducted a systematic literature review of general population testing, contact tracing,
case isolation and contact quarantine interventions to assess their effectiveness in reducing …

The challenges of containing SARS-CoV-2 via test-trace-and-isolate

S Contreras, J Dehning, M Loidolt, J Zierenberg… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Without a cure, vaccine, or proven long-term immunity against SARS-CoV-2, test-trace-and-
isolate (TTI) strategies present a promising tool to contain its spread. For any TTI strategy …

Controlling COVID-19 via test-trace-quarantine

CC Kerr, D Mistry, RM Stuart, K Rosenfeld… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Initial COVID-19 containment in the United States focused on limiting mobility, including
school and workplace closures. However, these interventions have had enormous societal …

Implication of backward contact tracing in the presence of overdispersed transmission in COVID-19 outbreaks

A Endo, QJ Leclerc, GM Knight… - Wellcome open …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Introduction: Contact tracing has the potential to control outbreaks without the need for
stringent physical distancing policies, eg civil lockdowns. Unlike forward contact tracing …

[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 …

Digital proximity tracing on empirical contact networks for pandemic control

G Cencetti, G Santin, A Longa, E Pigani… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Digital contact tracing is a relevant tool to control infectious disease outbreaks, including the
COVID-19 epidemic. Early work evaluating digital contact tracing omitted important features …

Empirical evidence on the efficiency of backward contact tracing in COVID-19

J Raymenants, C Geenen, J Thibaut, K Nelissen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Standard contact tracing practice for COVID-19 is to identify persons exposed to an infected
person during the contagious period, assumed to start two days before symptom onset or …

GSI: An influential node detection approach in heterogeneous network using covid-19 as use case

RD Shetty, S Bhattacharjee, A Dutta… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growth of COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has turned into an
unprecedented pandemic in the last century. It is crucial to identify superspreading nodes to …

Network community detection via neural embeddings

S Kojaku, F Radicchi, YY Ahn, S Fortunato - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Recent advances in machine learning research have produced powerful neural graph
embedding methods, which learn useful, low-dimensional vector representations of network …