Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries

JM Aburto, J Schöley, I Kashnitsky… - International journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Variations in the age patterns and magnitudes of excess deaths, as well as
differences in population sizes and age structures, make cross-national comparisons of the …

Model-informed COVID-19 vaccine prioritization strategies by age and serostatus

KM Bubar, K Reinholt, SM Kissler, M Lipsitch, S Cobey… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Limited initial supply of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
vaccine raises the question of how to prioritize available doses. We used a mathematical …

The World Mortality Dataset: Tracking excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

A Karlinsky, D Kobak - MedRxiv, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Comparing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic between countries or across time is
difficult because the reported numbers of cases and deaths can be strongly affected by …

Relaxing restrictions at the pace of vaccination increases freedom and guards against further COVID-19 waves

S Bauer, S Contreras, J Dehning… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Mass vaccination offers a promising exit strategy for the COVID-19 pandemic. However, as
vaccination progresses, demands to lift restrictions increase, despite most of the population …

[HTML][HTML] Infection fatality ratio and case fatality ratio of COVID-19

G Luo, X Zhang, H Zheng, D He - International Journal of Infectious …, 2021 - Elsevier
The infection fatality ratio (IFR) is the risk of death per infection and is one of the most
important epidemiological parameters. Enormous efforts have been undertaken to estimate …

Resource allocation in the Covid-19 health crisis: are Covid-19 preventive measures consistent with the Rule of Rescue?

JW März, S Holm, M Schlander - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2021 - Springer
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a health crisis of a scale unprecedented in post-war
Europe. In response, a large amount of healthcare resources have been redirected to Covid …

Designing efficient contact tracing through Risk-Based Quarantining

A Perrault, M Charpignon, J Gruber, M Tambe… - 2020 - nber.org
Contact tracing for COVID-19 is especially challenging because transmission often occurs in
the absence of symptoms and because a purported 20% of cases cause 80% of infections …

COVID-19 cluster size and transmission rates in schools from crowdsourced case reports

P Tupper, S Pai, C Colijn - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The role of schools in the spread of SARS-CoV-2 is controversial, with some claiming they
are an important driver of the pandemic and others arguing that transmission in schools is …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating primary and booster vaccination prioritization strategies for COVID-19 by age and high-contact employment status using data from contact surveys

E Roubenoff, D Feehan, AS Mahmud - Epidemics, 2023 - Elsevier
The debate around vaccine prioritization for COVID-19 has revolved around balancing the
benefits from:(1) the direct protection conferred by the vaccine amongst those at highest risk …

[HTML][HTML] Relaxing restrictions at the pace of vaccination increases freedom and guards against further COVID-19 waves in Europe

S Bauer, S Contreras, J Dehning, M Linden, E Iftekhar… - 2021 - europepmc.org
Mass vaccination offers a promising exit strategy for the COVID-19 pandemic. However, as
vaccination progresses, demands to lift restrictions increase, despite most of the population …