Infectious disease surveillance needs for the United States: lessons from Covid-19.

Author(s): Lipsitch M, Bassett MT, Brownstein JS, Elliott P, Eyre D, Grabowski MK, Hay JA, Johansson MA, Kissler SM, Larremore DB, Layden JE, Lessler J, Lynfield R, MacCannell D, Madoff LC, Metcalf CJE, Meyers LA, Ofori SK, Quinn C, Bento AI, Reich NG, Riley S, Rosenfeld R, Samore MH, Sampath R, Slayton RB, Swerdlow DL, Truelove S, Varma JK, Grad YHJournal: Front Public HealthPMID: 39076420 July 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to upgrade systems for infectious disease surveillance and forecasting and modeling of the…

Viral kinetics of sequential SARS-CoV-2 infections.

Author(s): Kissler SM, Hay JA, Fauver JR, Mack C, Tai CG, Anderson DJ, Ho DD, Grubaugh ND, Grad YHJournal: Nat CommunPMID: 37798265 October 2023
The impact of a prior SARS-CoV-2 infection on the progression of subsequent infections has been unclear. Using a convenience sample…

Optimal environmental testing frequency for outbreak surveillance

Author(s): Olejarz JW, Oliveira Roster KI, Kissler SM, Lipsitch M, Grad YHJournal: medRxiv September 2023
Public health surveillance for pathogens presents an optimization problem: we require enough sampling to identify intervention-triggering shifts in pathogen epidemiology,…

Quantifying the impact of immune history and variant on SARS-CoV-2 viral kinetics and infection rebound: a retrospective cohort study

Author(s): Hay JA, Kissler SM, Fauver JR, Mack C, Tai CG, Samant RM, Connolly S, Anderson DJ, Khullar G, MacKay M, Patel M, Kelly S, Manhertz A, Eiter I, Salgado D, Baker T, Howard B, Dudley JT, Mason CE, Nair M, Huang Y, DiFiori J, Ho DD, Grubaugh N, Grad YHJournal: ElifePMID: 36383192 November 2022
The combined impact of immunity and SARS-CoV-2 variants on viral kinetics during infections has been unclear. We characterized 1,280 infections…