Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Real-time estimation of disease activity in emerging outbreaks using internet search information.

Author(s): Aiken EL, McGough SF, Majumder MS, Wachtel G, Nguyen AT, Viboud C, Santillana MJournal: PLoS Comput BiolPMID: 32804932 August 2020

Understanding the behavior of emerging disease outbreaks in, or ahead of, real-time could help healthcare officials better design interventions to…

An Early Warning Approach to Monitor COVID-19 Activity with Multiple Digital Traces in Near Real-Time.

Author(s): Kogan NE, Clemente L, Liautaud P, Kaashoek J, Link NB, Nguyen AT, Lu FS, Huybers P, Resch B, Havas C, Petutschnig A, Davis J, Chinazzi M, Mustafa B, Hanage WP, Vespignani A, Santillana MJournal: ArXivPMID: 32676518 July 2020

Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been crucial in curbing COVID-19 in the United States (US). Consequently, relaxing NPIs through a phased…

Estimating the Early Outbreak Cumulative Incidence of COVID-19 in the United States: Three Complementary Approaches.

Author(s): Lu FS, Nguyen AT, Link NB, Lipsitch M, Santillana MJournal: medRxivPMID: 32587997 June 2020

Effectively designing and evaluating public health responses to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic requires accurate estimation of the weekly incidence of…