How to detect and reduce potential sources of biases in studies of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. Author(s): Accorsi EK, Qiu X, Rumpler E, Kennedy-Shaffer L, Kahn R, Joshi K, Goldstein E, Stensrud MJ, Niehus R, Cevik M, Lipsitch M|Journal: Eur J Epidemiol|PMID: 33634345| February 2021 In response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, public health scientists have produced a large and rapidly expanding body of…
Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, Rt. Author(s): Gostic KM, McGough L, Baskerville EB, Abbott S, Joshi K, Tedijanto C, Kahn R, Niehus R, Hay JA, De Salazar PM, Hellewell J, Meakin S, Munday JD, Bosse NI, Sherrat K, Thompson RN, White LF, Huisman JS, Scire J, Bonhoeffer S, Stadler T, Wallinga J, Funk S, Lipsitch M, Cobey S|Journal: PLoS Comput Biol|PMID: 33301457| December 2020 Estimation of the effective reproductive number Rt is important for detecting changes in disease transmission over time. During the Coronavirus…
