Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Generating simple classification rules to predict local surges in COVID-19 hospitalizations.

Author(s): Yaesoubi R, You S, Xi Q, Menzies NA, Tuite A, Grad YH, Salomon JAJournal: Health Care Manag SciPMID: 36692583 January 2023

Low rates of vaccination, emergence of novel variants of SARS-CoV-2, and increasing transmission relating to seasonal changes and relaxation of…

Evaluating spatially adaptive guidelines for the treatment of gonorrhea to reduce the incidence of gonococcal infection and increase the effective lifespan of antibiotics.

Author(s): Yaesoubi R, Cohen T, Hsu K, Gift TL, St Cyr SB, Salomon JA, Grad YHJournal: PLoS Comput BiolPMID: 35139073 February 2022

In the absence of point-of-care gonorrhea diagnostics that report antibiotic susceptibility, gonorrhea treatment is empiric and determined by standardized guidelines.…

Simple decision rules to predict local surges in COVID-19 hospitalizations during the winter and spring of 2022.

Author(s): Yaesoubi R, You S, Xi Q, Menzies NA, Tuite A, Grad YH, Salomon JAJournal: medRxivPMID: 34931196 December 2021

Low rates of vaccination, emergence of novel variants of SARS-CoV-2, and increasing transmission relating to seasonal changes leave many U.S.…

Adaptive guidelines for the treatment of gonorrhea to increase the effective life span of antibiotics among men who have sex with men in the United States: A mathematical modeling study.

Author(s): Yaesoubi R, Cohen T, Hsu K, Gift TL, Chesson H, Salomon JA, Grad YHJournal: PLoS MedPMID: 32243443 April 2020

The rise of gonococcal antimicrobial resistance highlights the need for strategies that extend the clinically useful life span of antibiotics.…