Author(s): Kate M Bubar, Stephen M Kissler, Marc Lipsitch, Sarah Cobey, Yonatan Grad, Daniel B Larremore|Journal: medRxiv| September 2020
When a vaccine for COVID-19 becomes available, limited initial supply will raise the question of how to prioritize the available…
Author(s): Tigist Menkir, Horace Cox, Canelle Poirier, Melanie Saul, Sharon Jones-Weekes, Collette Clementson, Pablo Martinez de Salazar, Mauricio Santillana, Caroline Buckee|Journal: medRxiv| September 2020
Time lags in reporting to national surveillance systems represent a major barrier for the control of infectious diseases, preventing timely…
Author(s): Larremore DB, Wilder B, Lester E, Shehata S, Burke JM, Hay JA, Tambe M, Mina MJ, Parker R|Journal: medRxiv| September 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a public health crisis. Because SARS-CoV-2 can spread from individuals with pre-symptomatic, symptomatic, and asymptomatic…
Author(s): Ayesha S Mahmud, Anir Chowdhury, Ramiz Uddin, Kawsar Hossain Sojib, Shayan Chowdhury, Md. Tanvir Quader, Sangita Paul, Md. Sheikh Saidy, Kenth Engo-Monsen, Caroline O Buckee|Journal: medRxiv| September 2020
Limitations in laboratory diagnostic capacity and reporting delays have hampered efforts to mitigate and control the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019…
Author(s): Melinda M. Ashcroft, Eric P. F. Chow, Darren Y. J. Lee, Vesna De Petra, Maree Soumilas, Marlene Tschaepe, Lei Zhang, Danielle J. Ingle, George Taiaroa, Allison L Hicks, Yonatan H. Grad, Benjamin P. Howden, Christopher K. Fairley, Deborah A Williamson|Journal: medRxiv| August 2020
Mathematical modelling and genomic analyses are powerful methods for investigating the transmission dynamics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, however, often make the…
Author(s): Fred S Lu, Andre T Nguyen, Nicholas B Link, Jessica T Davis, Matteo Chinazzi, Xinyue Xiong, Alessandro Vespignani, Marc Lipsitch, Mauricio Santillana|Journal: medRxiv| August 2020
Effectively designing and evaluating public health responses to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic requires accurate estimation of the prevalence of COVID-19…
Author(s): Mathew V Kiang, Mauricio Santillana, Jarvis T Chen, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Nancy Krieger, Kenth Engo-Monsen, Nattwut Ekapirat, Darin Areechokchai, Richard Maude, Caroline O Buckee|Journal: medRxiv| July 2020
Over 390 million people worldwide are infected with dengue fever each year. In the absence of an effective vaccine for…
Author(s): Niall J Lennon, Roby P Bhattacharyya, Michael J Mina, Heidi L Rehm, Deborah T Hung, Sandra Smole, Ann Woolley, Eric S Lander, Stacey B Gabriel|Journal: medRxiv| July 2020
Transmission of COVID-19 from people without symptoms poses considerable challenges to public health containment measures. The distribution of viral loads…
