Author(s): Olejarz JW, Oliveira Roster KI, Kissler SM, Lipsitch M, Grad YH|Journal: medRxiv| September 2023
Public health surveillance for pathogens presents an optimization problem: we require enough sampling to identify intervention-triggering shifts in pathogen epidemiology,…
Author(s): Suliman S, Nieto-Caballero VE, Asgari S, Lopez K, Iwany SK, Luo Y, Nathan A, Fernandez-Salinas D, Chiñas M, Huang CC, Zhang Z, Leon SR, Calderón RI, Lecca L, Murray M, Rhijn IV, Raychaudhuri S, Moody DB, Gutierrez-Arcelus M|Journal: medRxiv| July 2023
A quarter of humanity is estimated to be latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) with a 5-10% risk of developing…
Author(s): Chin T, Foxman EF, Watkins TA, Lipsitch M|Journal: medRxiv| June 2023
When respiratory viruses co-circulate in a population, individuals may be infected with multiple pathogens and experience possible virus-virus interactions, where…
Author(s): Yu QQ, Oleson SW, Duvallet C, Grad YH|Journal: medRxiv| May 2023
Wastewater-based epidemiology is a promising public health tool that can yield a more representative view of the population than case…
Author(s): Roster KIO, Kissler SM, Omoregie E, Wang JC, Amin H, Lonardo SD, Hughes S, Grad YH|Journal: medRxiv| May 2023
Rapid identification of new SARS-CoV-2 variants is a critical component of the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However,…
Author(s): Boyer CB, Lipsitch M|Journal: medRxiv| May 2023
In place of trials, investigators have used observational data to estimate the efficacy or optimal timing window for postexposure vaccines,…
Author(s): Savi MK, Yadav A, Zhang W, Vembar N, Schroeder A, Balsari S, Buckee CO, Vadhan S, Kishore N|Journal: medRxiv| March 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of mobile phone data for monitoring human mobility patterns has become increasingly common, both…
