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Feasibility of controlling COVID-19 outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts by Hellewell, Joel, Abbott, Sam, Gimma, Amy, Bosse, Nikos I, Jarvis, Christopher I, Russell, Timothy W, Munday, James D, Kucharski, Adam J, Edmunds, W John, Sun, Fiona, Flasche, Stefan, Quilty, Billy J, Davies, Nicholas, Liu, Yang, Clifford, Samuel, Klepac, Petra, Jit, Mark, Diamond, Charlie, Gibbs, Hamish, van Zandvoort, Kevin, Funk, Sebastian, Eggo, Rosalind M

“…Isolation of cases and contact tracing is used to control outbreaks of infectious diseases, and has been used for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Whether…”
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Quantifying the impact of hospital catchment area definitions on hospital admissions forecasts: COVID-19 in England, September 2020-April 2021 by Meakin, Sophie, Funk, Sebastian

“…Defining healthcare facility catchment areas is a key step in predicting future healthcare demand in epidemic settings. Forecasts of hospitalisations can be…”
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Generation time of the alpha and delta SARS-CoV-2 variants: an epidemiological analysis by Hart, William S, Miller, Elizabeth, Andrews, Nick J, Waight, Pauline, Maini, Philip K, Funk, Sebastian, Thompson, Robin N

“…In May, 2021, the delta (B.1.617.2) SARS-CoV-2 variant became dominant in the UK, superseded by the omicron (B.1.1.529) variant in December, 2021. The delta…”
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Estimated transmissibility and impact of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England by Davies, Nicholas G, Abbott, Sam, Barnard, Rosanna C, Jarvis, Christopher I, Kucharski, Adam J, Munday, James D, Pearson, Carl A B, Russell, Timothy W, Tully, Damien C, Washburne, Alex D, Wenseleers, Tom, Gimma, Amy, Waites, William, Wong, Kerry L M, van Zandvoort, Kevin, Silverman, Justin D, Diaz-Ordaz, Karla, Keogh, Ruth, Eggo, Rosalind M, Funk, Sebastian, Jit, Mark, Atkins, Katherine E, Edmunds, W John

“…A severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant, VOC 202012/01 (lineage B.1.1.7), emerged in southeast England in September 2020 and is…”
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spread of awareness and its impact on epidemic outbreaks by Funk, Sebastian, Gilad, Erez, Watkins, Chris, Jansen, Vincent A.A

“…When a disease breaks out in a human population, changes in behavior in response to the outbreak can alter the progression of the infectious agent. In…”
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Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, Rt by Gostic, Katelyn M, McGough, Lauren, Baskerville, Edward B, Abbott, Sam, Joshi, Keya, Tedijanto, Christine, Kahn, Rebecca, Niehus, Rene, Hay, James A, De Salazar, Pablo M, Hellewell, Joel, Meakin, Sophie, Munday, James D, Bosse, Nikos I, Sherrat, Katharine, Thompson, Robin N, White, Laura F, Huisman, Jana S, Scire, Jérémie, Bonhoeffer, Sebastian, Stadler, Tanja, Wallinga, Jacco, Funk, Sebastian, Lipsitch, Marc, Cobey, Sarah

“…Estimation of the effective reproductive number Rt is important for detecting changes in disease transmission over time. During the Coronavirus Disease 2019…”
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What settings have been linked to SARS-CoV-2 transmission clusters? by Leclerc, Quentin J., Fuller, Naomi M., Knight, Lisa E., Funk, Sebastian, Knight, Gwenan M.

“…Background : Concern about the health impact of novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has resulted in widespread enforced reductions in people’s movement (“lockdowns”)…”
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Spatial and temporal dynamics of superspreading events in the 2014–2015 West Africa Ebola epidemic by Lau, Max S. Y., Dalziel, Benjamin Douglas, Funk, Sebastian, McClelland, Amanda, Tiffany, Amanda, Riley, Steven, Metcalf, C. Jessica E., Grenfell, Bryan T.

“…The unprecedented scale of the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa (2014–2015) has prompted an explosion of efforts to understand the transmission dynamics of the…”
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Scoring epidemiological forecasts on transformed scales by Bosse, Nikos I, Abbott, Sam, Cori, Anne, van Leeuwen, Edwin, Bracher, Johannes, Funk, Sebastian

“…Forecast evaluation is essential for the development of predictive epidemic models and can inform their use for public health decision-making. Common scores to…”
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Hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infection in the UK's first COVID-19 pandemic wave by Read, Jonathan M, Green, Chris A, Harrison, Ewen M, Docherty, Annemarie B, Funk, Sebastian, Harrison, Janet, Girvan, Michelle, Hardwick, Hayley E, Turtle, Lance, Dunning, Jake, Nguyen-Van-Tam, Jonathan S, Openshaw, Peter JM, Baillie, J Kenneth, Semple, Malcolm G

“…Limited access to testing early in the outbreak, false negative results for nasopharyngeal swabs in early stages of disease, and presentation with…”
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Transmission Dynamics of Zika Virus in Island Populations: A Modelling Analysis of the 2013-14 French Polynesia Outbreak by Kucharski, Adam J, Funk, Sebastian, Eggo, Rosalind M, Mallet, Henri-Pierre, Edmunds, W John, Nilles, Eric J

“…Between October 2013 and April 2014, more than 30,000 cases of Zika virus (ZIKV) disease were estimated to have attended healthcare facilities in French…”
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Outbreak analytics: a developing data science for informing the response to emerging pathogens by Polonsky, Jonathan A, Baidjoe, Amrish, Kamvar, Zhian N, Cori, Anne, Durski, Kara, Edmunds, W John, Eggo, Rosalind M, Funk, Sebastian, Kaiser, Laurent, Keating, Patrick, de Waroux, Olivier le Polain, Marks, Michael, Moraga, Paula, Morgan, Oliver, Nouvellet, Pierre, Ratnayake, Ruwan, Roberts, Chrissy H, Whitworth, Jimmy, Jombart, Thibaut

“…Despite continued efforts to improve health systems worldwide, emerging pathogen epidemics remain a major public health concern. Effective response to such…”
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Estimating the overdispersion in COVID-19 transmission using outbreak sizes outside China by Endo, Akira, Abbott, Sam, Kucharski, Adam J., Funk, Sebastian

“…Background: A novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has now spread to a number of countries worldwide. While sustained transmission chains of…”
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Fine-scale family structure shapes influenza transmission risk in households: Insights from primary schools in Matsumoto city, 2014/15 by Endo, Akira, Uchida, Mitsuo, Kucharski, Adam J, Funk, Sebastian

“…Households are important settings for the transmission of seasonal influenza. Previous studies found that the per-person risk of within-household transmission…”
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Evaluating the use of social contact data to produce age-specific short-term forecasts of SARS-CoV-2 incidence in England by Munday, James D, Abbott, Sam, Meakin, Sophie, Funk, Sebastian

“…Mathematical and statistical models can be used to make predictions of how epidemics may progress in the near future and form a central part of outbreak…”
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Estimating the overdispersion in COVID-19 transmission using outbreak sizes outside China by Endo, Akira, Abbott, Sam, Kucharski, Adam J., Funk, Sebastian

“…Background: A novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has now spread to a number of countries worldwide. While sustained transmission chains of…”
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The impact of local vaccine coverage and recent incidence on measles transmission in France between 2009 and 2018 by Robert, Alexis, Kucharski, Adam J, Funk, Sebastian

“…Subnational heterogeneity in immunity to measles can create pockets of susceptibility and result in long-lasting outbreaks despite high levels of national…”
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Comparing human and model-based forecasts of COVID-19 in Germany and Poland by Bosse, Nikos I, Abbott, Sam, Bracher, Johannes, Hain, Habakuk, Quilty, Billy J, Jit, Mark, van Leeuwen, Edwin, Cori, Anne, Funk, Sebastian

“…Forecasts based on epidemiological modelling have played an important role in shaping public policy throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This modelling combines…”
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Modeling infectious disease dynamics in the complex landscape of global health by Heesterbeek, Hans, Anderson, Roy M., Andreasen, Viggo, Bansal, Shweta, De Angelis, Daniela, Dye, Chris, Eames, Ken T. D., Edmunds, W. John, Frost, Simon D. W., Funk, Sebastian, Hollingsworth, T. Deirdre, House, Thomas, Isham, Valerie, Klepac, Petra, Lessler, Justin, Lloyd-Smith, James O., Metcalf, C. Jessica E., Mollison, Denis, Pellis, Lorenzo, Pulliam, Juliet R. C., Roberts, Mick G., Viboud, Cecile

“…Despite some notable successes in the control of infectious diseases, transmissible pathogens still pose an enormous threat to human and animal health. The…”
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Effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 cases, deaths, and demand for hospital services in the UK: a modelling study by Davies, Nicholas G, Kucharski, Adam J, Eggo, Rosalind M, Gimma, Amy, Edmunds, W John, Jombart, Thibaut, O'Reilly, Kathleen, Endo, Akira, Hellewell, Joel, Nightingale, Emily S, Quilty, Billy J, Jarvis, Christopher I, Russell, Timothy W, Klepac, Petra, Bosse, Nikos I, Funk, Sebastian, Abbott, Sam, Medley, Graham F, Gibbs, Hamish, Pearson, Carl A B, Flasche, Stefan, Jit, Mark, Clifford, Samuel, Prem, Kiesha, Diamond, Charlie, Emery, Jon, Deol, Arminder K, Procter, Simon R, van Zandvoort, Kevin, Sun, Yueqian Fiona, Munday, James D, Rosello, Alicia, Auzenbergs, Megan, Knight, Gwen, Houben, Rein M G J, Liu, Yang

“…Non-pharmaceutical interventions have been implemented to reduce transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the UK…”
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