Understanding the effectiveness of government interventions against the resurgence of COVID-19 in Europe

M Sharma, S Mindermann, C Rogers-Smith… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
European governments use non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to control resurging
waves of COVID-19. However, they only have outdated estimates for how effective individual …

Changes in social contacts in England during the COVID-19 pandemic between March 2020 and March 2021 as measured by the CoMix survey: A repeated cross …

A Gimma, JD Munday, KLM Wong, P Coletti… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the United
Kingdom government imposed public health policies in England to reduce social contacts in …

[HTML][HTML] School reopening without robust COVID-19 mitigation risks accelerating the pandemic

D Gurdasani, NA Alwan, T Greenhalgh… - Lancet (London …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
On Feb 22, 2021, the UK Government announced that schools in England would fully
reopen on March 8, 2021. While returning to school as soon as possible is imperative for the …

New directions for participatory modelling in health: Redistributing expertise in relation to localised matters of concern

S Adams, T Rhodes, K Lancaster - Global Public Health, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Participatory modelling seeks to foster stakeholder engagement to better attune models to
their decision-making and policy contexts. Such approaches are increasingly advocated for …

Measures implemented in the school setting to contain the COVID‐19 pandemic

Cochrane Public Health Group… - Cochrane Database …, 1996 - cochranelibrary.com
Plain language summary Were measures taken by schools to contain the COVID‐19
pandemic effective? Key messages• Overall, results suggested that a range of school …

Evaluating the use of social contact data to produce age-specific short-term forecasts of SARS-CoV-2 incidence in England

JD Munday, S Abbott, S Meakin… - PLoS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
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 mitigation and control …

Quantifying pupil-to-pupil SARS-CoV-2 transmission and the impact of lateral flow testing in English secondary schools

T Leng, EM Hill, A Holmes, E Southall… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A range of measures have been implemented to control within-school SARS-CoV-2
transmission in England, including the self-isolation of close contacts and twice weekly mass …

Dynamics of non-household contacts during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 in the Netherlands

JA Backer, L Bogaardt, P Beutels, P Coletti… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic was in 2020 and 2021 for a large part mitigated by reducing
contacts in the general population. To monitor how these contacts changed over the course …

Model-based evaluation of alternative reactive class closure strategies against COVID-19

QH Liu, J Zhang, C Peng, M Litvinova, S Huang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
There are contrasting results concerning the effect of reactive school closure on SARS-CoV-
2 transmission. To shed light on this controversy, we developed a data-driven computational …

Trends in SARS-CoV-2 infection prevalence during England's roadmap out of lockdown, January to July 2021

O Eales, H Wang, D Haw, KEC Ainslie… - PLoS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Following rapidly rising COVID-19 case numbers, England entered a national
lockdown on 6 January 2021, with staged relaxations of restrictions from 8 March 2021 …