Background Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, mathematical models have been
widely used to inform public health recommendations regarding COVID-19 control in …

Social distancing measures (SDMs) are community-level interventions that aim to reduce
person-to-person contacts in the community. SDMs were a major part of the responses first …

Background COVID-19 outbreaks still occur in English care homes despite the interventions
in place. Methods We developed a stochastic compartmental model to simulate the spread …

The most vulnerable residential settings during the COVID-19 pandemic were older adult's
nursing homes, which experienced high rates of incidence and death from this cause. This …

Background Efforts to protect residents in nursing homes involve non-pharmaceutical
interventions, testing, and vaccine. We sought to quantify the effect of testing and vaccine …

Public health emergencies create challenges for the accommodation of visitors to hospitals
and other care facilities. To mitigate the spread of COVID-19 early in the pandemic, health …

Background To limit spread of COVID-19, many US states adopted policies affecting access
to older adults, including those in hospice. This study aimed to assess differences in hospice …

The growing complexity of systems and problems that stakeholders from the private and
public sectors have sought advice on has led systems modellers to increasingly use …

Objectives Since the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments have
imposed policies to reduce contacts between people who are presumed to be particularly …

Background Residential aged-care facilities (RACFs, also called long-term care facilities,
aged care homes, or nursing homes) have elevated risks of respiratory infection outbreaks …