Evaluating the COVID-19 vaccination program in Japan, 2021 using the counterfactual reproduction number

T Kayano, Y Ko, K Otani, T Kobayashi, M Suzuki… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Japan implemented its nationwide vaccination program against COVID-19 in 2021,
immunizing more than one million people (approximately 1%) a day. However, the direct …

[HTML][HTML] Transmission dynamics and effectiveness of control measures during COVID-19 surge, Taiwan, april–august 2021

AR Akhmetzhanov, HY Cheng, NM Linton… - Emerging infectious …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
An unprecedented surge of COVID-19 cases in Taiwan in May 2021 led the government to
implement strict nationwide control measures beginning May 15. During the surge, the …

Forecasting COVID-19 Epidemic Trends by Combining a Neural Network with Rt Estimation

P Cinaglia, M Cannataro - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
On 31 December 2019, a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown etiology was reported in
Wuhan (China). The cases were declared to be Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) by …

Go To Travel campaign and the geographic spread of COVID-19 in Japan

A Anzai, S Jung, H Nishiura - BMC infectious diseases, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background In 2020, the Japanese government implemented first of two Go To
Travel campaigns to promote the tourism sector as well as eating and drinking …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiology of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Japan during the first and second waves

R Kinoshita, S Jung, T Kobayashi… - Mathematical …, 2022 - aimspress.com
Following the emergence and worldwide spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19),
each country has attempted to control the disease in different ways. The first patient with …

Real-time estimation of the effective reproduction number of COVID-19 from behavioral data

E Bokányi, Z Vizi, J Koltai, G Röst, M Karsai - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Monitoring the effective reproduction number R t of a rapidly unfolding pandemic in real-time
is key to successful mitigation and prevention strategies. However, existing methods based …

Understanding Human-COVID-19 Dynamics using Geospatial Big Data: A Systematic Literature Review

B Lin, L Zou, M Yang, B Zhou, D Mandal… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed human life. To mitigate the pandemic's impacts,
different regions implemented various policies to contain COVID-19 and residents showed …

Association of Ambient Temperature and Absolute Humidity with the Effective Reproduction Number of COVID-19 in Japan

K Wagatsuma - Pathogens, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study aimed to quantify the exposure-lag-response relationship between short-term
changes in ambient temperature and absolute humidity and the transmission dynamics of …

Response to COVID-19 during the Tokyo Olympic Games: Did we properly assess the risk?

S Jung, K Hayashi, T Kayano, H Nishiura - Epidemics, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases was expected to
increase during the Tokyo Olympic Games because of the increased physical contact within …

Assessing public health and social measures against COVID-19 in Japan From March to June 2021

K Hayashi, T Kayano, A Anzai, M Fujimoto… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Public health and social measures (PHSM) against COVID-19 in Japan involve
requesting the public to voluntarily reduce social contact; these measures are not legally …