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Best practices for estimating and reporting epidemiological delay distributions of infectious diseases using public health surveillance and healthcare data

paper-summary

delay-distributions

epidemiological-parameters

Epidemiological delay distributions tend to come up during nearly every infectious disease outbreak because they inform public health policy and clinical practice. We…

Estimating epidemiological delay distributions for infectious diseases

paper-summary

delay-distributions

evaluation

package

methods

epidemiological-parameters

This blog post is based on a preprint we recently posted with a large authorship group. Here we summarise our main takeaways from the project. Sam has also written a blog post…

Sang Woo Park, Sam Abbott

Improving modelling for epidemic responses: reflections from members of the UK infectious disease modelling community on their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic

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epidemic-prepardnesss

evaluation

This blog post reproduces an executive summary written by the authors of “Improving modelling for epidemic responses: reflections from members of the UK infectious disease…

Lessons learned from collaborative nowcasting of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Germany

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nowcasting

evaluation

This blog post is based on a preprint we recently posted with a large authorship group. I will summarize my main takeaways from the project. The figures used here are all by …

Johannes Bracher

epinowcast 0.2.1

epinowcast

releases

packages

In this release, we focused on improving the internal code structure, documentation, and development infrastructure of the package to make it easier to maintain and extend…