Dynamics of a national Omicron SARS-CoV-2 epidemic during January 2022 in England

Journal article

Infectious diseases pose substantial and continuous threats to global health. From the Black Death to the influenza pandemics, and more recently COVID-19, the impacts of infectious disease outbreaks have long highlighted the need for a quantitative understanding of epidemic dynamics. Epidemiological modelling is about providing such an understanding. As data are always imperfect, models are also imperfect, yet models remain useful tools that create manageable abstractions of reality to quanti...

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Authors: Elliott, P; Eales, O; Bodinier, B; Tang, D; Wang, H

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Nature Research
• Journal: Nature Communications
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 4500-4500
• Article number: 4500
• Publication date: 2022-08-03
• DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32121-6
• EISSN: 2041-1723
• ISSN: 2041-1723
• Language: English
• Keywords: Surgery; Nose; Demography; Internal medicine; Physics; Disease; Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); Infectious disease (medical specialty); Transmission rate; Transmission (telecommunications); Virology; Veterinary medicine; Pediatrics; Throat; 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); Incidence (geometry); Telecommunications; Medicine