A fast-spreading SARS-CoV-2 variant identified in the United Kingdom in December 2020 has raised international alarm. We estimate that, in 16 out of 1...Read more

Background: Various public health and social measures (PHSMs) have been implemented worldwide to fight against COVID-19 pandemic since early 2020. T...Read more

Background The generation time distribution, reflecting the time between successive infections in transmission chains, is one of the fundamental epide...Read more

Background: Various non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were implemented globally to mitigate COVID-19, which could have modulated the transmissio...Read more

The generation time distribution, reflecting the time between successive infections in transmission chains, is a key epidemiological parameter for des...Read more

Objectives: Variants of concern (VOCs) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), such as the Delta variant and the Omicron vari...Read more

Background: Influenza is a severe public health problem that seriously affects the human health system and even life, attracting more and more researc...Read more

To model estimated deaths averted by COVID-19 vaccines, we used state-of-the-art mathematical modeling, likelihood-based inference, and reported COVID...Read more

Many locations around the world have used real-time estimates of the time-varying effective reproductive number (Rt) of COVID-19 to provide evidence o...Read more

The omicron variant (B.1.1.529) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was the predominant variant in South Korea from late J...Read more

Background: After relaxing social distancing measures, South Korea experienced a resurgent second epidemic wave of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)...Read more

A fast-spreading severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 variant identified in the United Kingdom in December 2020 has raised international al...Read more

Studies of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have reported varying estimates of epidemiological parameters such as serial intervals and reproductio...Read more

Objective: This study investigates the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission potential in North Dakota, South Dako...Read more