How effective is the flu shot this year? New report shows promising results

While the new findings are encouraging, "vaccines won’t do any good if people don’t get them," one expert said.
SciELO

Assessing the Time Evolution of COVID-19 Effective Reproduction Number in Brazil

The spread of the SARS-CoV-2 which led to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought many challenges to policymakers around the globe. To prevent explosive growth in the number of infections that may result in ...
eLife

Inferring variant-specific effective reproduction numbers from combined case and sequencing data

Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, United States Howard ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Pellis, L., Ball, F. and Trapman, P. (2012) Reproduction Numbers for Epidemic Models with Households and Other Social Structures. I. Definition and Calculation of R

ABSTRACT: Background: The basic reproduction number ( R 0 ) is a key metric in epidemiology, representing the expected number of secondary infections from a single case in a fully susceptible ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Boonpatcharanon, S., Heffernan, J.M. and Jankowski, H. (2022) Estimating the Basic Reproduction Number at the Beginning of an Outbreak. PLOS ONE, 17, e0269306.

ABSTRACT: Background: The basic reproduction number ( R 0 ) is a key metric in epidemiology, representing the expected number of secondary infections from a single case in a fully susceptible ...
BMJ

Epidemiological impact of three major respiratory coronavirus epidemics on influenza transmission: a multicountry analysis using surveillance data and mathematical modelling

Background With the acceleration of globalisation and the increasing frequency of international exchanges, the risk of cross-border transmission of emerging respiratory infectious diseases (ERIDs) has ...
PNAS

Spatially explicit effective reproduction numbers from incidence and mobility data

The effective reproduction number quantifies the average number of secondary infections caused by an infected individual (within the population of their own resident community, or anywhere else) when ...