3 papers
q-bio.PE2022
Evaluating undercounts in epidemics: response to Maruotti et al. 2022
Michael Li, Jonathan Dushoff, David J. D. Earn +1
Maruotti et al. 2022 used a mark-recapture approach to estimate bounds on the true number of monkeypox infections in various countries. These approaches are fundamentally flawed; i…
q-bio.PE2021
Testing and Isolation Efficacy: Insights from a Simple Epidemic Model
Ali Gharouni, F. M. Abdelmalek, David J. D. Earn +2
Testing individuals for pathogens can affect the spread of epidemics. Understanding how individual-level processes of sampling and reporting test results can affect community- or p…
q-bio.PE2019
Invariant predictions of epidemic patterns from radically different forms of seasonal forcing
Irena Papst, David J. D. Earn
Seasonal variation in environmental variables, and in rates of contact among individuals, are fundamental drivers of infectious disease dynamics. Unlike most periodically-forced ph…