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Simulating the impact of perception bias on social contact surveys for infectious disease modelling
Thomas J. Harris, Prescott C. Alexander, Anh B. D. Pham +3
Social contact patterns are a key input to many infectious disease models. Contact surveys, where participants are asked to provide information on their recent close and casual con…
A model-based assessment of social isolation practices for COVID-19 outbreak response in residential care facilities
Cameron Zachreson, Ruarai Tobin, Camelia Walker +4
Residential aged-care facilities (RACFs, also called long-term care facilities, aged care homes, or nursing homes) have elevated risks of respiratory infection outbreaks and associ…
Correlation of viral loads in disease transmission chains could bias early estimates of the reproduction number
Thomas Harris, Nicholas Geard, Cameron Zachreson
Early estimates of the transmission properties of a newly emerged pathogen are critical to an effective public health response, and are often based on limited outbreak data. Here,…
The effects of local homogeneity assumptions in metapopulation models of infectious disease
Cameron Zachreson, Sheryl Chang, Nathan Harding +1
Computational models of infectious disease can be broadly categorized into two types: individual-based (Agent-based), or compartmental models. While compartmental models can be str…
COVID-19 in low-tolerance border quarantine systems: impact of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2
Cameron Zachreson, Freya M. Shearer, David J. Price +4
In controlling transmission of COVID-19, the effectiveness of border quarantine strategies is a key concern for jurisdictions in which the local prevalence of disease and immunity…
Simulating transmission scenarios of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Australia
Sheryl L. Chang, Oliver M. Cliff, Cameron Zachreson +1
An outbreak of the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant of SARS-CoV-2 that began around mid-June 2021 in Sydney, Australia, quickly developed into a nation-wide epidemic. The ongoing epidemic…
How will mass-vaccination change COVID-19 lockdown requirements in Australia?
Cameron Zachreson, Sheryl L. Chang, Oliver M. Cliff +1
Background: To prevent future outbreaks of COVID-19, Australia is pursuing a mass-vaccination approach in which a targeted group of the population comprising healthcare workers, ag…
Modelling transmission and control of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
Sheryl L. Chang, Nathan Harding, Cameron Zachreson +2
There is a continuing debate on relative benefits of various mitigation and suppression strategies aimed to control the spread of COVID-19. Here we report the results of agent-base…