Alex R. Cook

TL;DR: Regular monitoring of vaccine attitudes – coupled with monitoring of local immunization rates – at the national and sub-national levels can identify populations with declining confidence and acceptance.

TL;DR: Estimates of mixing patterns for societies for which contact data such as POLYMOD are not yet available are provided, finding contact patterns are highly assortative with age across all countries considered, but pronounced regional differences in the age-specific contacts at home were noticeable.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors adapted an influenza epidemic simulation model to estimate the likelihood of human-to-human transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in a simulated Singaporean population.

TL;DR: This Health Policy paper uses an adapted framework to examine the approaches taken by nine high-income countries and regions that have started to ease COVID-19 restrictions: five in the Asia Pacific region (ie, Hong Kong [Special Administrative Region], Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea) and four in Europe (IE, Germany, Norway, Spain, and the UK).

TL;DR: SARS-CoV-2 is transmissible in community settings, and local clusters of COVID-19 are expected in countries with high travel volume from China before the lockdown of Wuhan and institution of travel restrictions.