Frederik Verelst

TL;DR: It is concluded that individual-level models are increasingly used and useful to model behaviour changes, despite recent advancements, that most models are purely theoretical and lack representative data and a validation process.

TL;DR: Modelled by the intensity approach with a composite measure for healthcare capacity, the countries experiencing the highest pressure on 25 March 2020 - relative to Italy on 11 March - were Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and France.

TL;DR: A decade of IBM publications is reviewed to obtain insights in their advantages, pitfalls and rationale for use and to make recommendations facilitating knowledge transfer within and across disciplines, which suggests IBMs are suited to combine heterogeneous within- and between-host interactions.

TL;DR: A Bayesian D-efficient discrete choice experiment in February-March 2017 to study vaccination behavior in 1919 Belgian respondents found that 'acceptors' were less sensitive to changes in the vaccine-preventable burden of disease for their child's vaccination choices (but not for themselves).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors collected contact mixing behavior in various phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in over 20 European countries and provided these timely, repeated observations using an online platform: SOCRATES-CoMix.