H. Christian Tsoungui Obama

TL;DR: These measures provide an economically meaningful way to protect vulnerable risk groups characterized by an elevated risk of severe infections in closed facilities, in which contact-reducing measures are difficult to implement due to imminent unavoidable close human-to-human contacts.

TL;DR: Simulations indicate that a potential second lockdown can substantially decrease the epidemic peak, the number of multi-infections and deaths, and underlines another facet questioning disease management strategies aiming for herd immunity in the COVID-19 pandemic.

TL;DR: A formal statistical framework is introduced and a concise definition of MOI and its distribution on the host-population level is suggested, showing how it relates to alternative definitions such as the number of distinct haplotypes within an infection or the maximum number of alleles detectable across a set of genetic markers.

TL;DR: A statistical framework to obtain maximum-likelihood estimates (MLE) of haplotype frequencies and prevalence alongside MOI from malaria SNP data, i.e., multiple biallelic marker loci is introduced and can be applied to any infectious disease with similar transmission behavior.

TL;DR: A model designed to predict the effect of vaccination campaigns on the spread of viral variants is introduced and is capable of providing useful predictions for the COVID-19 pandemic, and hence provides a relevant tool for epidemic decision-making.