Real-time modelling of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in England 2020-2023: a challenging data integration

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Hauptverfasser: Birrell, Paul J, Blake, Joshua, Kandiah, Joel, Alexopoulos, Angelos, van Leeuwen, Edwin, Pouwels, Koen, Ghosh, Sanmitra, Starr, Colin, Walker, Ann Sarah, House, Thomas A, Gay, Nigel, Finnie, Thomas, Gent, Nick, Charlett, André, De Angelis, Daniela
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author Birrell, Paul J
Blake, Joshua
Kandiah, Joel
Alexopoulos, Angelos
van Leeuwen, Edwin
Pouwels, Koen
Ghosh, Sanmitra
Starr, Colin
Walker, Ann Sarah
House, Thomas A
Gay, Nigel
Finnie, Thomas
Gent, Nick
Charlett, André
De Angelis, Daniela
author_facet Birrell, Paul J
Blake, Joshua
Kandiah, Joel
Alexopoulos, Angelos
van Leeuwen, Edwin
Pouwels, Koen
Ghosh, Sanmitra
Starr, Colin
Walker, Ann Sarah
House, Thomas A
Gay, Nigel
Finnie, Thomas
Gent, Nick
Charlett, André
De Angelis, Daniela
contents A central pillar of the UK's response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was the provision of up-to-the moment nowcasts and short term projections to monitor current trends in transmission and associated healthcare burden. Here we present a detailed deconstruction of one of the 'real-time' models that was key contributor to this response, focussing on the model adaptations required over three pandemic years characterised by the imposition of lockdowns, mass vaccination campaigns and the emergence of new pandemic strains. The Bayesian model integrates an array of surveillance and other data sources including a novel approach to incorporating prevalence estimates from an unprecedented large-scale household survey. We present a full range of estimates of the epidemic history and the changing severity of the infection, quantify the impact of the vaccination programme and deconstruct contributing factors to the reproduction number. We further investigate the sensitivity of model-derived insights to the availability and timeliness of prevalence data, identifying its importance to the production of robust estimates.
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spellingShingle Real-time modelling of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in England 2020-2023: a challenging data integration
Birrell, Paul J
Blake, Joshua
Kandiah, Joel
Alexopoulos, Angelos
van Leeuwen, Edwin
Pouwels, Koen
Ghosh, Sanmitra
Starr, Colin
Walker, Ann Sarah
House, Thomas A
Gay, Nigel
Finnie, Thomas
Gent, Nick
Charlett, André
De Angelis, Daniela
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A central pillar of the UK's response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was the provision of up-to-the moment nowcasts and short term projections to monitor current trends in transmission and associated healthcare burden. Here we present a detailed deconstruction of one of the 'real-time' models that was key contributor to this response, focussing on the model adaptations required over three pandemic years characterised by the imposition of lockdowns, mass vaccination campaigns and the emergence of new pandemic strains. The Bayesian model integrates an array of surveillance and other data sources including a novel approach to incorporating prevalence estimates from an unprecedented large-scale household survey. We present a full range of estimates of the epidemic history and the changing severity of the infection, quantify the impact of the vaccination programme and deconstruct contributing factors to the reproduction number. We further investigate the sensitivity of model-derived insights to the availability and timeliness of prevalence data, identifying its importance to the production of robust estimates.
title Real-time modelling of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in England 2020-2023: a challenging data integration
topic Applications
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04178