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COVID-19 surveillance in England: lessons for the next pandemic

Colbourn, Tim; (2023) COVID-19 surveillance in England: lessons for the next pandemic. The Lancet Public Health 10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00218-9. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Knowing the size of an epidemic and whether it is increasing or decreasing is core to any response to it, be it by individuals, organisations, or governments. Julii Brainard and colleagues1 have compared 12 COVID-19 surveillance systems that were used in England from the start of the second wave of the pandemic (Sept 1, 2020) to just before Omicron emerged (Nov 30, 2021). Compared with the most accurate measures from the Office for National Statistics (those most representative of the whole population), which are least timely (10–24-day lag), they found that “laboratory-confirmed case counts and emergency department attendances were the most timely and also independent indicators of concurrent epidemic status”.1

Type: Article
Title: COVID-19 surveillance in England: lessons for the next pandemic
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00218-9
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00218-9
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10179658
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