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).
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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 |
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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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