Coronavirus Disease 2019 on the Heels of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1. Country-Specific Models
2.2. Model Calibration
2.3. Vaccination
2.4. Simulations
2.5. Geographic Data
3. Results
3.1. Model Calibration
3.2. Geographic Distribution
3.3. Simulations on the Effects of Vaccination
3.4. Combined Effects of Vaccination and Relaxed NPIs under Baseline, Realistic, and Optimistic Scenarios
4. Discussion
4.1. Vaccination
4.2. Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs)
4.3. Modeling Limitations
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Percent of Total Population | |||
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Guinea | Liberia | Sierra Leone | |
Baseline Vaccination | 3.5 | 2.2 | 1.7 |
Realistic Vaccination | 8.6 | 1.7 | 5.3 |
Optimistic Vaccination | 32 | 24 | 25 |
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Dembek, Z.F.; Schwartz-Watjen, K.T.; Swiatecka, A.L.; Broadway, K.M.; Hadeed, S.J.; Mothershead, J.L.; Chekol, T.; Owens, A.N.; Wu, A. Coronavirus Disease 2019 on the Heels of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa. Pathogens 2021, 10, 1266. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10101266
Dembek ZF, Schwartz-Watjen KT, Swiatecka AL, Broadway KM, Hadeed SJ, Mothershead JL, Chekol T, Owens AN, Wu A. Coronavirus Disease 2019 on the Heels of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa. Pathogens. 2021; 10(10):1266. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10101266
Chicago/Turabian StyleDembek, Zygmunt F., Kierstyn T. Schwartz-Watjen, Anna L. Swiatecka, Katherine M. Broadway, Steven J. Hadeed, Jerry L. Mothershead, Tesema Chekol, Akeisha N. Owens, and Aiguo Wu. 2021. "Coronavirus Disease 2019 on the Heels of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa" Pathogens 10, no. 10: 1266. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10101266
APA StyleDembek, Z. F., Schwartz-Watjen, K. T., Swiatecka, A. L., Broadway, K. M., Hadeed, S. J., Mothershead, J. L., Chekol, T., Owens, A. N., & Wu, A. (2021). Coronavirus Disease 2019 on the Heels of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa. Pathogens, 10(10), 1266. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10101266