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ArticleBMC public health2024

Wording the trajectory of the three-year COVID-19 epidemic in a general population - Belgium.

Jean Vanderpas, Michèle Dramaix, Yves Coppieters

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Article in BMC public health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Jean VanderpasCentre de recherche Epidémiologie, biostatistiques, recherche clinique, School of Public Health, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Route de Lennik 808, 596, 1070, Brussels, CP, Belgium. jean.vanderpas@ulb.be.ORCID 0000-0003-0623-5612
Michèle DramaixCentre de recherche Epidémiologie, biostatistiques, recherche clinique, School of Public Health, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Route de Lennik 808, 596, 1070, Brussels, CP, Belgium.
Yves CoppietersCentre de recherche Epidémiologie, biostatistiques, recherche clinique, School of Public Health, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Route de Lennik 808, 596, 1070, Brussels, CP, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-8899-9549

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The trajectory of COVID-19 epidemic waves in the general population of Belgium was analysed by defining quantitative criteria for epidemic waves from March 2020 to early 2023. Peaks and starting/ending times characterised nine waves numerated I to IX based on the daily reported incidence number (symbol INCID) and three "endemic" interval periods between the first four waves. The SIR compartmental model was applied to the first epidemic wave by fitting the daily prevalence pool (symbol I) calculated as the sum of the daily incidence rate and estimated number of subjects still infectious from the previous days. The basic reproductive number R

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COVID-19EpidemicsBasic Reproduction NumberBelgiumHumansSARS-CoV-2Infectious disease dynamicSIR model

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PMID38424526
PMCPMC10903008

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