Zachary McCarthy, Safia Athar, Mahnaz Alavinejad, Christopher Chow, Iain Moyles, Kyeongah Nah, Jude D Kong, Nishant Agrawal, Ahmed Jaber, Laura Keane, Sam Liu, Myles Nahirniak, Danielle St Jean, Razvan Romanescu, Jessica Stockdale, Bruce T Seet, Laurent Coudeville, Edward Thommes, Anne-Frieda Taurel, Jason Lee, Thomas Shin, Julien Arino, Jane Heffernan, Ayman Chit, Jianhong Wu
BACKGROUND: Seasonal influenza poses a significant public health and economic burden, associated with the outcome of infection and resulting complications. The true burden of the disease is difficult to capture due to the wide range of presentation, from asymptomatic cases to non-respiratory complications such as cardiovascular events, and its seasonal variability. An understanding of the magnitude of the true annual incidence of influenza is important to support prevention and control policy development and to evaluate the impact of preventative measures such as vaccination...
July 10, 2020: Theoretical Biology & Medical Modelling