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A Tale of Three Recent Pandemics
Miranda, Mafalda N.S.; Pingarilho, Marta; Pimentel, Victor; Torneri, Andrea; Seabra, Sofia G.; Libin, Pieter J.K.; Abecasis, Ana B.Funding Information: This study was financed by FCT through the following projects: GHTM-UID/04413/2020, INTEGRIV (PTDC/SAU-INF/31990/2017) and the scholarship PD/BD/135714/2018 and MARVEL (PTDC/SAU-PUB/4018/2021). This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 101046016. This work also received funding from the European Res...
A prospect on the use of antiviral drugs to control local outbreaks of COVID-19
Torneri, Andrea; Libin, Pieter; Vanderlocht, Joris; Vandamme, Anne Mieke; Neyts, Johan; Hens, NielBackground: Current outbreaks of COVID-19 are threatening the health care systems of several countries around the world. Control measures, based on isolation, contact tracing, and quarantine, can decrease and delay the burden of the ongoing epidemic. With respect to the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic, recent modeling work shows that these interventions may be inadequate to control local outbreaks, even when perfect ...