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arXiv 2004.01105q-bio.PE
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推断COVID-19传播中的变化点揭示了干预措施的有效性

Inferring change points in the COVID-19 spreading reveals the effectiveness of interventions

Jonas Dehning, Johannes Zierenberg, F. Paul Spitzner, Michael Wibral, Joao Pinheiro Neto, Michael Wilczek, Viola Priesemann

摘要:

随着COVID-19在全球迅速蔓延,短期建模预测为遏制和缓解策略的决策提供了时间关键的信息。短期预测的一个主要挑战是评估关键的流行病学参数,以及当第一次干预措施显示效果时这些参数如何变化。通过将一个已建立的流行病学模型与贝叶斯推断相结合,分析了新感染有效增长率的时间依赖性。聚焦于COVID-19在德国的传播,我们发现有效增长率的变化点与公开宣布的干预措施的时间密切相关。因此,我们可以量化干预措施的效果,并将相应的变化点纳入对未来情景和病例数的预测中。我们的代码是免费提供的,可以随时适应任何国家或地区。

英文摘要:

As COVID-19 is rapidly spreading across the globe, short-term modeling forecasts provide time-critical information for decisions on containment and mitigation strategies. A main challenge for short-term forecasts is the assessment of key epidemiological parameters and how they change when first interventions show an effect. By combining an established epidemiological model with Bayesian inference, we analyze the time dependence of the effective growth rate of new infections. Focusing on the COVID-19 spread in Germany, we detect change points in the effective growth rate that correlate well with the times of publicly announced interventions. Thereby, we can quantify the effect of interventions, and we can incorporate the corresponding change points into forecasts of future scenarios and case numbers. Our code is freely available and can be readily adapted to any country or region.

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