R₀ of COVID-19 and its impact on vaccination coverage: compared with previous outbreaks

References

• Delamater PL, Street EJ, Leslie TF, Yang YT, Jacobsen KH. Complexity of the basic reproduction number (R0). Emerg Infect Dis. 2019;25(1):1–4. doi:10.3201/eid2501.171901.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Anderson RM, Robert M. Infectious diseases of humans: dynamics and control. Oxford Science Publications; 1991 May. p. 36, 118.
   Google Scholar
• Viceconte G, Petrosillo N. COVID-19 R0: magic number or conundrum? Infect Dis Rep. 2020;12(1):8516. doi:10.4081/idr.2020.8516.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Merriam-Webster I. Merriam-webster online dictionary. Springfield (MA); 2008. Author Retrieved July. Published online.
   Google Scholar
• Plotkin S. History of vaccination. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014;111(34):12283–87. doi:10.1073/pnas.1400472111.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Orensteina WA, Ahmedb R. Simply put: vaccination saves lives. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017;114(16):4031–33. doi:10.1073/pnas.1704507114.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pittet LF, Abbas M, Siegrist C-A, Pittet D. Missed vaccinations and critical care admission: all you may wish to know or rediscover—a narrative review. Int Care Med. 2019. doi:10.1007/s00134-019-05862-0.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thompson MG, Pierse N, Sue Huang Q, Prasad N, Duque J, Claire Newbern E, … McArthur C. Influenza vaccine effectiveness in preventing influenza-associated intensive care admissions and attenuating severe disease among adults in New Zealand 2012–2015. Vaccine. 2018. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.07.028.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Plans-Rubió P. Evaluation of the establishment of herd immunity in the population by means of serological surveys and vaccination coverage. Human Vacc Immunother. 2012 Feb;8(2):184–88. doi:10.4161/hv.18444.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Donnelly CA, Ghani AC, Leung GM, Hedley AJ, Fraser C, Riley S, … Anderson RM. Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong. Lancet. 2003;361(9371):1761–66. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(03)13410-1.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Petrosillo N, Viceconte G, Ergonul O, Ippolito G, Petersen E. COVID-19, SARS and MERS: are they closely related? Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020. doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2020.03.026.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Merler S, Ajelli M. Deciphering the relative weights of demographic transition and vaccination in the decrease of measles incidence in Italy. Proc Biol Sci. 2014;281:20132676.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Liu W, Tang S, Xiao Y. Model selection and evaluation based on emerging infectious disease data sets including A/H1N1 and Ebola. Comput Math Methods Med. 2015;2015:207105.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chowell G, Fuentes R, Olea A, Aguilera X, Nesse H, Hyman JM. The basic reproduction number R0 and effectiveness of reactive interventions during dengue epidemics: the 2002 dengue outbreak in Easter Island, Chile. Math Biosci Eng. 2013;10(5–6):1455–74. doi:10.3934/mbe.2013.10.1455.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nsubuga RN, White RG, Mayanja BN, Shafer LA. Estimation of the HIV basic reproduction number in rural south west Uganda: 1991-2008. PLoS One. 2014;9(1):e83778. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083778. Published 2014 Jan 3
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wang Y, Wang Y, Chen Y, Qin Q. Unique epidemiological and clinical features of the emerging 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) implicate special control measures. J Med Virol. 2020. doi:10.1002/jmv.25748.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Liu Y, Gayle AA, Wilder-Smith A, Rocklöv J. The reproductive number of COVID-19 is higher compared to SARS coronavirus. J Travel Med. 2020;27:2. doi:10.1093/jtm/taaa02.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• VILLELA D, BASTOS L, DE Carvalho L, CRUZ O, GOMES M, DUROVNI B, … CODEÇO C. Zika in Rio de Janeiro: assessment of basic reproduction number and comparison with dengue outbreaks. Epidemiol Infect. 2017;145(8):1649–57. doi:10.1017/S0950268817000358.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hooker G, Ellner SP, Roditi Lde V, Earn DJ. Parameterizing state-space models for infectious disease dynamics by generalized profiling: measles in Ontario. J R Soc Interface. 2011;8:961–74.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Torres-Roman JS, Kobiak IC, Valcarcel B, Diaz-Velez C, La Vecchia C. The reproductive number R0 of COVID-19 in Peru: an opportunity for effective changes. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020:101689. doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101689.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zhuang Z, Zhao S, Lin Q, Cao P, Lou Y, Yang L, … Xiao L. Preliminary estimating the reproduction number of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Republic of Korea and Italy by 5 March 2020. Int J Infect Dis. 2020. doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2020.04.044.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar