Understanding the Transmission Dynamics, Control Strategies, and Epidemiological Characteristics of the COVID-19 Pandemic
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 March 2024) | Viewed by 21480
Special Issue Editors
Interests: COVID-19 epidemiology; infectious diseases modelling; COVID-19 during pregnancy; SARS-CoV-2 vertical transmission; systematic review and meta-analysis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: COVID-19 pandemic; parameter estimation; infectious diseases; mathematical epidemiology; statistical inference and stochastic process
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In December 2019, public health officials in China alerted the World Health Organization about the emergence of pneumonia of unknown etiology. The disease, named COVID-19, spread rapidly globally and became a pandemic. COVID-19, which SARS-CoV-2 causes, has become the most dangerous global pandemic that has deployed a severe problem to humanity in the past decades. Many etiological features of SARS-CoV-2 are yet to be uncovered, ranging from epidemiological and clinical characteristics. Such as the impact of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical intervention measures on the COVID-19 dynamics, the effects of SARS-CoV-2 on maternal and neonatal outcomes and breastfeeding, etc. Thus, global effort is required from researchers and public health to suppress the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This special issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on research articles addressing key epidemiological problems related to COVID-19 to help contain the pandemic. These include (but are not limited to) articles under the general scope of infectious diseases, epidemiological modelling, virological characteristics, preventive and control, and public health. This special issue offers the opportunity to publish original full research articles, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and short communications, which are expected to add appropriate information to the current knowledge.
Dr. Salihu S. Musa
Dr. Daihai He
Dr. Shi Zhao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- COVID-19
- epidemiology
- disease prevention and control
- SAR-CoV-2 vertical transmission
- breastfeeding and COVID-19
- SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy
- vaccination
- parameter estimation
- infectious disease modelling
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