Posted on 01/23/2021 1:36:59 PM PST by NachOsten
Abstract
Mass antigen testing in Slovakia conducted in October and November 2020 is a source of important data. We perform its statistical analysis and study epidemic geographical patterns. We observe exponentially distributed test positivity and exponential trends in its geographical distribution, and its approximately 10 km spatial characteristic correlation length.
A small correlation between positivity in two consecutive testing rounds appeared on the municipalities level but it significantly increased on the counties level.
Recent 7-day PCR tests incidence per capita served as a good proxy for antigen test positivity. Positivity of non-residents was higher than of residents when mass testing was offered only in municipalities with the highest positivity in previous rounds. Reduction in positivity in repeated testing increased with the positivity in the earlier round. Our results contribute to better understanding of pandemic data, and aid an assessment of mass testing efficiency, and planning of mitigation measures.
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Now the hammer!
Funding
Slovak government and Slovak Minister of Health.
Stefan Flasche is supported by a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society (Grant number 208812/Z/17/Z). Sebastian Funk, Sam Abbott and Katharine Sherratt are supported by the Wellcome Trust (210758/Z/18/Z). Kevin van Zandvoort is supported by Elrha’s Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) Programme, which aims to improve health outcomes by strengthening the evidence base for public health interventions in humanitarian crises. The R2HC programme is funded by the UK Government (DFID), the Wellcome Trust, and the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
The following funding sources are acknowledged as providing funding for the working group authors.
BBSRC LIDP (BB/M009513/1: DS). This research was partly funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (INV-001754: MQ; INV-003174: KP, MJ, YL; NTD Modelling Consortium OPP1184344: CABP, GFM; OPP1180644: SRP; OPP1183986: ESN). BMGF (OPP1157270: KA). DFID/Wellcome Trust (Epidemic Preparedness Coronavirus research programme 221303/Z/20/Z: CABP). EDCTP2 (RIA2020EF-2983-CSIGN: HPG). ERC Starting Grant (#757699: MQ).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme project EpiPose (101003688: KP, MJ, PK, RCB, WJE, YL).
This research was partly funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project ‘RECAP’ managed through RCUK and ESRC (ES/P010873/1: AG, CIJ, TJ). HDR UK (MR/S003975/1: RME). MRC (MR/N013638/1: NRW). Nakajima Foundation (AE).
This research was partly funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) using UK aid from the UK Government to support global health research.
The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the UK Department of Health and Social Care (16/136/46: BJQ; 16/137/109: BJQ, FYS, MJ, YL;
Health Protection Research Unit for Immunisation NIHR200929: NGD; Health Protection Research Unit for Modelling Methodology HPRU-2012-10096: TJ; NIHR200908: RME; NIHR200929: FGS, MJ; PR-OD-1017-20002: AR, WJE). Royal Society
(Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship: RL; RP\EA\180004: PK). UK DHSC/UK Aid/NIHR (PR-OD-1017-20001: HPG). UK MRC (MC_PC_19065 Covid 19: Understanding the dynamics and drivers of the COVID-19 epidemic using real-time outbreak analytics: AG, NGD, RME, SC, TJ, WJE, YL; MR/P014658/1: GMK). Authors of this research receive funding from UK Public Health Rapid Support Team funded by the United Kingdom Department of Health and Social Care (TJ). Wellcome Trust (206250/Z/17/Z: AJK, TWR; 206471/Z/17/Z: OJB;
208812/Z/17/Z: SC; 210758/Z/18/Z: JDM, JH, NIB, SA, SRM). No funding (AMF, AS, CJVA, DCT, JW, KEA, YWDC).
One nation Down..... NEXT!!!!
i guess this will go down in history as another BS
The effectiveness of population-wide, rapid antigen test based screening in reducing SARS-CoV-2 infection prevalence in Slovakia
Why lie?
What do you mean?
I mean you lied about the title.
You made up your own title. That's a lie.
Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment that this money will attract. It promises more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market.
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Health in Humanitarian Crises Published: June 8, 2017 Executive Summary Large-scale humanitarian crises are ongoing in Syria, Afghanistan, Central African Republic, DR Congo, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen among others.
Should I go on?
I know, I am such a liar
Yes.
Look at the title of this thread.
Look at the title at the link.
Are they the same?
You made up your own title, you are a liar.
You have re-titled someone else's work and ought to be whipped in the street.
No, The tag line would not let me post it under a full headline. Why? I do not know.
Once I cut out part of it, it was OK.
Next time I run into such a problem, I know who to turn to, mister "humble"
More lies.
Just slink off, you've been busted and you know it.
Cut your losses and don't make it worse.
A small nation is being literally enslaved and impoverished with these globalists scums ( you must have heard of Lidice, on the other hand...), and you are talking, what about? I have no clue. Oh, A title of an article! Behold!
Title! is what matters.
Do not fear, it will come to your shores sooner then you think.
Well, you might even land your old job back. If you gonna be a good boy, that is.... So sad...
You made up a fake title.
This is totally evident.
There is no cringing away from this, you did it.
Why did you do it?
Are you a serial liar?
“i guess this will go down in history as another BS”
I’m sorry but you’re not making sense. It’s nor clear what you are trying to communicate.
Humbug is OTR, and called him a liar for “making up the title”.
He’s way overreacting and is unintelligible.
I think he’s having a nervous breakdown.
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