Weitz Group

Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet

Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet.      

Publications: Infectious Disease Dynamics

Title Year Journal
Forward-looking serial intervals correctly link epidemic growth to reproduction numbers 2021 PNAS
Estimating the cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection and the infection fatality ratio in light of waning antibodies 2021 Epidemiology
Reacting to outbreaks at neighboring localities 2021 Journal of Theoretical Biology
Disease-dependent interaction policies to support health and economic outcomes during the COVID-19 epidemic 2021 iScience
Surveillance-to-Diagnostic Testing Program for Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections on a Large, Urban Campus – Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall 2020 2021 medRxiv
Roles of generation-interval distributions in shaping relative epidemic strength, speed, and control of new SARS-CoV-2 variants 2021 medRxiv
Heterogeneity in susceptibility dictates the order of epidemic models 2021 Journal of Theoretical Biology
A framework for monitoring population immunity to SARS-CoV-2 2021 Annals of Epidemiology
Modeling shield immunity to reduce COVID-19 epidemic spread 2020 Nature Medicine
The time scale of asymptomatic transmission affects estimates of epidemic potential in the COVID-19 outbreak 2020 Epidemics
Real-time, interactive website for US-county-level COVID-19 event risk assessment 2020 Nature Human Behavior
Reconciling early-outbreak estimates of the basic reproductive number and its uncertainty: framework and applications to the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak 2020 Journal of the Royal Society Interface
Awareness-driven behavior changes can shift the shape of epidemics away from peaks and toward plateaus, shoulders, and oscillations 2020 PNAS
Modeling serological testing to inform relaxation of social distancing for COVID-19 control 2020 medRxiv
Spread of COVID-19 through Georgia, USA. Near-term projections and impacts of social distancing via a metapopulation model 2020 medRxiv
Systematic biases in disease forecasting – The role of behavior change 2019 Epidemics
A practical generation-interval-based approach to inferring the strength of epidemics from their speed 2019 Epidemics
Networked SIS Epidemics With Awareness 2017 IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
Disease dynamics in a stochastic network game: a little empathy goes a long way in averting outbreaks 2017 Scientific Reports
Stochasticity and the limits to confidence when estimating R0 of Ebola and other emerging infectious diseases 2016 Journal of Theoretical Biology
Modeling post-death transmission of Ebola: challenges for inference and opportunities for control 2015 Scientific Reports
Dynamics of shigellosis epidemics: estimating individual-level transmission and reporting rates from national epidemiologic data sets 2013 American Journal of Epidemiology
Phage in the time of cholera 2006 The Lancet: Infectious Diseases

The Weitz Group

Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet

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School of Biological Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

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