{"id":2573,"date":"2020-12-04T15:47:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T23:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2020-12-07T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T23:50:12","slug":"detecting-covid-19-infection-hotspots-in-england-using-large-scale-self-reported-data-from-a-mobile-application-a-prospective-observational-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/04\/detecting-covid-19-infection-hotspots-in-england-using-large-scale-self-reported-data-from-a-mobile-application-a-prospective-observational-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Detecting COVID-19 Infection Hotspots in England Using Large-Scale Self-Reported Data from a Mobile Application: A Prospective, Observational Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A study modeling longitudinal, self-reported data from users of the COVID Symptom Study app in England between March and September 2020 estimated that on Sept 28 there was a daily incidence of 15,841 cases of COVID-19 nationally, a prevalence of 0.53%, and an effective reproduction number, R(t), of 1.17. Users were invited to submit swabs for SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing when they had symptoms, which the authors used to calculate incidence. Prevalence was estimated using symptoms and swab test results. Study estimates identified 15 (75%) of the 20 geographic regions with highest incidence according to government test data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Varsavsky et al. (Dec 3, 2020). Detecting COVID-19 Infection Hotspots in England Using Large-Scale Self-Reported Data from a Mobile Application: A Prospective, Observational Study. The Lancet Public Health. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2468-2667(20)30269-3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2468-2667(20)30269-3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study modeling longitudinal, self-reported data from users of the COVID Symptom Study app in England between March and September 2020 estimated that on Sept 28 there was a daily incidence of 15,841 cases of COVID-19 nationally, a prevalence of 0.53%, and an effective reproduction number, R(t), of 1.17. Users were invited to submit swabs&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/04\/detecting-covid-19-infection-hotspots-in-england-using-large-scale-self-reported-data-from-a-mobile-application-a-prospective-observational-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-non-pharm-interventions","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}