Estimating the trend of COVID-19 in Norway by combining multiple surveillance indicators.
Estimating the trend of new infections was crucial for monitoring risk and for evaluating strategies and interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic revealed the utility of new data sources and highlighted challenges in interpreting surveillance indicators when changes in disease severi...
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| author | Gunnar Rø Trude Marie Lyngstad Elina Seppälä Siri Nærland Skodvin Lill Trogstad Richard Aubrey White Arve Paulsen Trine Hessevik Paulsen Trine Skogset Ofitserova Petter Langlete Elisabeth Henie Madslien Karin Nygård Birgitte Freisleben de Blasio |
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| description | Estimating the trend of new infections was crucial for monitoring risk and for evaluating strategies and interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic revealed the utility of new data sources and highlighted challenges in interpreting surveillance indicators when changes in disease severity, testing practices or reporting occur. Our study aims to estimate the underlying trend in new COVID-19 infections by combining estimates of growth rates from all available surveillance indicators in Norway. We estimated growth rates by using a negative binomial regression method and aligned the growth rates in time to hospital admissions by maximising correlations. Using a meta-analysis framework, we calculated overall growth rates and reproduction numbers including assessments of the heterogeneity between indicators. We find that the estimated growth rates reached a maximum of 25% per day in March 2020, but afterwards they were between -10% and 10% per day. The correlations between the growth rates estimated from different indicators were between 0.5 and 1.0. Growth rates from indicators based on wastewater, panel and cohort data can give up to 14 days earlier signals of trends compared to hospital admissions, while indicators based on positive lab tests can give signals up to 7 days earlier. Combining estimates of growth rates from multiple surveillance indicators provides a useful description of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway. This is a powerful technique for a holistic understanding of the trends of new COVID-19 infections and the technique can easily be adapted to new data sources and situations. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a0dd37c24389487ebb4b78f7d3c3aa282025-02-07T05:30:48ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032025-01-01201e031710510.1371/journal.pone.0317105Estimating the trend of COVID-19 in Norway by combining multiple surveillance indicators.Gunnar RøTrude Marie LyngstadElina SeppäläSiri Nærland SkodvinLill TrogstadRichard Aubrey WhiteArve PaulsenTrine Hessevik PaulsenTrine Skogset OfitserovaPetter LangleteElisabeth Henie MadslienKarin NygårdBirgitte Freisleben de BlasioEstimating the trend of new infections was crucial for monitoring risk and for evaluating strategies and interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic revealed the utility of new data sources and highlighted challenges in interpreting surveillance indicators when changes in disease severity, testing practices or reporting occur. Our study aims to estimate the underlying trend in new COVID-19 infections by combining estimates of growth rates from all available surveillance indicators in Norway. We estimated growth rates by using a negative binomial regression method and aligned the growth rates in time to hospital admissions by maximising correlations. Using a meta-analysis framework, we calculated overall growth rates and reproduction numbers including assessments of the heterogeneity between indicators. We find that the estimated growth rates reached a maximum of 25% per day in March 2020, but afterwards they were between -10% and 10% per day. The correlations between the growth rates estimated from different indicators were between 0.5 and 1.0. Growth rates from indicators based on wastewater, panel and cohort data can give up to 14 days earlier signals of trends compared to hospital admissions, while indicators based on positive lab tests can give signals up to 7 days earlier. Combining estimates of growth rates from multiple surveillance indicators provides a useful description of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway. This is a powerful technique for a holistic understanding of the trends of new COVID-19 infections and the technique can easily be adapted to new data sources and situations.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317105 |
| spellingShingle | Gunnar Rø Trude Marie Lyngstad Elina Seppälä Siri Nærland Skodvin Lill Trogstad Richard Aubrey White Arve Paulsen Trine Hessevik Paulsen Trine Skogset Ofitserova Petter Langlete Elisabeth Henie Madslien Karin Nygård Birgitte Freisleben de Blasio Estimating the trend of COVID-19 in Norway by combining multiple surveillance indicators. PLoS ONE |
| title | Estimating the trend of COVID-19 in Norway by combining multiple surveillance indicators. |
| title_full | Estimating the trend of COVID-19 in Norway by combining multiple surveillance indicators. |
| title_fullStr | Estimating the trend of COVID-19 in Norway by combining multiple surveillance indicators. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Estimating the trend of COVID-19 in Norway by combining multiple surveillance indicators. |
| title_short | Estimating the trend of COVID-19 in Norway by combining multiple surveillance indicators. |
| title_sort | estimating the trend of covid 19 in norway by combining multiple surveillance indicators |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317105 |
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