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The National COVID-19 Epi Model (NCEM): Estimating cases, admissions and deaths in South Africa

2022-09-09 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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BackgroundIn March 2020 the South African COVID-19 Modelling Consortium was formed to support government planning for COVID-19 cases and related healthcare. Models were developed jointly by local disease modelling groups to estimate cases, resource needs and deaths due to COVID-19. MethodsThe National COVID-19 Epi Model (NCEM) while initially developed as a deterministic compartmental model of SARS-Cov-2 transmission in the nine provinces of South Africa, was adapted several times over the cour...

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