The COVID‐19 pandemic:Key considerations for the epidemic and its control

• Published in: APMIS
• Main Authors: Ørskov, Søren, Nielsen, Bjarke Frost, Føns, Sofie, Sneppen, Kim, Simonsen, Lone
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: COVID-19; Coronavirus; mortality; pandemic; superspreading; Achilles Heel; Iceland
• Online Access: https://forskning.ruc.dk/da/publications/ff9cdaa5-0416-4729-a428-40d4f22548bd; https://doi.org/10.1111/apm.13141; https://hdl.handle.net/1800/ff9cdaa5-0416-4729-a428-40d4f22548bd; https://rucforsk.ruc.dk/ws/files/78146034/The_COVID_19_pandemic.pdf

The response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been characterized by draconian measures and far too many important unknowns, such as the true mortality risk, the role of children as transmitters and the development and duration of immunity in the population. More than a year into the pandemic muc...