Monday 31 May 2021

Pre-2020 Pandemic Planning and Pandemic Mitigation and Control science and a Compilation of Papers Evaluating the Effectiveness of Mandatory Lockdown Measures

 

 Update 27 June 2021: Added four papers, now 45 total. 42:3 against mandatory restrictions.

 Here are lists of documents and papers covering Pre-Pandemic Planning by major national health authorities, some pre-2020 papers on response to and control of epidemics and a compilation of papers I have come across evaluating the effective of mandatory lockdown measures:

 

Pre-2020 Pandemic Planning

1             Non-pharmaceutical public health measures for mitigating the risk and impact of epidemic and pandemic influenza

World Health Organization

https://www.who.int/influenza/publications/public_health_measures/publication/en/

2             ECDC TECHNICAL REPORT Guide to public health measures to reduce the impact of  influenza pandemics in Europe: ‘The ECDC Menu’

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/media/en/publications/Publications/0906_TER_Public_Health_Measures_for_Influenza_Pandemics.pdf

 3             Pandemic Influenza Preparedness for Ireland:

Advice of the Pandemic Influenza Expert Group

https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/influenza/pandemicinfluenza/guidance/pandemicinfluenzapreparednessforireland/

4             UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy 2011

UK Department of Health

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/213717/dh_131040.pdf

5             Interim Pre-pandemic Planning Guidance:Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation in the United States

US CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/pdf/community_mitigation-sm.pdf

              

Pre-2020 Science            

1             Public Health and Medical Responses to the 1957-58 Influenza Pandemic

D. A. Henderson, Brooke Courtney, Thomas V. Inglesby, Eric Toner, and Jennifer B. Nuzzo

http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/resources/publications/2009/2009-08-05-public_health_medical_responses_1957.html

2             Targeted Social Distancing Designs for Pandemic Influenza

Robert J. Glass*Comments to Author , Laura M. Glass†, Walter E. Beyeler*, and H. Jason Min* Author affiliations: *Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; †Albuquerque Public High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/11/06-0255_article

3             Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

THOMAS V. INGLESBY, JENNIFER B. NUZZO, TARA O’TOOLE, and D. A. HENDERSON

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.552.1109&rep=rep1&type=pdf

4             Health is more than influenza

World Health Organization

https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/7/11-089086/en/

5             "Too Little of a Good Thing

A Paradox of Moderate Infection Control"

Cohen, Teda; Lipsitch, Marc

https://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2008/07000/Too_Little_of_a_Good_Thing__A_Paradox_of_Moderate.14.aspx

 

Evaluations of Covid mandatory measures. 

1             Covid-19 Mortality: A Matter of Vulnerability Among Nations Facing Limited Margins of Adaptation

Quentin De Larochelambert, Andy Marc, Juliana Antero, Eric Le Bourg and Jean-François Toussaint

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.604339/full

2             Assessing mandatory stay‐at‐home and business closure effects on the spread of COVID‐19

Eran Bendavid, Christopher Oh, Jay Bhattacharya, John P. A. Ioannidis

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13484

3             Stay-at-home policy is a case of exception fallacy: an internet-based ecological study

Savaris,Pumi, Dalzochio, Kunst

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84092-1

4             COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink

Ari Joffe

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.625778/full

5             School closures and SARS-CoV-2. Evidence from Sweden’s partial school closure

Jonas Vlachos, Edvin Hertegård,e Helena Svaleryd

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.13.20211359v3

6             Did Lockdown Work? An Economist’s Cross-Country Comparison

Christian Bjornskov

https://academic.oup.com/cesifo/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cesifo/ifab003/6199605

7             A country level analysis measuring the impact of government actions, country preparedness and socioeconomic factors on COVID-19 mortality and related health outcomes

Rabail Chaudhry,     George Dranitsaris,     Talha Mubashir,    Justyna Bartoszko,    Sheila Riazi

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30208-X/fulltext

8             Was R < 1 before the English lockdowns? On modelling mechanistic detail, causality and inference about Covid-19

S. N. Wood, E. C. Wit

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.03.21251112v2.full

9             Covid Lockdown Cost/Benefits:A Critical Assessment of the Literature

Douglas W. Allen

http://www.sfu.ca/~allen/LockdownReport.pdf?

10           SARS-CoV-2 Transmission among Marine Recruits during Quarantine

Andrew G. Letizia, M.D., Irene Ramos, Ph.D., Ajay Obla, Ph.D., Carl Goforth, Ph.D., Dawn L. Weir, Ph.D., Yongchao Ge, Ph.D., Marcas M. Bamman, Ph.D., Jayeeta Dutta, M.B.A., Ethan Ellis, B.S., Luis Estrella, Ph.D., Mary-Catherine George, Ph.D., Ana S. Gonzalez-Reiche, Ph.D., William D. Graham, Ph.D., Adriana van de Guchte, M.S., Ramiro Gutierrez, M.D., Franca Jones, Ph.D., Aspasia Kalomoiri, Ph.D., Rhonda Lizewski, M.D., Stephen Lizewski, Ph.D., Jan Marayag, B.A., Nada Marjanovic, M.S., Eugene V. Millar, Ph.D., Venugopalan D. Nair, Ph.D., German Nudelman, Ph.D., Edgar Nunez, A.S., Brian L. Pike, Ph.D., Chad Porter, Ph.D., James Regeimbal, Ph.D., Stas Rirak, M.S., Ernesto Santa Ana, A.S., Rachel S.G. Sealfon, Ph.D., Robert Sebra, Ph.D., Mark P. Simons, Ph.D., Alessandra Soares-Schanoski, Ph.D., Victor Sugiharto, Ph.D., Michael Termini, M.D., Sindhu Vangeti, Ph.D., Carlos Williams, M.D., Olga G. Troyanskaya, Ph.D., Harm van Bakel, Ph.D., and Stuart C. Sealfon, M.D.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2029717

11           The lockdown effect: A counterfactual for Sweden

Benjamin Born ,    Alexander M. Dietrich ,    Gernot J. Müller

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249732

12           COVID-19 pandemic-related lockdown: response time is more important than its strictness

Gil Loewenthal, Shiran Abadi, Oren Avram, Keren Halabi, Noa Ecker, Natan Nagar, Itay Mayrose, Tal Pupko

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.11.20128520v1.full

13           Lockdown Effects on Sars-CoV-2 Transmission – The evidence from Northern Jutland

Kasper Planeta Kepp, e Christian Bjørnskov

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.28.20248936v1.full

14           Full lockdown policies in Western Europe countries have no evident impacts on the COVID-19 epidemic

Thomas Meunier

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20078717v1

15           Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against COVID-19

Jan M. Brauner, Sören Mindermann, Mrinank Sharma, David Johnston,  John Salvatier,  Tomáš Gavenčiak, Anna B. Stephenson,  Gavin Leech,  George Altman, Vladimir Mikulik, Alexander John Norman,  Joshua Teperowski Monrad,  Tamay Besiroglu,  Hong Ge,  Meghan A. Hartwick, Yee Whye Teh,  Leonid Chindelevitch, Yarin Gal,  Jan Kulveit

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6531/eabd9338/tab-pdf

16           Was Germany’s Corona Lockdown Necessary?

Christof Kuhbandner, Stefan Homburg, Harald Walach, Stefan Hockertz

https://advance.sagepub.com/articles/preprint/Comment_on_Dehning_et_al_Science_15_May_2020_eabb9789_Inferring_change_points_in_the_spread_of_COVID-19_reveals_the_effectiveness_of_interventions_/12362645

17           Inferring UK COVID-19 fatal infection trajectories from daily mortality data: were infections already in decline before the UK lockdowns?

Simon N. Wood

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02090

18           Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe

Seth Flaxman, Swapnil Mishra, Axel Gandy, H. Juliette T. Unwin, Thomas A. Mellan, Helen Coupland, Charles Whittaker, Harrison Zhu, Tresnia Berah, Jeffrey W. Eaton, Mélodie Monod, Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, Azra C. Ghani, Christl A. Donnelly, Steven Riley, Michaela A. C. Vollmer, Neil M. Ferguson, Lucy C. Okell & Samir Bhatt

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2405-7

19           Comment on Flaxman et al. (2020, Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2405-7): The 1illusory effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe

Stefan Homburg1, Christof Kuhbandner

https://advance.sagepub.com/articles/preprint/Comment_on_Flaxman_et_al_2020_The_illusory_effects_of_non-pharmaceutical_interventions_on_COVID-19_in_Europe/12479987

20           Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 in Europe: A quasi-experimental study

Paul R Hunter, Felipe J Colón-González, Julii Brainard, Steven Rushton

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.01.20088260v2

21           Trajectory of COVID-19 epidemic in Europe

Marco Colombo, Joseph Mellor, Helen M Colhoun, M Gabriela M Gomes, Paul M McKeigue

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.26.20202267v1

22           Effect of school closures on mortality from coronavirus disease 2019: old and new predictions

Ken Rices,  Ben Wynne,  Victoria Martins,  Graeme J Ackland

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3588

23           Modeling social distancing strategies to prevent SARS-CoV2 spread in Israel- A Cost-effectiveness analysis

Amir Shlomai, Ari Leshno, View ORCID ProfileElla H. Sklan, View ORCID ProfileMoshe Leshno

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047860v3

24           Smart Thinking, Lockdown and COVID-19: Implications for Public Policy

Morris Altman

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607803

25           SARS-CoV-2 waves in Europe: A 2-stratum SEIRS model solution

Levan Djaparidze, Federico Lois

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.09.20210146v2

26           Four Stylized Facts about COVID-19

 Andrew Atkeson, Karen Kopecky & Tao Zha

https://www.nber.org/papers/w27719

27           Association between living with children and outcomes from COVID-19: an OpenSAFELY cohort study of 12 million adults in England

Harriet Forbes, Caroline E Morton, Seb Bacon, View ORCID ProfileHelen I McDonald, Caroline Minassian, Jeremy P Brown, View ORCID ProfileChristopher T Rentsch, View ORCID ProfileRohini Mathur, Anna Schultze, Nicholas J DeVito, View ORCID ProfileBrian MacKenna, William J Hulme, Richard Croker, Alex J Walker, Elizabeth J Williamson, Chris Bates, Amir Mehrkar, View ORCID ProfileHelen J Curtis, David Evans, Kevin Wing, Peter Inglesby, Henry Drysdale, Angel YS Wong, Jonathan Cockburn, Robert McManus, John Parry, Frank Hester, Sam Harper, Ian J Douglas, Liam Smeeth, Stephen JW Evans, Krishnan Bhaskaran, View ORCID ProfileRosalind M Eggo, View ORCID ProfileBen Goldacre, Laurie A Tomlinson

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.01.20222315v1

28           Exploring inter-country coronavirus mortality

Trevor Nell, Ian McGorian, Nick Hudson

https://pandata.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exploring-inter-country-variation.pdf

29           Lockdowns and Closures vs COVID –19: COVID Wins

Surjit S Bhalla

http://ssbhalla.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Lockdowns-Closures-vs.-COVID19-Covid-Wins-Nov-4.pdf

30           Government mandated lockdowns do not reduce Covid-19 deaths: implications for evaluating the stringent New Zealand response

John Gibson

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00779954.2020.1844786

31           Predicting the Trajectory of Any COVID19 Epidemic From the Best Straight Line

Michael Levitt, Andrea Scaiewicz, Francesco Zonta

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.26.20140814v2

32           Potential lessons from the Taiwan and New Zealand health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

Dr Jennifer Summers, Dr Hao-Yuan Cheng, Professor Hsien-Ho Lin, Dr Lucy Telfar Barnard, Dr Amanda Kvalsvig, Professor Nick Wilson, Professor Michael G Baker

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(20)30044-4/fulltext

33           Commentary on : Potential lessons from the Taiwan and New Zealand health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

Amelia Janaskie

https://www.aier.org/article/the-mystery-of-taiwan/

34           Effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19: A Tale of Three Models

Vincent Chin, John P.A. Ioannidis, Martin A. Tanner, Sally Cripps

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.22.20160341v3

35           A First Literature Review: Lockdowns Only Had a Small Effect on COVID-19

Jonas Herby

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3764553

36           COVID-19 Lockdown Policies: An Interdisciplinary Review

Oliver Robinson

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3782395

37           The effect of interventions on COVID-19

Kristian Soltesz, Fredrik Gustafsson, Toomas Timpka, Joakim Jaldén, Carl Jidling, Albin Heimerson, Thomas B. Schön, Armin Spreco, Joakim Ekberg, Örjan Dahlström, Fredrik Bagge Carlson, Anna Jöud & Bo Bernhardsson

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-3025-y

38           Evaluating the effects of shelter-in-place policies during the COVID-19 pandemic

Christopher R. Berry, Anthony Fowler, Tamara Glazer, Samantha Handel-Meyer, and Alec MacMillen

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/15/e2019706118

39           Longitudinal variability in mortality predicts Covid-19 deaths

Jon O. Lundberg, Hugo Zeberg

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.25.20248853v1.full-text

40           Evaluating the effects of shelter-in-place policiesduring the COVID-19 pandemic

Christopher R. Berrya, Anthony Fowlera, Tamara Glazera, Samantha Handel-Meyera, and Alec MacMillen

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/118/15/e2019706118.full.pdf

41           SARS-CoV-2 elimination, not mitigation, creates best outcomes for health, the economy, and civil liberties

Miquel Oliu-Barton, *Bary S R Pradelski, Philippe Aghion, Patrick Artus, Ilona Kickbusch, Jeffrey V Lazarus, Devi Sridhar, Samantha Vanderslot

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00978-8/fulltext

 

42           THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND POLICY RESPONSES ON EXCESS MORTALITY

Virat Agrawal, Jonathan H. Cantor, Neeraj Sood, Christopher M. Whaley

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28930/w28930.pdf?utm_campaign=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&amp%3Butm_medium=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&amp%3Butm_source=PANTHEON_STRIPPED

43           Policy and Effectiveness of Covid-19 Response

Serge Dolgikh

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.27.21257908v1.full-text      

44           Externality and COVID-19

Peter T. Leeson, Louis Rouanet

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/soej.12497#.YJF0yRvGTjQ.twitter

45           Imagination and remembrance: what role should historical epidemiology play in a world bewitched by mathematical modelling of COVID19 and other epidemics?

George S. Heriot · Euzebiusz Jamrozik

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40656-021-00422-6.pdf

              

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