Further Cautions When Modeling the Public Health Impact of Infectious Diseases

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¹ Philippe Vanhems is with the Service d'Hygiène, Epidémiologie et Prévention, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, and the Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI) Inserm U1111, CNRS UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, UCBL1, Lyon, France. Marta C. Nunes is with the Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, and the South African Medical Research Council, Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics (VIDA) Research Unit, and the Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation, South African Research Chair Initiative in Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Philippe Vanhems et al. Am J Public Health. 2022 Nov.

. 2022 Nov;112(11):e1-e2.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.307086.

¹ Philippe Vanhems is with the Service d'Hygiène, Epidémiologie et Prévention, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, and the Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI) Inserm U1111, CNRS UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, UCBL1, Lyon, France. Marta C. Nunes is with the Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, and the South African Medical Research Council, Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics (VIDA) Research Unit, and the Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation, South African Research Chair Initiative in Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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