Setting thresholds to determine COVID-19 activity levels using the mean standard deviation (MSD) method, England, 2022–2024
We developed a new activity level setting threshold method, the mean standard deviation (MSD) method to quantify COVID-19 activity levels. This has been validated against the moving epidemic method (MEM), which has been used for influenza for many years, and we observed very similar results. The MSD method can prove to be a tool to use for respiratory viruses with limited historical data or seasonality to quantify activity levels when other respiratory viruses are also circulating.
Authors
- Alex Allen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6998-447X)
- Suzanne Elgohari
- Mary Sinnathamby (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6212-4672)
- Nurin Iwani Binti Abdul Aziz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8098-6935)
- Rebecca E Green
- Catherine Quinot (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5634-7073)
- Jacob Boateng
- Gavin Dabrera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4606-5945)
- Jamie Lopez-Bernal
- Tania Bourouphael
- Magali Collonnaz
Publication Details
- Journal
- Eurosurveillance
- Published
- 2024-11-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es.2024.29.45.2400696
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.79