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10 March 2020

Explaining the COVID-19 outbreak and mitigation measures

Raya Muttarak writes about what we have learnt about the COVID-19 outbreak so far, and how collective mitigation measures could influence the spread of the disease.

Publications

Ghislandi, S., Muttarak, R. , Sauerberg, M., & Scotti, B. (2021). Human costs of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the major epicentres in Italy. In: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2022. Eds. Di Giulio, P., Goujon, A. , Marois, G. , & Goldstein, J., Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 10.1553/populationyearbook2022.res2.1.

Lamboll, R.D., Jones, C.D., Skeie, R.B., Fiedler, S., Samset, B.H., Gillett, N.P., Rogelj, J. , & Forster, P.M. (2021). Modifying emissions scenario projections to account for the effects of COVID-19: protocol for CovidMIP. Geoscientific Model Development 14 (6) 3683-3695. 10.5194/gmd-14-3683-2021.

Jones, C.D., Hickman, J.E., Rumbold, S.T., Walton, J., Lamboll, R.D., Skeie, R.B., Fiedler, S., Forster, P.M., Rogelj, J. , Abe, M., Botzet, M., Calvin, K., Cassou, C., Cole, J., Davini, P., Deushi, M., Dix, M., Fyfe, J., Gillett, N., Ilyina, T., Kawamiya, M., Kelley, M., Kharin, S., Koshiro, T., Li, H., Mackallah, C., Müller, W., Nabat, P., van Noije, T., Nolan, P., Ohgaito, R., Olivié, D., Oshima, N., Parodi, J., Reerink, T., Ren, L., Romanou, A., Séférian, R., Tang, Y., Timmreck, C., Tjiputra, J., Tourigny, E., Tsigaridis, K., Wang, H., Wu, M., Wyser, K., Yang, S., Yang, Y., & Ziehn, T. (2021). The Climate Response to Emissions Reductions Due to COVID‐19: Initial Results From CovidMIP. Geophysical Research Letters 48 (8) e2020GL091883. 10.1029/2020GL091883.

Chen, S., Prettner, K., Kuhn, M., Geldsetzer, P., Wang, C., Bärnighausen, T., & Bloom, D.E. (2021). Climate and the spread of COVID-19. Scientific Reports 11 (1) e9042. 10.1038/s41598-021-87692-z.

Contestabile, M., Srivastava, L., & Hackmann, H. (2021). A sustainable post-COVID future. Nature Sustainability 10.1038/s41893-021-00703-9.