Leveraging multiple data types to estimate the size of the Zika epidemic in the Americas.

• Main Authors: Sean M Moore (Author), Rachel J Oidtman (Author), K James Soda (Author), Amir S Siraj (Author), Robert C Reiner (Author), Christopher M Barker (Author), T Alex Perkins (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Several hundred thousand Zika cases have been reported across the Americas since 2015. Incidence of infection was likely much higher, however, due to a high frequency of asymptomatic infection and other challenges that surveillance systems faced. Using a hierarchical Bayesian model with empirically-...