Cécile Viboud

Jan 7, 2025 | nature.com | Joseph Tsui |Jun Cai |Cécile Viboud |Louis du Plessis |Philippe Lemey

AbstractEast, South, and Southeast Asia (together referred to as Southeastern Asia hereafter) have been recognized as critical areas fuelling the global circulation of seasonal influenza. However, the seasonal influenza migration network within Southeastern Asia remains unclear, including how pandemic-related disruptions altered this network.

Jul 25, 2024 | nature.com | Sarabeth Mathis |Lauren White |Roni Rosenfeld |Daniel McDonald |Daniel Mcdonald |Sen Pei | +41 more

AbstractAccurate forecasts can enable more effective public health responses during seasonal influenza epidemics. For the 2021–22 and 2022–23 influenza seasons, 26 forecasting teams provided national and jurisdiction-specific probabilistic predictions of weekly confirmed influenza hospital admissions for one-to-four weeks ahead. Forecast skill is evaluated using the Weighted Interval Score (WIS), relative WIS, and coverage.

Jun 20, 2024 | medrxiv.org | Zhiyuan Chen |Joseph Tsui |Jun Cai |Cécile Viboud

H.Y. received research funding from Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline, Yichang HEC Changjiang, Shanghai Roche Pharmaceutical Company, and SINOVAC Biotech Ltd. None of these funds are related to this work. All other authors declare no competing interests. H.Y. acknowledges financial support from the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 82130093) and the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 82073613).

Jan 3, 2024 | medrxiv.org | Chelsea Hansen |Cécile Viboud |Lone Simonsen

LS acknowledges funding from the Carlsberg Foundation, grant number CF20-0046. LS and CLH acknowledge funding from Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF) for PandemiX Center of Excellence. CLH has received contract-based hourly consulting fees from Sanofi outside of the submitted work. This research was not a clinical trial. No external funding was received for this work.

Dec 10, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Cécile Viboud |Bryan T. Grenfell |Alexandra B Hogan |Samantha J. Bents

1 INTRODUCTION Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most common cause of lower respiratory infections and is responsible for an estimated 5% of under-five mortality globally.1 The majority of RSV disease burden is concentrated in low-resource settings, with 97% of all RSV-related deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).2 Almost all children are infected by the age of 2 years, but severe infections occur primarily in infants under 6 months of age.3-5 Given the short...