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Euro Surveill . Setting thresholds to determine COVID-19 activity levels using the mean standard deviation (MSD) method, England, 2022-2024

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tetano

Editor, Senior Moderator
Euro Surveill


. 2024 Nov;29(45).
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.45.2400696. Setting thresholds to determine COVID-19 activity levels using the mean standard deviation (MSD) method, England, 2022-2024

Mary A Sinnathamby[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Tania Bourouphael[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jacob Boateng[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Magali Collonnaz[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Catherine Quinot[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Nurin Abdul Aziz[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Suzanne Elgohari[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Rebecca E Green[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Gavin Dabrera[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jamie Lopez-Bernal[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Alex Allen[SUP] 1 [/SUP]



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Abstract

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.

Keywords: COVID-19; epidemiology; influenza; thresholds.

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