Multiple models for outbreak decision support in the face of uncertainty

Policymakers must make management decisions despite incomplete knowledge and conflicting model projections. Little guidance exists for the rapid, representative, and unbiased collection of policy-relevant scientific input from independent modeling teams. Integrating approaches from decision analysis, expert judgment, and model aggregation, we convened multiple modeling teams to evaluate COVID-19 reopening strategies for a mid-sized United States county early in the pandemic. Projections from seventeen distinct models were inconsistent in magnitude but highly consistent in ranking interventions. The 6-mo-ahead aggregate projections were well in line with observed outbreaks in mid-sized US counties. The aggregate results showed that up to half the population could be infected with full workplace reopening, while workplace restrictions reduced median cumulative infections by 82%. Rankings of interventions were consistent across public health objectives, but there was a strong trade-off between public health outcomes and duration of workplace closures, and no win-win intermediate reopening strategies were identified. Between-model variation was high; the aggregate results thus provide valuable risk quantification for decision making. This approach can be applied to the evaluation of management interventions in any setting where models are used to inform decision making. This case study demonstrated the utility of our approach and was one of several multimodel efforts that laid the groundwork for the COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub, which has provided multiple rounds of real-time scenario projections for situational awareness and decision making to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since December 2020.

Errataetall:

UpdateOf: medRxiv. 2020 Nov 05;:. - PMID 33173914

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:120

Enthalten in:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 120(2023), 18 vom: 02. Mai, Seite e2207537120

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shea, Katriona [VerfasserIn]
Borchering, Rebecca K [VerfasserIn]
Probert, William J M [VerfasserIn]
Howerton, Emily [VerfasserIn]
Bogich, Tiffany L [VerfasserIn]
Li, Shou-Li [VerfasserIn]
van Panhuis, Willem G [VerfasserIn]
Viboud, Cecile [VerfasserIn]
Aguás, Ricardo [VerfasserIn]
Belov, Artur A [VerfasserIn]
Bhargava, Sanjana H [VerfasserIn]
Cavany, Sean M [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Joshua C [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Cynthia [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jinghui [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Shi [VerfasserIn]
Chen, YangQuan [VerfasserIn]
Childs, Lauren M [VerfasserIn]
Chow, Carson C [VerfasserIn]
Crooker, Isabel [VerfasserIn]
Del Valle, Sara Y [VerfasserIn]
España, Guido [VerfasserIn]
Fairchild, Geoffrey [VerfasserIn]
Gerkin, Richard C [VerfasserIn]
Germann, Timothy C [VerfasserIn]
Gu, Quanquan [VerfasserIn]
Guan, Xiangyang [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Lihong [VerfasserIn]
Hart, Gregory R [VerfasserIn]
Hladish, Thomas J [VerfasserIn]
Hupert, Nathaniel [VerfasserIn]
Janies, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Kerr, Cliff C [VerfasserIn]
Klein, Daniel J [VerfasserIn]
Klein, Eili Y [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Gary [VerfasserIn]
Manore, Carrie [VerfasserIn]
Meyers, Lauren Ancel [VerfasserIn]
Mittler, John E [VerfasserIn]
Mu, Kunpeng [VerfasserIn]
Núñez, Rafael C [VerfasserIn]
Oidtman, Rachel J [VerfasserIn]
Pasco, Remy [VerfasserIn]
Pastore Y Piontti, Ana [VerfasserIn]
Paul, Rajib [VerfasserIn]
Pearson, Carl A B [VerfasserIn]
Perdomo, Dianela R [VerfasserIn]
Perkins, T Alex [VerfasserIn]
Pierce, Kelly [VerfasserIn]
Pillai, Alexander N [VerfasserIn]
Rael, Rosalyn Cherie [VerfasserIn]
Rosenfeld, Katherine [VerfasserIn]
Ross, Chrysm Watson [VerfasserIn]
Spencer, Julie A [VerfasserIn]
Stoltzfus, Arlin B [VerfasserIn]
Toh, Kok Ben [VerfasserIn]
Vattikuti, Shashaank [VerfasserIn]
Vespignani, Alessandro [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Lingxiao [VerfasserIn]
White, Lisa J [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Pan [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Yupeng [VerfasserIn]
Yogurtcu, Osman N [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Weitong [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Yanting [VerfasserIn]
Zou, Difan [VerfasserIn]
Ferrari, Matthew J [VerfasserIn]
Pannell, David [VerfasserIn]
Tildesley, Michael J [VerfasserIn]
Seifarth, Jack [VerfasserIn]
Johnson, Elyse [VerfasserIn]
Biggerstaff, Matthew [VerfasserIn]
Johansson, Michael A [VerfasserIn]
Slayton, Rachel B [VerfasserIn]
Levander, John D [VerfasserIn]
Stazer, Jeff [VerfasserIn]
Kerr, Jessica [VerfasserIn]
Runge, Michael C [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cognitive biases
Decision theory
Journal Article
Multi-model aggregation
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

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Date Completed 27.04.2023

Date Revised 15.06.2023

published: Print-Electronic

UpdateOf: medRxiv. 2020 Nov 05;:. - PMID 33173914

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1073/pnas.2207537120

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM356017176