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CoronaSurveys: Using Surveys with Indirect Reporting to Estimate the Incidence and Evolution of Epidemics

Oluwasegun Ojo
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Augusto García-Agundez
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Benjamin Girault
Harold Hernández
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Elisa Cabana
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Amanda García-García
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Payman Arabshahi
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Carlos Baquero
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Paolo Casari
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Ednaldo José Ferreira
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Chryssis Georgiou
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Mathieu Goessens
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Anna Ishchenko
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Ernesto Jiménez
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Oleksiy Kebkal
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Rosa Lillo
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Raquel Menezes
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Nicolas Nicolaou
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Antonio Ortega
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Paul Patras
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Julian C Roberts
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Efstathios Stavrakis
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Yuichi Tanaka
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Antonio Fernández Anta
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Abstract

The world is suffering from a pandemic called COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. National governments have problems evaluating the reach of the epidemic, due to having limited resources and tests at their disposal. This problem is especially acute in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Hence, any simple, cheap and flexible means of evaluating the incidence and evolution of the epidemic in a given country with a reasonable level of accuracy is useful. In this paper, we propose a technique based on (anonymous) surveys in which participants report on the health status of their contacts. This indirect reporting technique, known in the literature as network scale-up method, preserves the privacy of the participants and their contacts, and collects information from a larger fraction of the population (as compared to individual surveys). This technique has been deployed in the CoronaSurveys project, which has been collecting reports for the COVID-19 pandemic for more than two months. Results obtained by CoronaSurveys show the power and flexibility of the approach, suggesting that it could be an inexpensive and powerful tool for LMICs.

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hal-03145879 , version 1 (18-02-2021)

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Oluwasegun Ojo, Augusto García-Agundez, Benjamin Girault, Harold Hernández, Elisa Cabana, et al.. CoronaSurveys: Using Surveys with Indirect Reporting to Estimate the Incidence and Evolution of Epidemics. 2021. ⟨hal-03145879⟩
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