Accurate Statistics on COVID-19 Are Essential for Policy Guidance and Decisions

Am J Public Health. 2020 Jul;110(7):949-951. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305708. Epub 2020 Apr 23.

Authors

Neil Pearce¹, Jan P Vandenbroucke¹, Tyler J VanderWeele¹, Sander Greenland¹

Affiliation

¹ Neil Pearce is with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, UK. Jan P. Vandenbroucke is with the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, and the LSHTM. Tyler J. VanderWeele is with the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Sander Greenland is with the Departments of Epidemiology and Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles.

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Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Databases, Factual / statistics & numerical data*
Health Policy
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Public Health
SARS-CoV-2
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / epidemiology
Spatio-Temporal Analysis