Coronavirus (COVID-19): modelling the epidemic (issue no. 53)
Latest findings in modelling the COVID-19 epidemic in Scotland, both in terms of the spread of the disease through the population (epidemiological modelling) and of the demands it will place on the system, for example in terms of health care requirement.
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Footnotes
1 Particular care should be taken when interpreting this estimate as it is based on low numbers of cases, hospitalisations, or deaths and / or dominated by clustered outbreaks. They should not be treated as robust enough to inform policy decisions alone.
2 Deaths, Cases and Hospitalisations from PHS COVID-19 daily cases in Scotland dashboard.
3 Vaccination and contact data for the 0-17 age cohort is not presented due to the vast majority of this age group not being offered vaccinations and the SCS excluding contacts between children.
4 Both scenarios are based on current vaccine roll-out plans and efficacy assumptions.
5 Four week projections are included here.
6 Both scenarios are based on current vaccine roll-out plans and efficacy assumptions.
7 The actual positive tests are adjusted to coincide with the estimated day of infection.
8 Actual data does not include full numbers of CPAP. ICU bed actuals include all ICU patients being treated for Covid-19 including those over 28 days.
9 Four week projections are provided here: Scientific evidence supporting the government response to coronavirus (COVID-19) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
11 An anomalously high value in Seafield (Edinburgh) in mid-February is removed. See Issue 40 for details.
12 The blue line and points give a population weighted weekly average in the Local Authority area, with the shape of each point denoting the percentage of the LA population covered by WW sampling that week.
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