Transmission‐dynamics models for the SARS Coronavirus‐2
Transmission‐dynamics models for the SARS Coronavirus‐2
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DOI:
10.1002/ajhb.23512
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发表时间:
2020-09
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
J. Jones;A. Hazel;Zack W. Almquist
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作者:
J. Jones;A. Hazel;Zack W. Almquist
Infectious disease is central to the human experience. It has served as a major source of selection on human populations (Armelagos & Dewey, 1970) and consequently many of the regions of the human genome that have been under particularly strong selection in the recent past (ie, since Holocene) are immune-related and presumably a function of infectious disease (Karlsson, Kwiatkowski, & Sabeti, 2014). Infectious disease is clearly central to our understanding of the peopling of the world (Black, 1975; Cockburn, 1971). Continuing to the present, infectious disease is a major determinant of population health (Heesterbeek et al., 2015) and a key contributor to persistent socio-economic inequality (Bonds, Keenan, Rohani, & Sachs, 2010; Sachs & Malaney, 2002). It is therefore surprising that there has been relatively little formal work on infectious disease dynamics and their consequences for populations and individuals embedded within populations within the fields of Human Biology and Biological Anthropology. Human biology remains concerned with the consequences of infectious disease (eg, Dinkel et al., 2020; Gurven, Kaplan, & Supa, 2007; Houldcroft, Ramond, Rifkin, & Underdown, 2017; Houldcroft & Underdown, 2016; McDade et al., 2012), but with precious few exceptions (Hazel & Jones, 2018; Hazel, Marino, & Simon, 2015; Hazel, Ponnaluri-Wears, Davis, Low, & Foxman, 2014; McGrath, 1988; Nakazawa, Ohmae, Ishii, & Leafasia, 1998; O'Neil & Sattenspiel, 2010; Sattenspiel, Koopman, Simon, & Jacquez, 1990; Upham, 1986) generally does not integrate the rich body of theory and methodology derived from mathematical models of transmission dynamics. The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to engage these research communities. We will focus our mini-review on topics that we think are likely to resonate with the readership of AJHB. After introducing the formalisms of transmission-dynamics models for infectious disease and how these models have been used to gain insight into the origin, amplification, and dissemination of the SARS Coronavirus-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, we will turn to topics of particular interest for anthropologists: the role population structure plays in shaping transmission dynamics, geography and mobility, simple models of socio-economic and health inequality and their implications for epidemic control, and the consequences for structured interpersonal relations, as formalized using networks, for disease transmission and control.