And finally Chloé Aupépin presented a poster on the impact of bacterial vaccines on #AMR ! 🦠

Using modelling, we can identify which bacteria and vaccine characteristics influence most the impact of these vaccines on reducing infections 📉

Another day another presentation, this time by Elise Hodbert on patient-transfer networks within and between hospitals! 🏥

Networks are mostly used for surveillance, to identify the facilities to monitor to detect outbreaks early. Possibly under-used for infectious disease transmission modelling...?

Overall, we identified optimal conditions to maximize quarantine hospital strategy benefits in an epidemic situation. We propose several recommendations to implement such a strategy when facing a virus with characteristics similar than SARS-CoV-2.

Thanks again to all co-authors for this work! 😁
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Of course, deciding whether or not to implement this strategy depends on other factors.
However, importantly, other studies did not find a difference in the mental health of HCWs between quarantine and non-quarantine hospitals, suggesting this would not be a barrier to implementation.

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However, we find that this strategy only has a strong impact if:
- epidemic control is high in the community
- symptomatic HCWs comply well with self-isolation
Otherwise, increased transmission in the community counters the benefit of reduced nosocomial risk.

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In a medium-sized city with two hospitals, we estimate that converting one of the two hospitals to a "quarantine hospital" can decrease the attack rate in HCWs by more than 10 percentage points, and the attack rate in non-HCWs by more than 20pp.

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As shown in other work (eg bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....), hospital-acquired infections can significantly drive overall COVID-19 dynamics, hence the importance of reducing them.

In our work, we show that the quarantine hospital strategy can be effective for this purpose.

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Quarantine hospitals were fully dedicated to the care of COVID-19 infected patients & staffed by healthcare workers staying continuously inside for 1-2 week-long shifts.
To understand their impact compared to keeping usual hospital organisation, we built a model coupling hospitals & community 💻

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And no, I will never stop reminding people that these are burden *estimates* and not data, this is most certainly a hill I will die on 🙃

Haha merci, je transmettrai à mon pote caché dans le public qui a joué au photographe pour l'occasion 😂

Programme pour moi:
- tous les jours : stand "Révéler les dynamiques invisibles des épidémies"
- vendredi 21h05: "Juste Nombre", tentez votre chance pour gagner des lots !
- vendredi 22h : "Speed Searching", je répondrai à vos questions les plus folles (eg: quelle quantité de café je bois par jour?)