The European Respiratory Diseases Forecasting Hub (RespiCast)
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RespiCast combines multiple forecasting hubs for several respiratory disease indicators, including influenza-like-illness (ILI), acute respiratory infection (ARI), and indicators related to COVID-19.
Teams from all over the world are invited to submit weekly forecasts for one or more disease indicators for one or more countries. These will be collated in one-to-four-week short-term forecasts on indicators - for example on the number of expected cases - for ILI, ARI, and COVID-19 across Europe as generated by independent teams. Those teams use a wide range of modelling infectious disease dynamics approaches. Individual forecasts are combined to create an ensemble forecast - an established way to achieve improved forecasting performance for infectious disease dynamics.
Pulling this information together in one place, the data, once available in RespiCast, aims to give decision-makers as well as the general public with reliable information about the epidemiological situation in Europe relating to respiratory illnesses in the near future.
RespiCast is a collaboration between the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the ISI Foundation, and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Teams from all over the world are invited to submit weekly forecasts for one or more disease indicators for one or more countries. These will be collated in one-to-four-week short-term forecasts on indicators - for example on the number of expected cases - for ILI, ARI, and COVID-19 across Europe as generated by independent teams. Those teams use a wide range of modelling infectious disease dynamics approaches. Individual forecasts are combined to create an ensemble forecast - an established way to achieve improved forecasting performance for infectious disease dynamics.
Pulling this information together in one place, the data, once available in RespiCast, aims to give decision-makers as well as the general public with reliable information about the epidemiological situation in Europe relating to respiratory illnesses in the near future.
RespiCast is a collaboration between the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the ISI Foundation, and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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