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Since early 2020, countries around the world have seen unprecedented government-imposed restrictions and behavioural changes that have changed the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. These changes have posed unique challenges for routine seasonal infectious disease forecasting systems, which have seen the relevance of their rich long-term pre-COVID-19 datasets for prediction questioned in this new era.

Physician and founder of the Tropical Health and Education Trust. He was born in Cardiff, UK, on Nov 28, 1930 and died of pneumonia in London, UK, on Nov 13, 2022 aged 91 years.

“I know it's most likely I got COVID-19 from my 2-year-old daughter”, says Fallen Mendes, a 37-year-old industrial psychologist from Cape Town, South Africa, who works for the Department of the Premier in the Western Cape, looking after leadership development and culture.

Pieter Van Der Wal first noticed something was wrong on a climbing trip with his wife Nelly in 2013. “I was out of breath, and struggling with the climb”, he tells The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. Pieter, now aged 74 years, believed the problem was with his heart, and that is what he told both the doctor where he was on holiday in Austria, and his local general practitioner (GP) when he returned to his home in Ridderkerk (The Netherlands). As he didn't do quite so much physical activity, the symptoms of breathlessness went away.

Child and adolescent psychiatrist, psychiatric epidemiologist, and global leader in adolescent health. Born on Dec 31, 1954, in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, he died of gastric cancer on Dec 7, 2022, in Melbourne, aged 67 years.