Mar, Javier http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9455-4869
Ibarrondo, Oliver
Estadilla, Carlo Delfin S.
Stollenwerk, Nico
Antoñanzas, Fernando
Blasco-Aguado, Rubén
Larrañaga, Igor
Bidaurrazaga, Joseba
Aguiar, Maíra
Funding for this research was provided by:
Hezkuntza, Hizkuntza Politika Eta Kultura Saila, Eusko Jaurlaritza (Mathematical Modeling Applied to Health” Project, the BERC 2022-2025 programme)
Berrikuntza + Ikerketa + Osasuna Eusko Fundazioa (BIO21/COV/001)
Article History
Accepted: 9 October 2023
First Online: 1 November 2023
Declarations
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: The study was funded by the Basque Foundation for Health Innovation and Research (Grant number BIO21/COV/001), the Basque Government, through the “Mathematical Modeling Applied to Health” Project and the BERC 2022-2025 programme, and the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, through the Severo Ochoa accreditation (SEV-2017-0718) of the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics. The funding sources had no involvement in the study design in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, in the writing of the report or in the decision to submit the article.
: Javier Mar, Oliver Ibarrondo, Carlo Delfin S. Estadilla, Nico Stollenwerk, Fernando Antoñanzas, Rubén Blasco-Aguado, Igor Larrañaga, Joseba Bidaurrazaga and Maíra Aguiar have no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.
: The study protocol (ref: EOM2021029) was approved by the Ethics and Clinical Research Committee of the Basque Country on 18 May, 2021. This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and received approval from the Ethics and Clinical Research Committee of Euskadi (study code EOM2021029), which waived the informed consent as all data were anonymised.
: Not applicable.
: Not applicable.
: Data were provided by the Basque Health Service. Our data sharing agreement clearly stipulates that they cannot be shared with any third party.
: Not applicable.
: JM and MA conceived and designed the research. JB provided the epidemiological data and analysed the COVID-19 outcomes. OI, FA and IL obtained the data, performed the simulated and observed analyses, interpreted the data and drafted the results section. MA, RB, CDSE and NS developed and analysed the dynamic model, and wrote the corresponding methods section. JM, MA, FA and OI drafted the manuscript. All authors revised the manuscript for important intellectual content and approved the final version. Further, they all had full access to all the data used in the study and accepted responsibility to submit for publication.