Cécile Viboud is a staff scientist based in the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health, where she is part of the Multinational Influenza Seasonal Mortality Study (MISMS).
[1] She moved to Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) for her graduate studies, where she specialised in public health.
[2] The method of analogues is a model borrowed from meteorology, using vectors from historical influenza epidemics that matches current activity.
She found that people in the Hubei province who experienced SARS-CoV-2 symptoms waited longer before seeking help than in other parts of China, or even those overseas.
[10] The delay between symptom onset and visiting a clinic was found to decrease throughout January, which Viboud associated with and increase in news reports and content sharing on social media.
[12] Throughout February and March 2020 Viboud continued to monitor the evolving epidemic, looking to describe the epidemiology and transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 as it spread beyond Hubei province.
[17] In April 2020, Viboud commented that the number of Americans who had lost their lives to SARS-CoV-2 was likely to be considerably higher than was officially reported.