Short News from WG3

After two interesting Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) in Working group 3 (WG3) of the SOUND-control COST Action in 2019, in 2020 the work was dedicated in summarizing all the acquired results & feedback from the two STSMs. Main challenge of WG3 is identifying and addressing the “problem in question”; providing statistical justification that a country is free from infection, given the information provided by a surveillance program in place. An important step towards it, is to outline all the epidemiological and statistical considerations for substantiating freedom from infection in an output-based framework and present & evaluate methods with potential to use. Thus, alongside WG3 members, we are working on this task aiming to produce a publication that will have a high impact in the challenge of proving freedom from infection.