The emergence, genomic diversity and global spread of SARS-CoV-2

J Li, S Lai, GF Gao, W Shi - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Since the first cases of COVID-19 were documented in Wuhan, China in 2019, the world has
witnessed a devastating global pandemic, with more than 238 million cases, nearly 5 million …

Social physics

M Jusup, P Holme, K Kanazawa, M Takayasu, I Romić… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2

JE Pekar, A Magee, E Parker, N Moshiri, K Izhikevich… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Understanding the circumstances that lead to pandemics is important for their prevention.
We analyzed the genomic diversity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21

H Wang, KR Paulson, SA Pease, S Watson, H Comfort… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Mortality statistics are fundamental to public health decision making. Mortality
varies by time and location, and its measurement is affected by well known biases that have …

Infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections and reinfections during the Omicron wave

ST Tan, AT Kwan, I Rodríguez-Barraquer, BJ Singer… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) breakthrough infections in
vaccinated individuals and reinfections in previously infected individuals have become …

Estimating infectiousness throughout SARS-CoV-2 infection course

TC Jones, G Biele, B Mühlemann, T Veith, J Schneider… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Although post facto studies have revealed the importance of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission from presymptomatic …

Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

B Hu, H Guo, P Zhou, ZL Shi - Nature reviews microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly transmissible
and pathogenic coronavirus that emerged in late 2019 and has caused a pandemic of acute …

Testing at scale during the COVID-19 pandemic

TR Mercer, M Salit - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Assembly and publication of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) genome in January 2020 enabled the immediate development of tests to detect the …

SARS-CoV-2: structure, biology, and structure-based therapeutics development

MY Wang, R Zhao, LJ Gao, XF Gao… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The pandemic of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
has been posing great threats to the world in many aspects. Effective therapeutic and …

The impact of vaccination on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks in the United States

SM Moghadas, TN Vilches, K Zhang… - Clinical Infectious …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Global vaccine development efforts have been accelerated in response to the
devastating coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We evaluated the impact of a …