Sex difference in coronavirus disease (COVID-19): a systematic review and meta-analysis

BB Abate, AM Kassie, MW Kassaw, TG Aragie… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To assess the sex difference in the prevalence of COVID-19 confirmed cases.
Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Setting PubMed, Cochrane Library and …

Next generation sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes: challenges, applications and opportunities

M Chiara, AM D'Erchia, C Gissi… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Various next generation sequencing (NGS) based strategies have been successfully used in
the recent past for tracing origins and understanding the evolution of infectious agents …

[HTML][HTML] Lack of trust, conspiracy beliefs, and social media use predict COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

W Jennings, G Stoker, H Bunting, VO Valgarðsson… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
As COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out across the world, there are growing concerns about the
roles that trust, belief in conspiracy theories, and spread of misinformation through social …

Collectivism predicts mask use during COVID-19

JG Lu, P **, AS English - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2021 - pnas.org
Since its outbreak, COVID-19 has impacted world regions differentially. Whereas some
regions still record tens of thousands of new infections daily, other regions have contained …

Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries

JM Aburto, J Schöley, I Kashnitsky… - International journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Variations in the age patterns and magnitudes of excess deaths, as well as
differences in population sizes and age structures, make cross-national comparisons of the …

Modelling the COVID-19 epidemic and implementation of population-wide interventions in Italy

G Giordano, F Blanchini, R Bruno, P Colaneri… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract In Italy, 128,948 confirmed cases and 15,887 deaths of people who tested positive
for SARS-CoV-2 were registered as of 5 April 2020. Ending the global SARS-CoV-2 …

Psychological outcomes associated with stay-at-home orders and the perceived impact of COVID-19 on daily life

MT Tull, KA Edmonds, KM Scamaldo, JR Richmond… - Psychiatry …, 2020 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the widespread implementation of extraordinary
physical distancing interventions (eg, stay-at-home orders) to slow the spread of the virus …

Impact of delays on effectiveness of contact tracing strategies for COVID-19: a modelling study

ME Kretzschmar, G Rozhnova, MCJ Bootsma… - The Lancet Public …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background In countries with declining numbers of confirmed cases of COVID-19, lockdown
measures are gradually being lifted. However, even if most physical distancing measures …

Spread and dynamics of the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy: Effects of emergency containment measures

M Gatto, E Bertuzzo, L Mari, S Miccoli, L Carraro… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy prompted drastic measures for
transmission containment. We examine the effects of these interventions, based on …

GIS-based spatial modeling of COVID-19 incidence rate in the continental United States

A Mollalo, B Vahedi, KM Rivera - Science of the total environment, 2020 - Elsevier
During the first 90 days of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, over 675,000
confirmed cases of the disease have been reported, posing unprecedented socioeconomic …