SARS-CoV-2 variant biology: immune escape, transmission and fitness

AM Carabelli, TP Peacock, LG Thorne… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In late 2020, after circulating for almost a year in the human population, severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exhibited a major step change in its …

Severity and outcomes of Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 compared to Delta variant and severity of Omicron sublineages: a systematic review and metanalysis

P Relan, NV Motaze, K Kothari, L Askie… - BMJ Global …, 2023 - gh.bmj.com
Objectives To compare severity and clinical outcomes from Omicron as compared with the
Delta variant and to compare outcomes between Omicron sublineages. Methods We …

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 …

Impacts of human mobility on the citywide transmission dynamics of 18 respiratory viruses in pre-and post-COVID-19 pandemic years

AC Perofsky, CL Hansen, R Burstein, S Boyle… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Many studies have used mobile device location data to model SARS-CoV-2 dynamics, yet
relationships between mobility behavior and endemic respiratory pathogens are less …

Discriminatory attitudes against unvaccinated people during the pandemic

A Bor, F Jørgensen, MB Petersen - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
During the COVID-19 pandemic, sizeable groups of unvaccinated people persist even in
countries with high vaccine access. As a consequence, vaccination became a controversial …

Fitness, growth and transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants

E Volz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The massive scale of the global SARS-CoV-2 sequencing effort created new opportunities
and challenges for understanding SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Rapid detection and assessment …

Assessment of efficacy and safety of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in children aged 5 to 11 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis

A Watanabe, R Kani, M Iwagami, H Takagi… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Evidence of the efficacy and safety of messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19
vaccines in children aged 5 to 11 years has been emerging. Collecting these data will inform …

Genomic assessment of invasion dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 1

JLH Tsui, JT McCrone, B Lambert, S Bajaj, RPD Inward… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern (VOCs)
now arise in the context of heterogeneous human connectivity and population immunity …

Effect of SARS-CoV-2 prior infection and mRNA vaccination on contagiousness and susceptibility to infection

D Mongin, N Bürgisser, G Laurie, G Schimmel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The immunity conferred by SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and infections reduces the transmission
of the virus. To answer how the effect of immunity is shared between a reduction of …

Comparative transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron (B. 1.1. 529) and Delta (B. 1.617. 2) variants and the impact of vaccination: national cohort study, England

H Allen, E Tessier, C Turner, C Anderson… - Epidemiology & …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant (B.
1.1. 529) rapidly replaced Delta (B. 1.617. 2) to become dominant in England. Our study …