Lessons learned 1 year after SARS-CoV-2 emergence leading to COVID-19 pandemic

KKW To, S Sridhar, KHY Chiu, DLL Hung… - Emerging microbes & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Without modern medical management and vaccines, the severity of the Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review and meta-analysis of published research data on COVID-19 infection fatality rates

G Meyerowitz-Katz, L Merone - International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020 - Elsevier
An important unknown during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has
been the infection fatality rate (IFR). This differs from the case fatality rate (CFR) as an …

Mobilizing policy (in) capacity to fight COVID-19: Understanding variations in state responses

G Capano, M Howlett, DSL Jarvis, M Ramesh… - Policy and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The objective of this collection of essays is to gain insights into the different national-level
state responses to COVID-19 around the world and the conditions that shaped them. The …

Establishment and lineage dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in the UK

L Du Plessis, JT McCrone, AE Zarebski, V Hill, C Ruis… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The United Kingdom's COVID-19 epidemic during early 2020 was one of world's largest and
was unusually well represented by virus genomic sampling. We determined the fine-scale …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 cases, deaths, and demand for hospital services in the UK: a modelling study

NG Davies, AJ Kucharski, RM Eggo… - The Lancet Public …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Non-pharmaceutical interventions have been implemented to reduce
transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the UK …

Evolution and epidemic spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil

DS Candido, IM Claro, JG De Jesus, WM Souza… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Brazil currently has one of the fastest-growing severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemics in the world. Because of limited available data …

Humoral immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in Iceland

DF Gudbjartsson, GL Norddahl, P Melsted… - … England Journal of …, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Little is known about the nature and durability of the humoral immune response
to infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Methods …

Estimating the burden of SARS-CoV-2 in France

H Salje, C Tran Kiem, N Lefrancq, N Courtejoie… - Science, 2020 - science.org
France has been heavily affected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and went into lockdown on 17 March 2020. Using models applied …

Convalescent plasma or hyperimmune immunoglobulin for people with COVID‐19: a living systematic review

I Monsef, C Doree, EM Wood… - Cochrane Database …, 2020 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Convalescent plasma and hyperimmune immunoglobulin may reduce mortality
in patients with viral respiratory diseases, and are currently being investigated in trials as …

SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) by the numbers

YM Bar-On, A Flamholz, R Phillips, R Milo - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The COVID-19 pandemic is a harsh reminder of the fact that, whether in a single human host
or a wave of infection across continents, viral dynamics is often a story about the numbers. In …