[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater: State of the knowledge and research needs

M Kitajima, W Ahmed, K Bibby, A Carducci… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been a Public Health …

A systematic review of COVID-19 epidemiology based on current evidence

M Park, AR Cook, JT Lim, Y Sun… - Journal of clinical medicine, 2020 - mdpi.com
As the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) continues to spread rapidly across the globe, we
aimed to identify and summarize the existing evidence on epidemiological characteristics of …

[HTML][HTML] Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis

R Verity, LC Okell, I Dorigatti, P Winskill… - The Lancet infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background In the face of rapidly changing data, a range of case fatality ratio estimates for
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been produced that differ substantially in …

Serial interval of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infections

H Nishiura, NM Linton, AR Akhmetzhanov - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective To estimate the serial interval of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) from information
on 28 infector-infectee pairs. Methods We collected dates of illness onset for primary cases …

Incubation period and other epidemiological characteristics of 2019 novel coronavirus infections with right truncation: a statistical analysis of publicly available case …

NM Linton, T Kobayashi, Y Yang, K Hayashi… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The geographic spread of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infections from the epicenter
of Wuhan, China, has provided an opportunity to study the natural history of the recently …

Iranian mental health during the COVID-19 epidemic

A Zandifar, R Badrfam - Asian journal of psychiatry, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
What has been the focus of attention of health care providers around the world for the last
two months has been the problem of the new coronavirus (Coronavirus disease-2019 …

Quantifying the impact of physical distance measures on the transmission of COVID-19 in the UK

CI Jarvis, K Van Zandvoort, A Gimma, K Prem… - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background To mitigate and slow the spread of COVID-19, many countries have adopted
unprecedented physical distancing policies, including the UK. We evaluate whether these …

[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 …

Optimization method for forecasting confirmed cases of COVID-19 in China

MAA Al-Qaness, AA Ewees, H Fan… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In December 2019, a novel coronavirus, called COVID-19, was discovered in Wuhan, China,
and has spread to different cities in China as well as to 24 other countries. The number of …

Real-time forecasts and risk assessment of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases: A data-driven analysis

T Chakraborty, I Ghosh - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a public health emergency
of international concern affecting 201 countries and territories around the globe. As of April …