[HTML][HTML] COVID-19: rethinking the lockdown groupthink

AR Joffe - Frontiers in public health, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused the
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide pandemic in 2020. In response, most …

Masks and face coverings for the lay public: A narrative update

T Czypionka, T Greenhalgh, D Bassler… - Annals of internal …, 2021 - acpjournals.org
Whether and when to mandate the wearing of facemasks in the community to prevent the
spread of coronavirus disease 2019 remains controversial. Published literature across …

A time-dependent SIR model for COVID-19 with undetectable infected persons

YC Chen, PE Lu, CS Chang… - Ieee transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we conduct mathematical and numerical analyses for COVID-19. To predict the
trend of COVID-19, we propose a time-dependent SIR model that tracks the transmission …

Immune life history, vaccination, and the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 over the next 5 years

CM Saad-Roy, CE Wagner, RE Baker, SE Morris… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The future trajectory of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic hinges on the
dynamics of adaptive immunity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 …

The challenges of containing SARS-CoV-2 via test-trace-and-isolate

S Contreras, J Dehning, M Loidolt, J Zierenberg… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Without a cure, vaccine, or proven long-term immunity against SARS-CoV-2, test-trace-and-
isolate (TTI) strategies present a promising tool to contain its spread. For any TTI strategy …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of heterogeneity on hypergraph contagion models

NW Landry, JG Restrepo - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The dynamics of network social contagion processes such as opinion formation and
epidemic spreading are often mediated by interactions between multiple nodes. Previous …

A social network model of COVID-19

A Karaivanov - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
I construct a dynamic social-network model of the COVID-19 epidemic which embeds the
SIR epidemiological model onto a graph of person-to-person interactions. The standard SIR …

Anatomy of digital contact tracing: Role of age, transmission setting, adoption, and case detection

JA Moreno López, B Arregui García, P Bentkowski… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The efficacy of digital contact tracing against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
epidemic is debated: Smartphone penetration is limited in many countries, with low …

Clinical impact, costs, and cost-effectiveness of expanded severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 testing in Massachusetts

AM Neilan, E Losina, AC Bangs… - Clinical Infectious …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background We projected the clinical and economic impact of alternative testing strategies
on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) incidence and mortality in Massachusetts using a …

Model-driven mitigation measures for reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic

RS McGee, JR Homburger… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Reopening schools is an urgent priority as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on. To explore the
risks associated with returning to in-person learning and the value of mitigation measures …