The proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infections that are asymptomatic: a systematic review

DP Oran, EJ Topol - Annals of internal medicine, 2021 - acpjournals.org
Background: Asymptomatic infection seems to be a notable feature of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the pathogen that causes coronavirus …

Racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19–related infections, hospitalizations, and deaths: a systematic review

K Mackey, CK Ayers, KK Kondo, S Saha… - Annals of internal …, 2021 - acpjournals.org
Background: Data suggest that the effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) differ
among US racial/ethnic groups. Purpose: To evaluate racial/ethnic disparities in severe …

Amplification-free detection of SARS-CoV-2 with CRISPR-Cas13a and mobile phone microscopy

P Fozouni, S Son, MD de León Derby, GJ Knott… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The December 2019 outbreak of a novel respiratory virus, SARS-CoV-2, has become an
ongoing global pandemic due in part to the challenge of identifying symptomatic …

Type I interferon autoantibodies are associated with systemic immune alterations in patients with COVID-19

MGP van der Wijst, SE Vazquez… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Neutralizing autoantibodies against type I interferons (IFNs) have been found in some
patients with critical coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease caused by severe …

Proportion of asymptomatic infection among COVID-19 positive persons and their transmission potential: A systematic review and meta-analysis

M Yanes-Lane, N Winters, F Fregonese, M Bastos… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background The study objective was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis on
the proportion of asymptomatic infection among coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

[HTML][HTML] Infection fatality rate of COVID-19 inferred from seroprevalence data

JPA Ioannidis - Bulletin of the world health organization, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To estimate the infection fatality rate of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from
seroprevalence data. Methods I searched PubMed and preprint servers for COVID-19 …

Genome sequencing of sewage detects regionally prevalent SARS-CoV-2 variants

A Crits-Christoph, RS Kantor, MR Olm, ON Whitney… - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Viral genome sequencing has guided our understanding of the spread and extent of genetic
diversity of SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 viral genomes are …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the age specificity of infection fatality rates for COVID-19: systematic review, meta-analysis, and public policy implications

AT Levin, WP Hanage, N Owusu-Boaitey… - European journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Determine age-specific infection fatality rates for COVID-19 to inform public health policies
and communications that help protect vulnerable age groups. Studies of COVID-19 …

Racial/Ethnic Disparities In COVID-19 Exposure Risk, Testing, And Cases At The Subcounty Level In California: Study examines racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 …

MB Reitsma, AL Claypool, J Vargo, PB Shete… - Health …, 2021 - healthaffairs.org
With a population of forty million and substantial geographic variation in sociodemographics
and health services, California is an important setting in which to study disparities. Its …

Performance characteristics of a rapid severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 antigen detection assay at a public plaza testing site in San Francisco

G Pilarowski, P Lebel, S Sunshine, J Liu… - The Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We evaluated the performance of the Abbott BinaxNOW rapid antigen test for coronavirus
disease 2019 (Binax-CoV2) to detect virus among persons, regardless of symptoms, at a …