Non‐pharmacological measures implemented in the setting of long‐term care facilities to prevent SARS‐CoV‐2 infections and their consequences: a rapid review

JM Stratil, RL Biallas, J Burns, L Arnold… - Cochrane Database …, 2021 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Starting in late 2019, COVID‐19, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐
2, spread around the world. Long‐term care facilities are at particularly high risk of …

[HTML][HTML] Caring for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

V Prendki, G Tiseo, M Falcone - Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Elderly patients represent a high-risk group with increased risk of death from
COVID-19. Despite the number of published studies, several unmet needs in care for older …

Recessive inborn errors of type I IFN immunity in children with COVID-19 pneumonia

Q Zhang, D Matuozzo, J Le Pen, D Lee… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
Recessive or dominant inborn errors of type I interferon (IFN) immunity can underlie critical
COVID-19 pneumonia in unvaccinated adults. The risk of COVID-19 pneumonia in …

Non-pharmaceutical interventions, vaccination, and the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant in England: a mathematical modelling study

R Sonabend, LK Whittles, N Imai, PN Perez-Guzman… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background England's COVID-19 roadmap out of lockdown policy set out the timeline and
conditions for the stepwise lifting of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) as vaccination …

[HTML][HTML] Individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 lowers the herd immunity threshold

MGM Gomes, MU Ferreira, RM Corder, JG King… - Journal of theoretical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Individual variation in susceptibility and exposure is subject to selection by natural infection,
accelerating the acquisition of immunity, and reducing herd immunity thresholds and …

[HTML][HTML] Humans with inherited MyD88 and IRAK-4 deficiencies are predisposed to hypoxemic COVID-19 pneumonia

A García-García, R Pérez de Diego, C Flores… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - rupress.org
Disclosures: C. Flores reported grants from Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spanish Ministry of
Science and Innovation, and Cabildo Insular de Tenerife outside the submitted work. J …

Optimal, near-optimal, and robust epidemic control

DH Morris, FW Rossine, JB Plotkin… - Communications Physics, 2021 - nature.com
In the absence of drugs and vaccines, policymakers use non-pharmaceutical interventions
such as social distancing to decrease rates of disease-causing contact, with the aim of …

Author Correction: Epidemiological drivers of transmissibility and severity of SARS-CoV-2 in England

PN Perez-Guzman, E Knock, N Imai, T Rawson… - nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The code linked in the Code availability statement in the Article is correct: https://github.
com/mrc-ide/sarscov2-severity-england. The previous incorrect version of the code is …

Estimating the COVID-19 infection fatality ratio accounting for seroreversion using statistical modelling

NF Brazeau, R Verity, S Jenks, H Fu… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Background The infection fatality ratio (IFR) is a key statistic for estimating the burden of
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and has been continuously debated throughout the …

Inference of the SARS-CoV-2 generation time using UK household data

WS Hart, S Abbott, A Endo, J Hellewell, E Miller… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The distribution of the generation time (the interval between individuals becoming infected
and transmitting the virus) characterises changes in the transmission risk during SARS-CoV …