Global percentage of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections among the tested population and individuals with confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis: a systematic review and …

Q Ma, J Liu, Q Liu, L Kang, R Liu, W Jing… - JAMA network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Asymptomatic infections are potential sources of transmission for COVID-19.
Objective To evaluate the percentage of asymptomatic infections among individuals …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnostics for COVID-19: moving from pandemic response to control

RW Peeling, DL Heymann, YY Teo, PJ Garcia - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Diagnostics have proven to be crucial to the COVID-19 pandemic response. There are three
major methods for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection and their role has evolved during …

Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses

CC Wang, KA Prather, J Sznitman, JL Jimenez… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Exposure to droplets produced in the coughs and sneezes of infected
individuals or contact with droplet-contaminated surfaces (fomites) have been widely …

Estimating infectiousness throughout SARS-CoV-2 infection course

TC Jones, G Biele, B Mühlemann, T Veith, J Schneider… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Although post facto studies have revealed the importance of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission from presymptomatic …

[PDF][PDF] Living guidance for clinical management of COVID-19: living guidance, 23 November 2021

World Health Organization - 2021 - apps.who.int
This guideline is based on the above strategic priorities, and is intended for clinicians
involved in the care of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. It is not meant to …

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 …

Aging in COVID-19: Vulnerability, immunity and intervention

Y Chen, SL Klein, BT Garibaldi, H Li, C Wu… - Ageing research …, 2021 - Elsevier
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic was first
reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019, moved across the globe at an unprecedented …

[PDF][PDF] COVID-19 clinical management: living guidance, 25 January 2021

(‎ 2021 World Health Organization - 2021 - apps.who.int
The guidance in this document is based on the above strategic priorities, and is intended for
clinicians involved in the care of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. It is not …

SARS-CoV-2 D614G spike mutation increases entry efficiency with enhanced ACE2-binding affinity

S Ozono, Y Zhang, H Ode, K Sano, TS Tan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, is steadily mutating during
continuous transmission among humans. Such mutations can occur in the spike (S) protein …

Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and pathogenesis

AG Harrison, T Lin, P Wang - Trends in immunology, 2020 - cell.com
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) marks
the third highly pathogenic coronavirus to spill over into the human population. SARS-CoV-2 …