Sex differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection rates and the potential link to prostate cancer

D Chakravarty, SS Nair, N Hammouda… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
The recent outbreak of infections and the pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 represent one
of the most severe threats to human health in more than a century. Emerging data from the …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling transmission of SARS-CoV-2 omicron in China

J Cai, X Deng, J Yang, K Sun, H Liu, Z Chen, C Peng… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Having adopted a dynamic zero-COVID strategy to respond to SARS-CoV-2 variants with
higher transmissibility since August 2021, China is now considering whether, and for how …

Estimation of novel coronavirus (COVID‐19) reproduction number and case fatality rate: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

T Ahammed, A Anjum, MM Rahman… - Health science …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background and aims Realizing the transmission potential and the magnitude of the
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) aids public health monitoring, strategies, and …

Prevalence and associated risk factors of mortality among COVID-19 patients: a meta-analysis

FM Noor, MM Islam - Journal of community health, 2020 - Springer
Objectives The main aim of this study was to find the prevalence of mortality among
hospitalized COVID-19 infected patients and associated risk factors for death. Methods …

Infectivity, susceptibility, and risk factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 transmission under intensive contact tracing in Hunan, China

S Hu, W Wang, Y Wang, M Litvinova, K Luo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Several mechanisms driving SARS-CoV-2 transmission remain unclear. Based on individual
records of 1178 potential SARS-CoV-2 infectors and their 15,648 contacts in Hunan, China …

Despite vaccination, China needs non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent widespread outbreaks of COVID-19 in 2021

J Yang, V Marziano, X Deng, G Guzzetta… - Nature human …, 2021 - nature.com
COVID-19 vaccination is being conducted in over 200 countries and regions to control
SARS-CoV-2 transmission and return to a pre-pandemic lifestyle. However, understanding …

COVID-19 in an international European liver transplant recipient cohort

C Becchetti, MF Zambelli, L Pasulo, MF Donato… - Gut, 2020 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Knowledge on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
infection in liver transplant recipients is lacking, particularly in terms of severity of the …

Variation in SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks across sub-Saharan Africa

BL Rice, A Annapragada, RE Baker, M Bruijning… - Nature Medicine, 2021 - nature.com
A surprising feature of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic to date is the low burdens reported in sub-
Saharan Africa (SSA) countries relative to other global regions. Potential explanations (for …

[HTML][HTML] Risk of death by age and gender from CoVID-19 in Peru, March-May, 2020

C Munayco, G Chowell, A Tariq, EA Undurraga… - Aging (Albany …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Peru implemented strict social distancing measures during the early phase of the epidemic
and is now experiencing one of the largest CoVID-19 epidemics in Latin America. Estimates …

Estimating age-specific COVID-19 fatality risk and time to death by comparing population diagnosis and death patterns: Australian data

IC Marschner - BMC medical research methodology, 2021 - Springer
Background Mortality is a key component of the natural history of COVID-19 infection.
Surveillance data on COVID-19 deaths and case diagnoses are widely available in the …