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 …

Transmissibility and transmission of respiratory viruses

NHL Leung - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
Human respiratory virus infections lead to a spectrum of respiratory symptoms and disease
severity, contributing to substantial morbidity, mortality and economic losses worldwide, as …

[HTML][HTML] Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2

T Greenhalgh, JL Jimenez, KA Prather, Z Tufekci… - The lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
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[HTML][HTML] What we know so far: COVID-19 current clinical knowledge and research

MA Lake - Clinical medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
In December 2019, health authorities in Wuhan, China, identified a cluster of pneumonia
cases of unknown aetiology linked to the city's South China Seafood Market. Subsequent …

[HTML][HTML] Reproductive number of coronavirus: A systematic review and meta-analysis based on global level evidence

MA Billah, MM Miah, MN Khan - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background The coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) is now a global concern because of its higher
transmission capacity and associated adverse consequences including death. The …

Estimation of the transmission risk of the 2019-nCoV and its implication for public health interventions

B Tang, X Wang, Q Li, NL Bragazzi, S Tang… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Since the emergence of the first cases in Wuhan, China, the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
infection has been quickly spreading out to other provinces and neighboring countries …

2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: built environment considerations to reduce transmission

L Dietz, PF Horve, DA Coil, M Fretz, JA Eisen… - Msystems, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
With the rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
that results in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), corporate entities, federal, state …

SARS-CoV-2 and coronavirus disease 2019: what we know so far

FA Rabi, MS Al Zoubi, GA Kasasbeh, DM Salameh… - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
In December 2019, a cluster of fatal pneumonia cases presented in Wuhan, China. They
were caused by a previously unknown coronavirus. All patients had been associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Complexity of the basic reproduction number (R0)

PL Delamater, EJ Street, TF Leslie… - Emerging infectious …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The basic reproduction number (R 0), also called the basic reproduction ratio or rate or the
basic reproductive rate, is an epidemiologic metric used to describe the contagiousness or …

The macroeconomics of epidemics

MS Eichenbaum, S Rebelo… - The Review of Financial …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We extend the canonical epidemiology model to study the interaction between economic
decisions and epidemics. Our model implies that people cut back on consumption and work …