[HTML][HTML] Summary of guidance for minimizing the impact of COVID-19 on individual persons, communities, and health care systems—United States, August 2022

GM Massetti - MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2022 - cdc.gov
To prevent medically significant COVID-19 illness and death, persons must understand their
risk, take steps to protect themselves and others with vaccines, therapeutics, and …

COVID-19 symptoms and duration of rapid antigen test positivity at a community testing and surveillance site during pre-delta, delta, and omicron BA. 1 periods

C Marquez, AD Kerkhoff, J Schrom, S Rojas… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Characterizing the clinical symptoms and evolution of community-based SARS-
CoV-2 infections may inform health practitioners and public health officials in a rapidly …

[HTML][HTML] Estimate of COVID-19 deaths, China, December 2022–February 2023

Z Du, Y Wang, Y Bai, L Wang, BJ Cowling… - Emerging Infectious …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
China announced a slight easing of its zero-COVID rules on November 11, 2022, and then a
major relaxation on December 7, 2022. We estimate that the ensuing wave of SARS-CoV-2 …

Performance of rapid antigen tests to detect symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A prospective cohort study

A Soni, C Herbert, H Lin, Y Yan, C Pretz… - Annals of internal …, 2023 - acpjournals.org
Background: The performance of rapid antigen tests (Ag-RDTs) for screening asymptomatic
and symptomatic persons for SARS-CoV-2 is not well established. Objective: To evaluate …

Sensitivity of rapid antigen tests against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron and Delta variants

A Rao, A Westbrook, L Bassit, R Parsons… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Rapid antigen tests (RATs) have become an invaluable tool for combating the COVID-19
pandemic. However, concerns have been raised regarding the ability of existing RATs to …

The unmitigated profile of COVID-19 infectiousness

R Sender, Y Bar-On, SW Park, E Noor, J Dushoff… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Quantifying the temporal dynamics of infectiousness of individuals infected with SARS-CoV-
2 is crucial for understanding the spread of COVID-19 and for evaluating the effectiveness of …

At-home versus onsite COVID-19 school-based testing: a randomized noninferiority trial

SM Kiene, C McDaniels-Davidson, CD Lin… - …, 2023 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVES Equitable access to coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) screening is important to
reduce transmission and maintain in-person learning for middle school communities …

Tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis syndrome and SARS-CoV-2 infection in an adolescent: just a coincidence in time?

S García-Fernández, E Fernández-Morán… - Pediatric …, 2023 - Springer
Background Despite recent well-established kidney tropism of severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), usually presenting as acute kidney injury (AKI) …

Prevalence and Risk Factors for School-Associated Transmission of SARS-CoV-2

SB Nelson, CM Dugdale, IR Brenner… - JAMA Health …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance School-associated SARS-CoV-2 transmission is described as uncommon,
although the true transmission rate is unknown. Objective To identify the SARS-CoV-2 …

COVID-19 antigen results correlate with the quantity of replication-competent SARS-CoV-2 in a cross-sectional study of ambulatory adults during the Delta wave

YP Tu, C Green, L Hao, AL Greninger… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Appropriate interpretation of various diagnostic tests for COVID-19 is critical, yet the
association among rapid antigen tests, reverse transcription (RT)-PCR, and viral culture has …