Lessons learned 1 year after SARS-CoV-2 emergence leading to COVID-19 pandemic

KKW To, S Sridhar, KHY Chiu, DLL Hung… - Emerging microbes & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Without modern medical management and vaccines, the severity of the Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) …

Environmental factors influencing COVID-19 incidence and severity

AK Weaver, JR Head, CF Gould… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Emerging evidence supports a link between environmental factors—including air pollution
and chemical exposures, climate, and the built environment—and severe acute respiratory …

Wuhan to world: the COVID-19 pandemic

A Kumar, R Singh, J Kaur, S Pandey… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 is a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), caused by SARS-CoV-2, a
novel virus which belongs to the family Coronaviridae. It was first reported in December …

Contamination of inert surfaces by SARS-CoV-2: Persistence, stability and infectivity. A review

M Marquès, JL Domingo - Environmental research, 2021 - Elsevier
Undoubtedly, there is a tremendous concern regarding the new viral strain" Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2"(SARS-CoV-2) and its related disease known as …

[HTML][HTML] Role of meteorological factors in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States

Y Ma, S Pei, J Shaman, R Dubrow, K Chen - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Improved understanding of the effects of meteorological conditions on the transmission of
SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent for COVID-19 disease, is needed. Here, we estimate the …

Temperature and population density influence SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the absence of nonpharmaceutical interventions

TP Smith, S Flaxman, AS Gallinat… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
As COVID-19 continues to spread across the world, it is increasingly important to understand
the factors that influence its transmission. Seasonal variation driven by responses to …

Heterogeneity in transmissibility and shedding SARS-CoV-2 via droplets and aerosols

PZ Chen, N Bobrovitz, Z Premji, M Koopmans… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Background: Which virological factors mediate overdispersion in the transmissibility of
emerging viruses remains a long-standing question in infectious disease epidemiology …

Associations between indoor relative humidity and global COVID-19 outcomes

CA Verheyen, L Bourouiba - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Globally, the spread and severity of COVID-19 have been distinctly non-uniform. Seasonality
was suggested as a contributor to regional variability, but the relationship between weather …

Climatic signatures in the different COVID-19 pandemic waves across both hemispheres

A Fontal, MJ Bouma, A San-José, L López… - Nature Computational …, 2021 - nature.com
The roles of climate and true seasonal signatures in the epidemiology of emergent
pathogens, and that of SARS-CoV-2 in particular, remain poorly understood. With a …

Evidence for a semisolid phase state of aerosols and droplets relevant to the airborne and surface survival of pathogens

E Huynh, A Olinger, D Woolley… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The phase state of respiratory aerosols and droplets has been linked to the humidity-
dependent survival of pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2. To inform strategies to mitigate the …