Effectiveness of public health measures in reducing the incidence of covid-19, SARS-CoV-2 transmission, and covid-19 mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis

S Talic, S Shah, H Wild, D Gasevic, A Maharaj, Z Ademi… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Objective To review the evidence on the effectiveness of public health measures in reducing
the incidence of covid-19, SARS-CoV-2 transmission, and covid-19 mortality. Design …

The impact of COVID-19 on TB: a review of the data

CF McQuaid, A Vassall, T Cohen… - … of Tuberculosis and …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, models predicted hundreds of thousands of additional TB
deaths as a result of health service disruption. To date, empirical evidence on the effects of …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid review of social contact patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic

CY Liu, J Berlin, MC Kiti, E Del Fava, A Grow… - …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Background: Physical distancing measures aim to reduce person-to-person contact, a key
driver of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission. In …

Literature review of omicron: a grim reality amidst COVID-19

S Arora, V Grover, P Saluja, YA Algarni, SA Saquib… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) first emerged in Wuhan city in December 2019, and
became a grave global concern due to its highly infectious nature. The Severe Acute …

Social contact patterns and implications for infectious disease transmission–a systematic review and meta-analysis of contact surveys

A Mousa, P Winskill, OJ Watson, O Ratmann, M Monod… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Background: Transmission of respiratory pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 depends on
patterns of contact and mixing across populations. Understanding this is crucial to predict …

Dynamics of non-household contacts during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 in the Netherlands

JA Backer, L Bogaardt, P Beutels, P Coletti… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic was in 2020 and 2021 for a large part mitigated by reducing
contacts in the general population. To monitor how these contacts changed over the course …

COVID-19 social distancing compliance mechanisms: UK evidence

JS Wu, X Font, C McCamley - Environmental research, 2022 - Elsevier
Non-compliance with social distancing (SD) measures clearly has negative effects on both
public health and post-pandemic economic recovery. However, little is as yet known about …

[HTML][HTML] Knowledge and practice of personal protective measures against COVID-19 in Africa: systematic review

J Kawuki, PS Chan, Y Fang, S Chen… - JMIR Public Health …, 2023 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background With COVID-19 being a newly evolving disease, its response measures largely
depend on the practice of and compliance with personal protective measures (PPMs) …

Performance evaluation of lateral flow assays for coronavirus disease-19 serology

L Ochola, P Ogongo, S Mungai… - Clinics in laboratory …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by infection with the severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), has undoubtedly resulted in …

Characterising social contacts under COVID-19 control measures in Africa

Z Dobreva, A Gimma, H Rohan, B Djoudalbaye… - BMC medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, countries adopted non-pharmaceutical
interventions (NPIs) such as lockdowns to limit SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Social contact …