COVID-19 false dichotomies and a comprehensive review of the evidence regarding public health, COVID-19 symptomatology, SARS-CoV-2 transmission, mask …

K Escandón, AL Rasmussen, II Bogoch… - BMC infectious …, 2021 - Springer
Scientists across disciplines, policymakers, and journalists have voiced frustration at the
unprecedented polarization and misinformation around coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID …

[HTML][HTML] The role of children in household transmission of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

F Chen, Y Tian, L Zhang, Y Shi - International Journal of Infectious …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives To explore household transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 in children in new-variants
dominating periods. Methods Through retrieval in PubMed and Embase, studies were …

Household COVID-19 risk and in-person schooling

J Lessler, MK Grabowski, KH Grantz… - Science, 2021 - science.org
In-person schooling has proved contentious and difficult to study throughout the severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. Data from a massive …

Child transmission of SARS-CoV-2: a systematic review and meta-analysis

SL Silverberg, BY Zhang, SNJ Li, C Burgert, HP Shulha… - BMC pediatrics, 2022 - Springer
Background Understanding of the role of children in COVID-19 transmission has significant
implications for school and childcare policies, as well as appropriate targeting of vaccine …

High COVID-19 transmission potential associated with re-opening universities can be mitigated with layered interventions

E Brooks-Pollock, H Christensen, A Trickey… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Controlling COVID-19 transmission in universities poses challenges due to the complex
social networks and potential for asymptomatic spread. We developed a stochastic …

Do asymptomatic carriers of SARS-COV-2 transmit the virus?

CP Muller - The Lancet Regional Health–Europe, 2021 - thelancet.com
journal homepage: www. elsevier. com/lanepe early days after infection, when most AIC
transmission studies were done. Thus, it is not surprizing that AIC were found to be …

Contact tracing efficiency, transmission heterogeneity, and accelerating COVID-19 epidemics

BJ Gardner, AM Kilpatrick - PLOS Computational Biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Simultaneously controlling COVID-19 epidemics and limiting economic and societal impacts
presents a difficult challenge, especially with limited public health budgets. Testing, contact …

Could widespread use of antiviral treatment curb the COVID-19 pandemic? A modeling study

L Matrajt, ER Brown, MS Cohen, D Dimitrov… - BMC Infectious …, 2022 - Springer
Background Despite the development of safe and effective vaccines, effective treatments for
COVID-19 disease are still urgently needed. Several antiviral drugs have shown to be …

Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies, risk factors for infection and associated symptoms in Geneva, Switzerland: a population-based study

A Richard, A Wisniak, J Perez-Saez… - … journal of public …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims: To assess SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence over the first epidemic wave in the canton of
Geneva, Switzerland, as well as risk factors for infection and symptoms associated with IgG …

Evaluating the impact of stay-at-home and quarantine measures on COVID-19 spread

R Zhang, Y Wang, Z Lv, S Pei - BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022 - Springer
Background During the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries
implemented non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to control the transmission of SARS …