The emergence, genomic diversity and global spread of SARS-CoV-2

J Li, S Lai, GF Gao, W Shi - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Since the first cases of COVID-19 were documented in Wuhan, China in 2019, the world has
witnessed a devastating global pandemic, with more than 238 million cases, nearly 5 million …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 in early 2021: current status and looking forward

C Wang, Z Wang, G Wang, JYN Lau… - Signal Transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Since the first description of a coronavirus-related pneumonia outbreak in December 2019,
the virus SARS-CoV-2 that causes the infection/disease (COVID-19) has evolved into a …

A SIR model assumption for the spread of COVID-19 in different communities

I Cooper, A Mondal, CG Antonopoulos - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we study the effectiveness of the modelling approach on the pandemic due to
the spreading of the novel COVID-19 disease and develop a susceptible-infected-removed …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of isolation, testing, contact tracing, and physical distancing on reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in different settings: a mathematical …

AJ Kucharski, P Klepac, AJK Conlan… - The Lancet infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background The isolation of symptomatic cases and tracing of contacts has been used as an
early COVID-19 containment measure in many countries, with additional physical distancing …

The psychological impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on health professionals: a cross-sectional study

EM Giusti, E Pedroli, GE D'Aniello… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic had a massive impact on health care systems,
increasing the risks of psychological distress in health professionals. This study aims at …

Covasim: an agent-based model of COVID-19 dynamics and interventions

CC Kerr, RM Stuart, D Mistry… - PLOS Computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgent need for models that can project epidemic
trends, explore intervention scenarios, and estimate resource needs. Here we describe the …

COVID-ABS: An agent-based model of COVID-19 epidemic to simulate health and economic effects of social distancing interventions

PCL Silva, PVC Batista, HS Lima, MA Alves… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2020 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has directly impacted the
public health and economy worldwide. To overcome this problem, countries have adopted …

The efficacy of social distance and ventilation effectiveness in preventing COVID-19 transmission

C Sun, Z Zhai - Sustainable cities and society, 2020 - Elsevier
Social distancing and ventilation were emphasized broadly to control the ongoing pandemic
COVID-19 in confined spaces. Rationales behind these two strategies, however, were …

Modeling vaccination rollouts, SARS-CoV-2 variants and the requirement for non-pharmaceutical interventions in Italy

G Giordano, M Colaneri, A Di Filippo, F Blanchini… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Despite progress in clinical care for patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19),
population-wide interventions are still crucial to manage the pandemic, which has been …

A mathematical model for COVID-19 transmission dynamics with a case study of India

P Samui, J Mondal, S Khajanchi - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2020 - Elsevier
The ongoing COVID-19 has precipitated a major global crisis, with 968,117 total confirmed
cases, 612,782 total recovered cases and 24,915 deaths in India as of July 15, 2020. In …