Recent progress in understanding 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) associated with human respiratory disease: detection, mechanisms and treatment

S Kang, W Peng, Y Zhu, S Lu, M Zhou, W Lin… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Viral respiratory diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle
East respiratory syndrome (MERS) always pose a severe threat to people. First identified in …

Human mobility and the global spread of infectious diseases: a focus on air travel

A Findlater, II Bogoch - Trends in parasitology, 2018 - cell.com
Greater human mobility, largely driven by air travel, is leading to an increase in the
frequency and reach of infectious disease epidemics. Air travel can rapidly connect any two …

Estimated effectiveness of symptom and risk screening to prevent the spread of COVID-19

K Gostic, ACR Gomez, RO Mummah, AJ Kucharski… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Traveller screening is being used to limit further spread of COVID-19 following its recent
emergence, and symptom screening has become a ubiquitous tool in the global response …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of self-imposed prevention measures and short-term government-imposed social distancing on mitigating and delaying a COVID-19 epidemic: A …

A Teslya, TM Pham, NG Godijk, ME Kretzschmar… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread to nearly every country in the world …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of airport screening at detecting travellers infected with novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

BJ Quilty, S Clifford, S Flasche, RM Eggo - Eurosurveillance, 2020 - eurosurveillance.org
We evaluated effectiveness of thermal passenger screening for 2019-nCoV infection at
airport exit and entry to inform public health decision-making. In our baseline scenario, we …

The age distribution of mortality from novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) suggests no large difference of susceptibility by age

R Omori, R Matsuyama, Y Nakata - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Among Italy, Spain, and Japan, the age distributions of COVID-19 mortality show
only small variation even though the number of deaths per country shows large variation. To …

[PDF][PDF] Non-pharmaceutical public health measures for mitigating the risk and impact of epidemic and pandemic influenza: annex: report of systematic literature …

World Health Organization - 2019 - apps.who.int
New influenza A viruses emerge in humans from time to time, causing global pandemics.
The most recent influenza pandemic began in 2009 with the influenza A (H1N1) pdm09 …

Reopening K-12 schools during the COVID-19 pandemic: Prioritizing health, equity, and communities

H Schweingruber, K Dibner, EC Bond - 2020 - books.google.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges to the nation's K-12
education system. The rush to slow the spread of the virus led to closures of schools across …

International travel‐related control measures to contain the COVID‐19 pandemic: a rapid review

JM Stratil, RL Biallas, M Coenen… - Cochrane Database …, 2021 - cochranelibrary.com
Background In late 2019, the first cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) were
reported in Wuhan, China, followed by a worldwide spread. Numerous countries have …

Comparing nonpharmaceutical interventions for containing emerging epidemics

CM Peak, LM Childs, YH Grad… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Strategies for containing an emerging infectious disease outbreak must be
nonpharmaceutical when drugs or vaccines for the pathogen do not yet exist or are …