Epidemiology

Fatality assessment and variant risk monitoring for COVID-19 using three new hospital occupancy related metrics

1. Ping-Wu Zhang
2. Steven H. Zhang
3. Wei-Feng Li
4. Casey J. Keuthan
5. Shuaizhang Li
6. Felipe Takaesu
7. Cynthia A. Berlinicke
8. Jun Wan
9. Jing Sun
10. Donald J. Zack

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Early guidance for Sars-Cov-2 health policies in India: Social Distancing amidst Vaccination and Virus Variants ^*

1. Yi Zhang
2. Sanjiv Kapoor

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Risk of severe COVID-19 from the Delta and Omicron variants in relation to vaccination status, sex, age and comorbidities – surveillance results from southern Sweden, July 2021 to January 2022

1. Fredrik Kahn
2. Carl Bonander
3. Mahnaz Moghaddassi
4. Magnus Rasmussen
5. Ulf Malmqvist
6. Malin Inghammar
7. Jonas Björk

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Fairness and efficiency considerations in COVID-19 vaccine allocation strategies: A case study comparing front-line workers and 65–74 year olds in the United States

1. Eva Rumpler
2. Justin M. Feldman
3. Mary T. Bassett
4. Marc Lipsitch

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Linking rattiness, geography and environmental degradation to spillover Leptospira infections in marginalised urban settings: An eco-epidemiological community-based cohort study in Brazil

1. Max T Eyre
2. Fábio N Souza
3. Ticiana SA Carvalho-Pereira
4. Nivison Nery
5. Daiana de Oliveira
6. Jaqueline S Cruz
7. Gielson A Sacramento
8. Hussein Khalil
9. Elsio A Wunder
10. Kathryn P Hacker
11. José E Hagan
12. James E Childs
13. Mitermayer G Reis
14. Mike Begon
15. Peter J Diggle
16. Albert I Ko
17. Emanuele Giorgi
18. Federico Costa

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  Evaluation Summary:

  Leptospirosis is an important zoonotic disease with a major global health impact. Although the role of rats as hosts is well known, it is less clear how important the fine-scale local and simultaneous presence of infected rats is relative to contact with water that could have been contaminated by rats elsewhere, or some time in the past. This study leverages a fine-scaled spatial dataset on human infection data and rat abundance to address this question, using a carefully developed statistical model that incorporates key variables and takes into account spatial variation. The models show that 'rattiness', a proxy for local rat abundance, might be an important driver of human infection risk, suggesting that rodent control measures might be an avenue for lowering the risk of infection with Leptospira bacteria.

  (This preprint has been reviewed by eLife. We include the public reviews from the reviewers here; the authors also receive private feedback with suggested changes to the manuscript. Reviewer #3 agreed to share their name with the authors.)

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COVID-19 Vaccination is Associated with Decreasing Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths Across Age Groups and Variants over 9 months in Switzerland

1. Jean-Luc Jucker

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Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam COVID-19 exposure index: a cross-sectional analysis of the impact of the pandemic on daily functioning of older adults

1. Emiel O Hoogendijk
2. Noah A Schuster
3. Theo G van Tilburg
4. Laura A Schaap
5. Bianca Suanet
6. Sascha De Breij
7. Almar AL Kok
8. Natasja M Van Schoor
9. Erik J Timmermans
10. Renate T de Jongh
11. Marjolein Visser
12. Martijn Huisman

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Mental health in a diverse sample of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional analysis of the UK-REACH study

1. Carl A Melbourne
2. Anna L Guyatt
3. Laura Nellums
4. Padmasayee Papineni
5. Amit Gupta
6. Irtiza Qureshi
7. Christopher A Martin
8. Luke Bryant
9. Catherine John
10. Mayuri Gogoi
11. Fatimah Wobi
12. Amani Al-Oraibi
13. Jonathan Chaloner
14. Avinash Aujayeb
15. Bindu Gregary
16. Susie Lagrata
17. Rubina Reza
18. Sandra Simpson
19. Stephen Zingwe
20. Martin Tobin
21. Sue Carr
22. Kamlesh Khunti
23. Laura J Gray
24. I Chris McManus
25. Katherine Woolf
26. Manish Pareek

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Device-assessed sleep and physical activity in individuals recovering from a hospital admission for COVID-19: a prospective, multicentre study

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Nucleocapsid and spike antibody responses following virologically confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection: an observational analysis in the Virus Watch community cohort

1. Annalan M D Navaratnam
2. Madhumita Shrotri
3. Vincent Nguyen
4. Isobel Braithwaite
5. Sarah Beale
6. Thomas E Byrne
7. Wing Lam Erica Fong
8. Ellen Fragaszy
9. Cyril Geismar
10. Susan Hoskins
11. Jana Kovar
12. Parth Patel
13. Alexei Yavlinsky
14. Anna Aryee
15. Alison Rodger
16. Andrew C Hayward
17. Robert W Aldridge
18. Susan Michie
19. Pia Hardelid
20. Linda Wijlaars
21. Eleni Nastouli
22. Moira Spyer
23. Ben Killingley
24. Ingemar Cox
25. Vasileios Lampos
26. Rachel A McKendry
27. Tao Cheng
28. Yunzhe Liu
29. Jo Gibbs
30. Richard Gilson
31. Anne M Johnson

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