Epidemiology

Racial and ethnic disparities in coronavirus disease 2019 disease incidence independent of comorbidities, among people with HIV in the United States

1. Rachel A. Bender Ignacio
2. Adrienne E. Shapiro
3. Robin M. Nance
4. Bridget M. Whitney
5. Joseph A.C. Delaney
6. Laura Bamford
7. Darcy Wooten
8. Maile Y. Karris
9. William C. Mathews
10. Hyang Nina Kim
11. Jeanne Keruly
12. Greer Burkholder
13. Sonia Napravnik
14. Kenneth H. Mayer
15. Jeffrey Jacobson
16. Michael Saag
17. Richard D. Moore
18. Joseph J. Eron
19. Amanda L. Willig
20. Katerina A. Christopoulos
21. Jeffrey Martin
22. Peter W. Hunt
23. Heidi M. Crane
24. Mari M. Kitahata
25. Edward R. Cachay
26. for the Centers for AIDS Research Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS)†

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Selection for infectivity profiles in slow and fast epidemics, and the rise of SARS-CoV-2 variants

1. François Blanquart
2. Nathanaël Hozé
3. Benjamin John Cowling
4. Florence Débarre
5. Simon Cauchemez

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  Evaluation Summary:

  This manuscript will be of broad interest to readers interested in understanding characteristics of variants in ongoing epidemics that lead to faster (or slower) growth rates, and will be of particular interest to those wishing to understand the factors leading to selection of SARS-CoV-2 variants. The transmission advantage of a novel strain of a pathogen depends not only on its relative transmissibility, but also on its generation time relative to other strains; the relation between transmissibility, transmission advantage and generation time changes across different phases of the epidemic, enabling statistical inferences to be made about both the transmissibility advantage and generation time of an emerging variant. The method is supported by simulation studies and applied to the Alpha and Delta SARS-CoV-2 variants to show that selection was likely driven by changes in transmissibility rather than changes in the generation time.

  (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. The reviewers remained anonymous to the authors.)

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Dynamic analysis and evaluation of asymptomatic infection in the spread of COVID-19

1. Chuanqing Xu
2. Zonghao Zhang
3. Xiaotong Huang
4. Jingan Cui

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Superspreading of SARS-CoV-2 infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

1. Zhanwei Du
2. Chunyu Wang
3. Caifen Liu
4. Yuan Bai
5. Sen Pei
6. Dillon C. Adam
7. Lin Wang
8. Peng Wu
9. Eric H. Y. Lau
10. Benjamin J. Cowling

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Access to healthcare as an important moderating variable for understanding geography of immunity levels for COVID-19 - preliminary insights from Poland

1. Andrzej Jarynowski
2. Vitaly Belik

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COVID-19 cluster size and transmission rates in schools from crowdsourced case reports

1. Paul Tupper
2. Shraddha Pai
3. COVID Schools Canada
4. Caroline Colijn

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  Evaluation Summary:

  This paper is the first to characterize overdispersion of COVID-19 spread in schools using crowdsourcing . It has the potential to serve as a useful platform for assessing preventative measures in schools but needs more clarity regarding the sensitivity of the approach to the completeness of input data, as evidence by different model conclusions when sparse data from the US is used as an input as opposed to the more detailed Canadian data.

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Surveillance of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness: a real-time case–control study in southern Sweden

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

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Unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 on life expectancy across urban areas in Chile: a cross-sectional demographic study

1. Gonzalo Mena
2. José Manuel Aburto

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Deviations in Predicted COVID-19 cases in the US during early months of 2021 relate to rise in B.1.526 and its family of variants

1. P. Nandakishore
2. M. Liu
3. Prakash R.
4. S. Gourneni
5. R. Sukumaran
6. J.M. Berman
7. S. Iyer
8. C. Glorioso

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Mortality trends and length of stays among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Ontario and Québec (Canada): a population-based cohort study of the first three epidemic waves

1. Yiqing Xia
2. Huiting Ma
3. David L Buckeridge
4. Marc Brisson
5. Beate Sander
6. Adrienne Chan
7. Aman Verma
8. Iris Ganser
9. Nadine Kronfli
10. Sharmistha Mishra
11. Mathieu Maheu-Giroux

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