Epidemiology

COVID-19 pandemic impact on preterm birth and stillbirth rates associated with socioeconomic disparities: A quasi-experimental study

1. Laila Aboulatta
2. Kaarina Kowalec
3. Christine Leong
4. Joseph Delaney
5. Jamie Falk
6. Silvia Alessi-Severini
7. Dan Chateau
8. Qier Tan
9. Katherine Kearns
10. Christina Raimondi
11. Alekhya Lavu
12. Lara Haidar
13. Christine Vaccaro
14. Sherif Eltonsy

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SARS-CoV-2 NSP3, NSP4 and NSP6 mutations and Epistasis during the pandemic in the world: Evolutionary Trends and Natural Selections in Six Continents

1. Haniyeh fooladinezhad
2. Maryamsadat Shahidi
3. Mohammadamin Mahmanzar
4. Bahar Mahdavi
5. Samaneh Tokhanbigli
6. Mahsa Mollapour Sisakht
7. Bahman Moradi
8. Mohamad Reza Ganjalikhany
9. Karim Rahimian
10. Mazdak Ganjalikhani-Hakemi

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Toward More Realistic Social Distancing Policies via Advanced Feedback Control

1. Cédric Join
2. Alberto d’Onofrio
3. Michel Fliess

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Initial protection against SARS-CoV-2 omicron lineage infection in children and adolescents by BNT162b2 in Israel: an observational study

1. Ofra Amir
2. Yair Goldberg
3. Micha Mandel
4. Yinon M Bar-On
5. Omri Bodenheimer
6. Laurence Freedman
7. Nachman Ash
8. Sharon Alroy-Preis
9. Amit Huppert
10. Ron Milo

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Population-based sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals how current population dynamics are shaped by past epidemics

1. Irving Cancino-Muñoz
2. Mariana G López
3. Manuela Torres-Puente
4. Luis M Villamayor
5. Rafael Borrás
6. María Borrás-Máñez
7. Montserrat Bosque
8. Juan J Camarena
9. Caroline Colijn
10. Ester Colomer-Roig
11. Javier Colomina
12. Isabel Escribano
13. Oscar Esparcia-Rodríguez
14. Francisco García-García
15. Ana Gil-Brusola
16. Concepción Gimeno
17. Adelina Gimeno-Gascón
18. Bárbara Gomila-Sard
19. Damiana Gónzales-Granda
20. Nieves Gonzalo-Jiménez
21. María Remedios Guna-Serrano
22. José Luis López-Hontangas
23. Coral Martín-González
24. Rosario Moreno-Muñoz
25. David Navarro
26. María Navarro
27. Nieves Orta
28. Elvira Pérez
29. Josep Prat
30. Juan Carlos Rodríguez
31. Ma Montserrat Ruiz-García
32. Hermelinda Vanaclocha
33. Valencia Region Tuberculosis Working Group
34. Iñaki Comas

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  Evaluation Summary:

  This work presents in-depth epidemiologic and phylogenetic analyses of tuberculosis cases across Valencia, Spain and comparator low-burden (Oxfordshire, UK) and high-burden (Karonga, Malawi) regions. Findings reveal that the "low burden" observed in Valencia is not in fact reflective of low transmission in this setting, with detected lineages likely to have circulated locally over the course of decades and to have been transmitted in the community.

  (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 #1 and Reviewer #2 agreed to share their name with the authors.)

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Omicron and vaccines: An analysis on the decline in COVID-19 mortality

1. Blas J. Larrauri
2. Alejandro Malbrán
3. José A. Larrauri

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Comparative effectiveness of sotrovimab and molnupiravir for prevention of severe COVID-19 outcomes in non-hospitalised patients: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform

1. Bang Zheng
2. Amelia CA Green
3. John Tazare
4. Helen J Curtis
5. Louis Fisher
6. Linda Nab
7. Anna Schultze
8. Viyaasan Mahalingasivam
9. Edward PK Parker
10. William J Hulme
11. Sebastian CJ Bacon
12. Nicholas J DeVito
13. Christopher Bates
14. David Evans
15. Peter Inglesby
16. Henry Drysdale
17. Simon Davy
18. Jonathan Cockburn
19. Caroline E Morton
20. George Hickman
21. Tom Ward
22. Rebecca M Smith
23. John Parry
24. Frank Hester
25. Sam Harper
26. Amir Mehrkar
27. Rosalind M Eggo
28. Alex J Walker
29. Stephen JW Evans
30. Ian J Douglas
31. Brian MacKenna
32. Ben Goldacre
33. Laurie A Tomlinson

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Antibody levels following vaccination against SARS-CoV-2: associations with post-vaccination infection and risk factors in two UK longitudinal studies

1. Nathan J Cheetham
2. Milla Kibble
3. Andrew Wong
4. Richard J Silverwood
5. Anika Knuppel
6. Dylan M Williams
7. Olivia KL Hamilton
8. Paul H Lee
9. Charis Bridger Staatz
10. Giorgio Di Gessa
11. Jingmin Zhu
12. Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi
13. George B Ploubidis
14. Ellen J Thompson
15. Ruth CE Bowyer
16. Xinyuan Zhang
17. Golboo Abbasian
18. Maria Paz Garcia
19. Deborah Hart
20. Jeffrey Seow
21. Carl Graham
22. Neophytos Kouphou
23. Sam Acors
24. Michael H Malim
25. Ruth E Mitchell
26. Kate Northstone
27. Daniel Major-Smith
28. Sarah Matthews
29. Thomas Breeze
30. Michael Crawford
31. Lynn Molloy
32. Alex SF Kwong
33. Katie Doores
34. Nishi Chaturvedi
35. Emma L Duncan
36. Nicholas J Timpson
37. Claire J Steves

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  eLife assessment

  The authors collected and analyzed blood samples from >9,000 participants from two cross-sectional cohort studies in the UK, the ALSPAC cohort and the TwinsUK cohort. They measured anti-Nucleocapsid and anti-Spike antibodies using the collected blood samples. They investigated the variation in antibody levels and risk factors for lower antibody levels following each round of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. They identify that following the third vaccination, risk factors associated with low antibody response after the first vaccination are less likely to lead to sub-protective levels. While this finding is of potential importance, the presentation of the data is diffuse and not focused at times, and more discussion is needed to highlight its relevance to the current stage of the pandemic.

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SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern (VOC) Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Omicron coincident with consecutive pandemic waves in Pakistan

1. Asghar Nasir
2. Uzma Bashir Aamir
3. Akbar Kanji
4. Azra Samreen
5. Zeeshan Ansar
6. Najia K. Ghanchi
7. Ali Raza Bukhari
8. Kiran Iqbal Masood
9. Nazneen Islam
10. Samina Ghani
11. M. Asif Syed
12. Mansoor Wassan
13. Syed Faisal Mahmood
14. Zahra Hasan

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Covid-19 Vaccine Acceptance Among People Incarcerated in Connecticut State Jails

1. Margaret L. Lind
2. Byron S. Kennedy
3. Murilo Dorion Nieto
4. Amy J. Houde
5. Peri Sosensky
6. Ryan Borg
7. Derek A.T. Cummings
8. Albert I. Ko
9. Robert P. Richeson

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