Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

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1. Diagnostic TR-FRET assays for detection of antibodies in patient samples

   This article has 23 authors:

   1. Hong Yue
   2. Radosław P. Nowak
   3. Daan Overwijn
   4. N. Connor Payne
   5. Stephanie Fischinger
   6. Caroline Atyeo
   7. Evan C. Lam
   8. Kerri St. Denis
   9. Lauren K. Brais
   10. Yoshinobu Konishi
   11. Romanos Sklavenitis-Pistofidis
   12. Lindsey R. Baden
   13. Eric J. Nilles
   14. Elizabeth W. Karlson
   15. Xu G. Yu
   16. Jonathan Z. Li
   17. Ann E. Woolley
   18. Irene M. Ghobrial
   19. Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt
   20. Alejandro B. Balazs
   21. Galit Alter
   22. Ralph Mazitschek
   23. Eric S. Fischer

   Reviewed by ScreenIT, Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

2. The relationship between neighborhood poverty and COVID-19 mortality within racial/ethnic groups (Cook County, Illinois)

   This article has 2 authors:

   1. Justin M. Feldman
   2. Mary T. Bassett

   Reviewed by ScreenIT, Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

3. Evidence for increased breakthrough rates of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in BNT162b2-mRNA-vaccinated individuals

   This article has 29 authors:

   1. Talia Kustin
   2. Noam Harel
   3. Uriah Finkel
   4. Shay Perchik
   5. Sheri Harari
   6. Maayan Tahor
   7. Itamar Caspi
   8. Rachel Levy
   9. Michael Leshchinsky
   10. Shifra Ken Dror
   11. Galit Bergerzon
   12. Hala Gadban
   13. Faten Gadban
   14. Eti Eliassian
   15. Orit Shimron
   16. Loulou Saleh
   17. Haim Ben-Zvi
   18. Elena Keren Taraday
   19. Doron Amichay
   20. Anat Ben-Dor
   21. Dana Sagas
   22. Merav Strauss
   23. Yonat Shemer Avni
   24. Amit Huppert
   25. Eldad Kepten
   26. Ran D. Balicer
   27. Doron Netzer
   28. Shay Ben-Shachar
   29. Adi Stern

   Reviewed by NCRC, Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, ScreenIT

4. Assessment of physiological signs associated with COVID-19 measured using wearable devices

   This article has 3 authors:

   1. Aravind Natarajan
   2. Hao-Wei Su
   3. Conor Heneghan

   Reviewed by ScreenIT, Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

5. Histopathological assessments reveal retinal vascular changes, inflammation, and gliosis in patients with lethal COVID-19

   This article has 7 authors:

   1. Vijay K. Jidigam
   2. Rupesh Singh
   3. Julia C. Batoki
   4. Caroline Milliner
   5. Onkar B. Sawant
   6. Vera L. Bonilha
   7. Sujata Rao

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, ScreenIT

6. Firearm purchasing and firearm violence during the coronavirus pandemic in the United States: a cross-sectional study

   This article has 9 authors:

   1. Julia P. Schleimer
   2. Christopher D. McCort
   3. Aaron B. Shev
   4. Veronica A. Pear
   5. Elizabeth Tomsich
   6. Alaina De Biasi
   7. Shani Buggs
   8. Hannah S. Laqueur
   9. Garen J. Wintemute

   Reviewed by ScreenIT, Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

7. Preprinting the COVID-19 pandemic

   This article has 7 authors:

   1. Nicholas Fraser
   2. Liam Brierley
   3. Gautam Dey
   4. Jessica K Polka
   5. Máté Pálfy
   6. Federico Nanni
   7. Jonathon Alexis Coates

   Reviewed by ScreenIT, Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

8. Herd immunity thresholds for SARS-CoV-2 estimated from unfolding epidemics

   This article has 4 authors:

   1. Ricardo Aguas
   2. Guilherme Gonçalves
   3. Marcelo U. Ferreira
   4. M. Gabriela M. Gomes

   Reviewed by ScreenIT, Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

9. Estimating the minimum number of SARS-CoV-2 infected cases needed to detect viral RNA in wastewater: To what extent of the outbreak can surveillance of wastewater tell us?

   This article has 8 authors:

   1. Pei-Ying Hong
   2. Andri Taruna Rachmadi
   3. David Mantilla-Calderon
   4. Mohsen Alkahtani
   5. Yasir M. Bashawri
   6. Hamed Al Qarni
   7. Kathleen M. O'Reilly
   8. Jianqiang Zhou

   Reviewed by ScreenIT, Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

10. Phase transitions may explain why SARS-CoV-2 spreads so fast and why new variants are spreading faster

    This article has 4 authors:

    1. J.C. Phillips
    2. Marcelo A. Moret
    3. Gilney F. Zebende
    4. Carson C. Chow

    Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, ScreenIT