Evaluated articles

Excess COVID-19-associated deaths among the unvaccinated population ≥18 years old in the United States, May 30 – December 4, 2021

1. Katherine M. Jia
2. William P. Hanage
3. Marc Lipsitch
4. David L. Swerdlow

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ICD-10 based syndromic surveillance enables robust estimation of burden of severe COVID-19 requiring hospitalization and intensive care treatment

1. Kristin Tolksdorf
2. Walter Haas
3. Ekkehard Schuler
4. Lothar H. Wieler
5. Julia Schilling
6. Osamah Hamouda
7. Michaela Diercke
8. Silke Buda

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SARS-CoV-2 transmission, persistence of immunity, and estimates of Omicron’s impact in South African population cohorts

1. Kaiyuan Sun
2. Stefano Tempia
3. Jackie Kleynhans
4. Anne von Gottberg
5. Meredith L. McMorrow
6. Nicole Wolter
7. Jinal N. Bhiman
8. Jocelyn Moyes
9. Mignon du Plessis
10. Maimuna Carrim
11. Amelia Buys
12. Neil A. Martinson
13. Kathleen Kahn
14. Stephen Tollman
15. Limakatso Lebina
16. Floidy Wafawanaka
17. Jacques D. du Toit
18. Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé
19. Thulisa Mkhencele
20. Cécile Viboud
21. Cheryl Cohen

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Changing Dynamics of COVID-19 Deaths During the SARS-CoV2 B.1.617.2 (Delta Variant) Outbreak in England and Wales: Reduced COVID-19 Deaths Among the Care Home Residents

1. Venkata R. Emani
2. Raghunath Reddy
3. Shaila R. Emani
4. Kartik K. Goswami
5. Kailash R. Maddula
6. Nikhila K. Reddy
7. Abirath S. Nakka
8. Nidhi K. Reddy
9. Dheeraj Nandanoor
10. Sanjeev Goswami

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Genomic profile of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant and its correlation with disease severity in Rajasthan

1. Ravi P. Sharma
2. Swati Gautam
3. Pratibha Sharma
4. Ruchi Singh
5. Himanshu Sharma
6. Dinesh Parsoya
7. Farah Deeba
8. Neha Bhomia
9. Nita Pal
10. Varsha Potdar
11. Pragya D. Yadav
12. Nivedita Gupta
13. Sudhir Bhandari
14. Abhinendra Kumar
15. Yash Joshi
16. Priyanka Pandit
17. Bharti Malhotra

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Evaluation of the specificity and accuracy of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen self-tests compared to RT-PCR from 1015 asymptomatic volunteers

1. Thomas Iftner
2. Angelika Iftner
3. Diana Pohle
4. Peter Martus

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Neonatal and Maternal Outcome of COVID-19 positive women in Sri Lanka: Secondary Analysis using National COVID-19 Positive Pregnant Women Surveillance

1. Malith Kumarasinghe
2. Kaushalya Kasturiaratchi
3. Hemali Jayakody
4. Shakira Irfaan
5. Wasana Samarasinghe
6. Harendra Dassanayake
7. Sanjeeva Godakandage
8. Chithramalee de Silva

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Food intake patterns, social determinants and emotions during COVID-19 confinement

1. Maritza Rios
2. Jon Subinas
3. Celestina Delgado
4. Eliecer Torres
5. Amador Goodridge
6. Idalina Cubilla-Batista

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine Boosting in Previously Infected or Vaccinated Individuals

1. Nabin K Shrestha
2. Priyanka Shrestha
3. Patrick C Burke
4. Amy S Nowacki
5. Paul Terpeluk
6. Steven M Gordon

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Adequacy of Serial Self-performed SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Detection Testing for Longitudinal Mass Screening in the Workplace

1. Jesse Papenburg
2. Jonathon R. Campbell
3. Chelsea Caya
4. Cynthia Dion
5. Rachel Corsini
6. Matthew P. Cheng
7. Dick Menzies
8. Cédric P. Yansouni

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Multiple sclerosis disease-modifying therapies and COVID-19 vaccines: a practical review and meta-analysis

1. Masoud Etemadifar
2. Hosein Nouri
3. Maristella Pitzalis
4. Maria Laura Idda
5. Mehri Salari
6. Mahshid Baratian
7. Sepide Mahdavi
8. Amir Parsa Abhari
9. Nahad Sedaghat

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Correlation Between Postvaccination Anti-Spike Antibody Titers and Protection Against Breakthrough Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection: A Population-Based Longitudinal Study

1. Giulia Vivaldi
2. David A Jolliffe
3. Sian Faustini
4. Adrian M Shields
5. Hayley Holt
6. Natalia Perdek
7. Mohammad Talaei
8. Florence Tydeman
9. Emma S Chambers
10. Weigang Cai
11. Wenhao Li
12. Joseph M Gibbons
13. Corinna Pade
14. Áine McKnight
15. Seif O Shaheen
16. Alex G Richter
17. Adrian R Martineau

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Effectiveness of rapid SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing in supporting infection control for hospital-onset COVID-19 infection: Multicentre, prospective study

1. Oliver Stirrup
2. James Blackstone
3. Fiona Mapp
4. Alyson MacNeil
5. Monica Panca
6. Alison Holmes
7. Nicholas Machin
8. Gee Yen Shin
9. Tabitha Mahungu
10. Kordo Saeed
11. Tranprit Saluja
12. Yusri Taha
13. Nikunj Mahida
14. Cassie Pope
15. Anu Chawla
16. Maria-Teresa Cutino-Moguel
17. Asif Tamuri
18. Rachel Williams
19. Alistair Darby
20. David L Robertson
21. Flavia Flaviani
22. Eleni Nastouli
23. Samuel Robson
24. Darren Smith
25. Matthew Loose
26. Kenneth Laing
27. Irene Monahan
28. Beatrix Kele
29. Sam Haldenby
30. Ryan George
31. Matthew Bashton
32. Adam A Witney
33. Matthew Byott
34. Francesc Coll
35. Michael Chapman
36. Sharon J Peacock
37. COG-UK HOCI Investigators
38. The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium
39. Joseph Hughes
40. Gaia Nebbia
41. David G Partridge
42. Matthew Parker
43. James Richard Price
44. Christine Peters
45. Sunando Roy
46. Luke B Snell
47. Thushan I de Silva
48. Emma Thomson
49. Paul Flowers
50. Andrew Copas
51. Judith Breuer

• Curated by eLife

  Evaluation Summary:

  This is a very extensive evaluation of the impact of rapid availability of whole-gemome sequencing results from SARS-CoV2 to inform infection control policies in hospital settings. It, most likely, is the largest analysis of its kind, clearly demonstrating the possibilities and challenges with this innovative technique.

  (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 #3 agreed to share their name with the authors.)

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Underdispersion: A Statistical Anomaly in Reported Covid Data

1. Dmitry Kobak

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic and anti-pandemic measures on tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, HIV/AIDS and malaria – a systematic review

1. Barbora Kessel
2. Torben Heinsohn
3. Jördis J Ott
4. Jutta Wolff
5. Max J Hassenstein
6. Berit Lange

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Binding Interactions between RBD of Spike-Protein and Human ACE2 in Omicron variant

1. Bahaa Jawad
2. Puja Adhikari
3. Rudolf Podgornik
4. Wai-Yim Ching

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Lyophilized mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccines with long-term stability and high antigenicity against SARS-CoV-2

1. Liangxia Ai
2. Yafei Li
3. Li Zhou
4. Wenrong Yao
5. Hao Zhang
6. Zhaoyu Hu
7. Jinyu Han
8. Weijie Wang
9. Junmiao Wu
10. Pan Xu
11. Ruiyue Wang
12. Zhangyi Li
13. Zhouwang Li
14. Chengliang Wei
15. Jianqun Liang
16. Haobo Chen
17. Zhimiao Yang
18. Ming Guo
19. Zhixiang Huang
20. Xin Wang
21. Zhen Zhang
22. Wenjie Xiang
23. Dazheng Sun
24. Lianqiang Xu
25. Meiyan Huang
26. Bin Lv
27. Peiqi Peng
28. Shangfeng Zhang
29. Xuhao Ji
30. Huiyi Luo
31. Nanping Chen
32. Jianping Chen
33. Ke Lan
34. Yong Hu

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Engineering defensin α‐helix to produce high‐affinity SARS‐CoV ‐2 spike protein binding ligands

1. Leonardo Antônio Fernandes
2. Anderson Albino Gomes
3. Beatriz Gomes Guimarães
4. Maria de Lourdes Borba Magalhães
5. Partha Ray
6. Gustavo Felippe da Silva

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In Vitro Selection of Remdesivir-Resistant SARS-CoV-2 Demonstrates High Barrier to Resistance

1. Liva Checkmahomed
2. Julie Carbonneau
3. Venice Du Pont
4. Nicholas C. Riola
5. Jason K. Perry
6. Jiani Li
7. Bastien Paré
8. Shawn M. Simpson
9. Martin A. Smith
10. Danielle P. Porter
11. Guy Boivin

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Omicron (BA.1) and sub‐variants (BA.1.1, BA.2, and BA.3) of SARS‐CoV‐2 spike infectivity and pathogenicity: A comparative sequence and structural‐based computational assessment

1. Suresh Kumar
2. Kalimuthu Karuppanan
3. Gunasekaran Subramaniam

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