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EDITORIALS
Data sharing during the novel coronavirus public health emergency of international concern
- Vasee Moorthy, Ana Maria Henao Restrepo, Marie-Pierre Preziosi, & Soumya Swaminathan
Posted: 31 January 2020
Medical certification of cause of death for COVID-19
- Chalapati Rao
Posted: 9 April 2020
RESEARCH
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak trends in
mainland China: a joinpoint regression analysis of the outbreak data
from January 10 to February 11, 2020
- Syed Mahfuz Al Hasan, Jennifer Saulam, Kanae Kanda & Tomohiro Hirao
Posted: 18 February 2020
Variant analysis of COVID-19 genomes
- T. Koyama, D. Platt & L. Parida
Posted: 24 February 2020
Effectiveness of control strategies for Coronavirus Disease 2019: a SEIR dynamic modeling study
- Jinhua Pan, Ye Yao, Zhixi Liu, Mengying Li, Ying Wang, Weizhen Dong, Haidong Kan & Weibing Wang
Posted: 27 February 2020
A familial cluster of COVID-19 indicating virus can be transmitted by asymptomatic carriers
- Shuxiang Zhang, Jianrong Na, Wei Zhou, Bofei Liu, Wei Yang, Pan Zhou,
Xiaoqi Wang, Xiwei Zheng, Xiangyuan Cao & Xiaofang Gao
Posted: 28 February 2020
A simple model to assess Wuhan lock-down effect and region efforts during COVID-19 epidemic in China Mainland
- Zheming Yuan, Yi Xiao, Zhijun Dai, Jianjun Huang & Yuan Chen
Posted: 2 March 2020
A Bayesian estimate of the underreporting rate for COVID-19 based on the experience of the Diamond Princess cruise ship
- Stuart Gilmour, Daisuke Yoneoka, Yijing Wang, Bibha Dhungel, Jinghua Li, Zhicheng Du & Yuantao Hao
Posted: 12 March 2020
Epidemic situation and forecasting of COVID-19 in and outside China
- Yubei Huang, Lei Yang, Hongji Dai, Fei Tian & Kexin Chen
Posted: 16 March 2020
Working condition and health status of 6,317 front line
public health workers during the COVID-19 epidemic across 5 provinces in
China: a cross-sectional study
- Jinghua Li, Jingdong Xu, Huan Zhou, Hua You, Xiaohui Wang, Yan Li, et al.
Posted: 16 March 2020
Evidence of accessing antenatal care information via social media platforms supports mental wellbeing in COVID-19 epidemic
- Hong Jiang, Longmei Jin, Xu Qian, Xu Xiong, Xuena La, Weiyi Chen,
Xiaoguang Yang, Fengyun Yang, Xinwen Zhang, Nazhakaiti Abudukelim,
Xingying Li1, Zhenyu Xie, Xiaoling Zhu, Xiaohua Zhang, Lifeng Zhang, Li
Wang, Lingling Li & Mu Li.
Posted: 18 March 2020
Impact of travel restrictions on importation of novel coronavirus infection: An effective distance approach
- Shoi Shi, Shiori Tanaka, Ryo Ueno, Stuart Gilmour, Yuta Tanoue,
Takayuki Kawashima, Shuhei Nomura, Hiroaki Miyata, Daisuke Yoneoka
Posted: 18 March 2020
CoronaTracker: World-wide COVID-19 Outbreak Data Analysis and Prediction
- Fairoza Amira Binti Hamzah, Cher Han Lau, Hafeez Nazri, Dominic
Vincent Ligot, Guanhua Lee, Cheng Liang Tan, Mohammad Khursani Bin Mohd
Shaib, Ummi Hasanah Binti Zaidon, Adina Binti Abdullah, Ming Hong Chung,
Chin Hwee Ong, Pei Ying Chew and Roland Emmanuel Salunga
Posted: 19 March 2020
Active quarantine measures are the primary means to reduce the fatality rate of COVID-19
- Zhitian Wang, Tianyu He, Linhai Zhu, Hongxu Sheng, Sha Huang & Jian Hu
Posted: 20 March 2020
Workplace safety and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: survey of employees
- Eliza Lai-y Wong, Kin-fai Ho, Samuel Yeung-shan Wong, Annie Wai-ling Cheung & Eng-kiong Yeoh.
Posted: 20 March 2020
Identification of novel compounds against three targets of
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus by combined virtual screening and supervised
machine learning
- Onat Kadioglu, Mohamed Saeed, Henry Johannes Greten & Thomas Efferth.
Posted: 21 March 2020
COVID-19 outbreak in Algeria: A mathematical Model to predict cumulative cases
- Mohamed Hamidouche
Posted: 25 March 2020
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice toward the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak: A Population-Based Survey in Iran
- Amirhossein Erfani, Reza Shahriarirad, Keivan Ranjbar, Alireza Mirahmadizadeh & Mohsen Moghadami
Posted: 30 March 2020
Forecasting hospitalization and ICU rates of the COVID-19 outbreak: an efficient SEIR model
- Jan-Diederik van Wees, Sander Osinga, Martijn van der Kuip, Michael
Tanck, Maurice Hanegraaf, Maarten Pluymaekers, Olwijn Leeuwenburgh,
Lonneke van Bijsterveldt, Jaap Zindler & Marceline Tutu van Furth
Posted: 30 March 2020
The value of WeChat as a source of information on the COVID-19 in China
- Xin Chen, Xi Zhou, Huan Li, Jinlan Li & Hua Jiang
Posted: 30 March 2020
Lessons drawn from China and South Korea for managing COVID-19 epidemic: insights from a comparative modeling study
- Biao Tang, Fan Xia, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Zachary McCarthy, Xia Wang,
Sha He, Xiaodan Sun, Sanyi Tang, Yanni Xiao & Jianhong Wu
Posted: 1 April 2020
Pooled-sample analysis strategies for COVID-19 mass testing: a simulation study
- Andreas Deckert, Till Bärnighausen & Nicholas Kyei
Posted: 2 April 2020
Comprehensive Community Epidemic Prevention and Control
Models to Repel COVID-19 Pandemic-Grid-based management and digital
response Experience from Four Provinces of China
- Nianshi Wang, Ye Li, Zhixin Fan, Meiyan Ma, Baoguo Shi, Wanxin Tian,
Qi Xia, Xiyu Zhang, Qunhong Wu, Tao Sun, Mingli Jiao & Linghan Shan
Posted: 6 April 2020
Impact of lockdown on COVID-19 incidence and mortality in China: an interrupted time series study
- Alexandre Medeiros de Figueiredo, Antonio Daponte Codina, Daniela
Cristina Moreira Marculino Figueiredo, Marc Saez & Andrés Cabrera
León
Posted: 6 April 2020
Confronting COVID-19: Surging critical care capacity in Italy
- Jose M Rodriguez-Llanes, Rafael Castro Delgado, Morten Gram Pedersen, Pedro Arcos González, Matteo Meneghini
Posted: 6 April 2020
Faster de novo mutation of SARS-CoV-2 in shipboard quarantine
- Ting-Yu Yeh & Gregory P. Contreras
Posted: 6 April 2020
Epidemiological Characteristics of COVID-19 Ongoing Epidemic in Iraq
- Abdul-Basset A. Al-Hussein & Fadihl Rahma Tahir
Posted: 6 April 2020
Does the health system’s response matter to cope with the COVID-19 outbreak? Recent evidence from South Korea
- Kyung-Bok Son, Tae-Jin Lee & Seung-sik Hwang
Posted: 7 April 2020
Projection of cumulative coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case growth with a hierarchical logistic model
-Levente Kriston
Posted: 7 April 2020
A time-dependent SEIR model to analyse the evolution of the SARS-covid-2 epidemic outbreak in Portugal
-Pedro Teles
Posted: 7 April 2020
The Impact of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 Outbreak on Chinese Residents’ Mental Health
- Xiaoxv Yin, Jing Wang, Jie Feng, Zhenyuan Chen, Nan Jiang, Jianxiong
Wu, Shijiao Yan, Hui Li, Chuanzhu Lv, Zuxun Lu & Yanhong Gong
Posted: 8 April 2020
Observation Wards and Control of the Transmission
of COVID-19 in Wuhan
- Juan Li, Pei Yuan, Jane Heffernan, Tingting Zheng, Nick Ogden, Beate
Sander, Jun Li, Qi Li, Jacques Bélair, Jude Dzevela Kong, Elena Aruffo,
Yi Tan, Zhen Jin, Yong Yu, Meng Fan, Jingan Cui, Zhidong Teng &
Huaiping Zhu
Posted: 9 April 2020
The Modeling of the capacity of the Moroccan Health Care
System in the context of COVID-19: the relevance of the logistic
approach
- Mohamed Merzouki, Mostafa Bentahir, Mohamed Najimi, Fatiha Chigr & Jean-Luc Gala
Posted: 9 April 2020
A Missense Mutation in SARS-CoV-2 Potentially Differentiates Between Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Cases
- Alejandro Lopez-Rincon, Alberto Tonda, Lucero Mendoza-Maldonado, Eric Claassen, Johan Garssen, Aletta D. Kraneveld
Posted: 9 April 2020
Development of standardized specimens with known
concentrations for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Realtime-RT-PCR testing validation
- Phan Trong Lan, Hoang Quoc Cuong, Hoang Thuy Linh, Nguyen Trung Hieu,
Nguyen Hoang Anh, Tran Ton, Tran Cat Dong, Vu Thanh Thao, Do Thi Hong
Tuoi, Nguyen Duc Tuan, Huynh Thi Kim Loan, Nguyen Thanh Long, Cao Minh
Thang, Nguyen Duc Hai & Nguyen Thi Thanh Thao
Posted: 20 April 2020
COVID-19 related knowledge, attitudes, practices and needs of households in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
- Karen Austrian, Jessie Pinchoff, James B. Tidwell, Corinne White,
Timothy Abuya, Beth Kangwana, Rhoune Ochako, John Wanyungu, Eva Muluve,
Faith Mbushi, Daniel Mwanga, Mercy Nzioki & Thoai D Ngo
Posted: 20 April 2020
Here, we cannot practice what is preached’: early qualitative
learning from community perspectives on Zimbabwe’s response to COVID-19
- Mackworth-Young CRS, Chingono R, Mavodza C, McHugh G, Tembo M, Dziva
Chikwari C, Weiss HA, Rusakaniko S, Ruzario S, Bernays S & Ferrand
RA
Posted: 20 April 2020
Use of simulated annealing to determine the operational
parameters of the SEIR model for the coronavirus for various
jurisdictions
- Leslie Mulder
Posted: 20 April 2020
Estimating infection prevalence in Wuhan City, China from repatriation flight data
- Hayley A Thompson, Natsuko Imai, Amy B Dighe, Kylie Ainslie, Marc
Baguelin, Sangeeta Bhatia, Samir Bhatt, Adhiratha Boonyasiri, Olivia
Boyd, Nicholas F Brazeau, Lorenzo Cattarino, Laura V Cooper, Helen
Coupland, Zulma Cucunuba, Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg, Bimandra Djaafara,
Ilaria Dorigatti, Sabine Leonore van Elsland, Richard FitzJohn, Han Fu,
Katy Gaythorpe, Will Green, Timothy Hallett, Arran Hamlet, David Haw,
Sarah Hayes, Wes Hinsley, Benjamin Jeffrey, Edward Knock, Daniel J
Laydon, John Lees, Tara D Mangal, Thomas Mellan, Swapnil Mishra, Andria
Mousa, Gemma Nedjati-Gilani, Pierre Nouvellet, Lucy Okell, Kris V Parag,
Manon Ragonnet-Cronin, Steven Riley, H. Juliette T Unwin, Robert
Verity, Michaela Vollmer, Erik Volz, Patrick G T Walker, Caroline
Walters, Haowei Wang, Yuanrong Wang, Oliver J Watson, Charles Whittaker,
Lilith K Whittles, Peter Winskill, Xiaoyue Xi, Christl A Donnelly &
Neil M Ferguson
Posted: 23 April 2020
Economic globalization and the COVID-19 pandemic: global spread and inequalities
- Jeanne Ludovic, Sebastien Bourdin, Fabien Nadou and Gabriel Noiret
Posted: 23 April 2020
SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding characteristics and potential evidence for the priority of faecal specimen testing in diagnosis
- Chen Yuan, Hongling Wang, Kefeng Li, An Tang, Yaxin Dai, Bing Wu, Hui
Zhang, Jiabei Chen, Jienan Liu, Wenjie Wu, Songye Gu, Hai Wang, Haodi
Xu, Mingyu Wu, Menglu Yu, Yuchao Wang, Xinwei Yu, Jialu He, Shelan Liu,
Yongli Zhang, Zhendong Tong & Jianbo Yan
Posted: 23 April 2020
Specific Primer Design for Accurate Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Using Deep Learning
- Alejandro Lopez-Rinco1, Alberto Tonda, Lucero Mendoza-Maldonado,
Daphne G.J.C. Mulders, Richard Molenkamp, Eric Claassen, Johan Garssen
& Aletta D. Kraneveld
Posted: 27 April 2020
Impact of government-imposed social distancing measures on COVID-19 morbidity and mortality around the world
- Nicole K. Le, Alexander V. Le, Joel P. Brooks, Sumun Khetpal, Daniel Liauw, Ricardo Izurieta & Miguel Reina Ortiz
Posted: 30 April 2020
Preliminary Estimation of the Basic Reproduction Number of SARS-CoV-2 in the Middle East
- Bootan Rahman, Imad A. Aziz, Fuad W. Khdhr & Dler FD Mahmood
Posted: 1 May 2020
Effectivity of a Programme for the Control & Prevention
of COVID-19 Healthcare-Associated Infections in a Spanish Academic
Hospital
- Paula Gras-Valentí, Juan G. Mora-Muriel, Pablo Chico-Sánchez,
Natividad Algado-Sellés, Victor M. Soler-Molina, María
Hernández-Maldonado, Ana Lameiras-Acevedo, Natali Jimenez Sepulveda,
Isel Gomez Sotero, Cesar Villanueva-Ruiz, Julio Barrenengoa-Sañudo,
Marina Fuster-Pérez, Sandra Cánovas-Javega, Patricia Cerezo-Milan,
Miranda Monerris Palmer, Pere Llorens, Esperanza Merino-Lucas, Juan C.
Rodriguez-Diaz, Joan Gil-Carbonell, Rosario Sánchez-Martínez, Rogelio
Pastor-Cesteros, Luis Mena-Esquivias, Maria Galiana Ivars, Francisco
Jaime-Sánchez, Cesar Margarit-Ferri, Javier Gonzalez-de Dios, German
Lloret-Ferrándiz, Miguel A. García-Alonso, Pablo Sánchez-Vela & José
Sánchez-Payá
Posted: 4 May 2020
Prevalence of COVID-19 symptoms, risk factors, and health
behaviors in host and refugee communities in Cox’s Bazar: a
representative panel study
- Paula Lopez-Pena, C. Austin Davis, A. Mushfiq Mobarak & Shabib Raihan
Posted: 11 May 2020
Evaluating the Control Strategies and Measures for COVID-19 Epidemic in Mainland China: A City-level Observational Study
- Yuanqing Ye, Xiaolin Xu, Sisi Wang, Sicong Wang, Xin Xu, Changzheng
Yuan, Shu Li, Shuyin Cao, Chen Chen, Kejia Hu, Hao Lei, Hui Zhu, Xifeng
Wua
Posted: 11 May 2020
COVID-19 in Great Britain: epidemiological and clinical
characteristics of the first few hundred (FF100) cases: a descriptive
case series and case control analysis
- Nicola L Boddington, Andre Charlett, Suzanne Elgohari, Jemma L Walker,
Helen I McDonald, Chloe Byers, Laura Coughlan, Tatiana Garcia
Vilaplana, Rosie Whillock, Mary Sinnathamby, Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos,
Louise Letley, Pauline MacDonald, Roberto Vivancos, Obaghe Edeghere,
Joseph Shingleton, Emma Bennett, Daniel J Grint, Helen Strongman,
Kathryn E Mansfield, Christopher Rentsch, Caroline Minassian, Ian J
Douglas, Rohini Mathur, Maria Peppa, Simon Cottrell, Jim McMenamin,
Maria Zambon, Mary Ramsay, Gavin Dabrera, Vanessa Saliba & Jamie
Lopez Bernal
Posted: 22 May 2020
Do the clinical management guidelines for Covid-19 in African
Countries reflect the African quality palliative care standards? A
rapid review
- Oladayo A Afolabi, Mary Abboah-Offei, Eve Namisango, Emeka Chukwusa,
Adejoke O. Oluyase, Emmanuel BK Luyirika, Richard Harding & Kennedy
Nkhoma
Posted: 26 May 2020
Mobile application data provides a proxy for the real-time assessment of COVID-19 impact on global surgical case volumes
- Vikas N. O'Reilly-Shah, Wil Van Cleve, Dustin R. Long, Vanessa Moll,
Faye M. Evans, Jacob E. Sunshine, Nicholas J. Kassebauma, Ewen M
Harrison & Craig S. Jabaley
Posted: 26 May 2020
COVID-19 mortality is associated with preexisting disease burden: A cross-country analysis
- Li-Lin Liang, Ching-Hung Tseng, Hsiu J Ho & Chun-Ying Wu
Posted: 1 June 2020
Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic-related community
quarantine on overall and cause-specific mortality in Jiangsu Province,
China
- Hao Yu, Pengfei Luo, Ran Tao, Renqiang Han, Jinyi Zhou & Ming Wu
Posted: 1 July 2020
Safeguarding Healthcare Workers Amidst COVID-19: A Surveillance Programme in a Teaching Hospital in Malaysia
- Kim Sui Wan, Peter Seah Keng Tok, Kishwen Kanna Yoga Ratnam, Nuraini
Aziz, Marzuki Isahak, Rafdzah Ahmad Zaki, Nik Daliana Nik Farid, Noran
Naqiah Hairi, Sanjay Rampal, Chiu-Wan Ng, Mohd Fauzy Samsudin, Vinura
Venugopal, Mohammad Asyraf, Narisa Hatun Damanhuri, Sanpagavalli
Doraimuthu, Catherine Thamarai Arumugam, Thaneswaran Marthammuthu,
Fathhullah Azmie Nawawi, Faiz Baharudin, Diane Woei Quan Chong, Vivek
Jason Jayaraj, Venna Magarita Santhanan, Sasheela Ponnampalavanar,
Nazirah Hasnan, Adeeba Kamarulzaman & Mas Ayu Said
Posted: 5 August 2020
The implementation of SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance in South Africa
- Kim Nokukhanya Msomi, Kerusha Govender, Oluwakemi Laguda-Akingba, Jennifer Giandhari, Sureshnee Pillay, Eduan Wilkinson Houriiyah Tegally, NGS-SA, Richard J Lessells, Koleka Mlisana & Tulio de Oliveira
Posted: 24 May 2021