2025
Impact of disease severity, age, sex, comorbidity, and vaccination on secondary attack rates of SARS-CoV-2: a global systematic review and meta-analysis
Sumsuzzman D, Ye Y, Wang Z, Pandey A, Langley J, Galvani A, Moghadas S. Impact of disease severity, age, sex, comorbidity, and vaccination on secondary attack rates of SARS-CoV-2: a global systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Infectious Diseases 2025, 25: 215. PMID: 39948450, PMCID: PMC11827239, DOI: 10.1186/s12879-025-10610-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPopulation settingEffective public health strategiesConfidence intervalsImpact of disease severityModified Newcastle-Ottawa ScalePublic health strategiesHigher secondary attack rateRisk of biasNewcastle-Ottawa ScalePandemic responseGlobal systematic reviewRandom-effects modelFreeman-Tukey double arcsine transformationWeb of ScienceNo significant associationDrivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmissionHealth strategiesSecondary attack rateSARS-CoV-2Disease severityEffective pandemic responseTargeted interventionsDouble arcsine transformationOvid MEDLINESystematic reviewImpact of RSVpreF vaccination on reducing the burden of respiratory syncytial virus in infants and older adults
Du Z, Pandey A, Moghadas S, Bai Y, Wang L, Matrajt L, Singer B, Galvani A. Impact of RSVpreF vaccination on reducing the burden of respiratory syncytial virus in infants and older adults. Nature Medicine 2025, 31: 647-652. PMID: 39789324, PMCID: PMC11835734, DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03431-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRespiratory syncytial virusSyncytial virusRSV diseaseImpact of vaccinationBurden of respiratory syncytial virusVaccination of pregnant womenRSV-related mortalityProtein-based vaccinesVaccination of older adultsRSV vaccinePregnant womenSeasonal influenzaVaccine uptake ratesInfant hospitalizationClinical trialsPrefusion FHospital costsInfantsHealth burdenAdult immunizationVaccineOlder adultsHospitalEnhanced uptakeHigh-income countries
2024
Mortality and morbidity ramifications of proposed retractions in healthcare coverage for the United States
Pandey A, Fitzpatrick M, Singer B, Galvani A. Mortality and morbidity ramifications of proposed retractions in healthcare coverage for the United States. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2024, 121: e2321494121. PMID: 38648491, PMCID: PMC11066981, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2321494121.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2020
The implications of silent transmission for the control of COVID-19 outbreaks
Moghadas SM, Fitzpatrick MC, Sah P, Pandey A, Shoukat A, Singer BH, Galvani AP. The implications of silent transmission for the control of COVID-19 outbreaks. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2020, 117: 17513-17515. PMID: 32632012, PMCID: PMC7395516, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2008373117.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSilent infectionSymptomatic casesAsymptomatic transmissionSilent transmissionPopulation-wide restrictionsRisk of resurgenceRapid contact tracingRecent individual-level dataCoronavirus disease 2019Symptom onsetAsymptomatic proportionAsymptomatic infectionDisease 2019Majority of incidencesPresymptomatic stagePresymptomatic casesInfected individualsContact tracingInfectionFuture outbreaksCOVID-19 outbreakSocial distancing measuresOne-thirdMovement restrictionsDistancing measuresProsocial polio vaccination in Israel
Wells CR, Huppert A, Fitzpatrick MC, Pandey A, Velan B, Singer BH, Bauch CT, Galvani AP. Prosocial polio vaccination in Israel. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2020, 117: 13138-13144. PMID: 32457142, PMCID: PMC7293608, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1922746117.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsOral polio vaccineOPV campaignsPolio vaccineVaccination behaviorInactivated polio vaccineGreater vaccination coverageRisk of paralysisProsocial vaccinationVaccination coverageVaccine campaignPolio vaccinationVaccinationInsufficient vaccinationPoliomyelitis eradicationSurveillance programVaccineSporadic outbreaksIsrael MinistryPrimary objectiveProsocial natureParalysisDiseasePolio
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