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 review
2024
A retrospective cohort study of Paxlovid efficacy depending on treatment time in hospitalized COVID-19 patients
Du Z, Wang L, Bai Y, Liu Y, Lau E, Galvani A, Krug R, Cowling B, Meyers L. A retrospective cohort study of Paxlovid efficacy depending on treatment time in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. ELife 2024, 13: e89801. PMID: 38622989, PMCID: PMC11078542, DOI: 10.7554/elife.89801.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsViral sheddingHospitalized COVID-19 patientsSARS-CoV-2Retrospective cohort studyRisk of reboundCOVID-19 patientsViral reboundTime of treatmentTreated patientsPreventing severe illnessEarly treatmentCohort studyHospitalized patientsPatientsViral replicationReducing infectiousnessSevere illnessTimely treatmentViral dynamicsHealth record dataTreatmentTransmission riskTransmission of SARS-CoV-2EfficacySymptoms
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