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Understanding how ‘overdispersion’ works is key to controlling Covid | Kyra Grantz and Justin Lessler
A small number of people and events are responsible for most virus transmission – that is why tracing them is so vital, say Kyra Grantz and Justin Lessler of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
STEMpowered 2020 | University of Florida Online
STEMpowered is an online conference for STEM faculty hosted by the University of Florida Online. Learn more about the future of STEM courses and how yours can be improved.
A systematic review of antibody mediated immunity to coronaviruses: kinetics, correlates of protection, and association with severity
Antibody mediated immunity to SARS-CoV-2 will affect future transmission and disease severity. This systematic review on antibody response to coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and endemic coronaviruses provides insights into...
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Derek Cummings
Our review of antibody immunity to coronaviruses out today. nature.com/articles/s4146… Hard work by @HuangAngkanaT BGarcia-Carreras @MHitchingsEpi @BingyiY @LeahKatzelnick @uf_idd @ba_borgert @susandoessci @marlos_coreno @isabelrodbar @BenjaminSolomo2 @JustinLessler @hsalje @apwez
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UF researchers devise new measures of flu immunity
July 23, 2020: Two UF researchers collaborated with international colleagues to measure how an individual’s immunity to flu is shaped over a lifetime of exposures to multiple influenza viruses. The team devised new metrics to analyze a person’s...
Community prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 virus in England during May 2020: REACT study
Background England has experienced one of the highest rates of confirmed COVID-19 mortality in the world. SARS-CoV-2 virus has circulated in hospitals, care homes and the community since January 2020. Our current epidemiological knowledge is largely...
Seroepidemiologic Study Designs for Determining SARS-COV-2 Transmission and Immunity
Serologic studies are crucial for clarifying dynamics of the coronavirus disease pandemic. Past work on serologic studies (e.g., during influenza pand...
Bryant: Why it matters that Goodell didn't say Kaepernick's name
In 2017, the NFL sent the message nationwide that kneeling was illegitimate. Now the league must rectify the damage it admits it has done.
Lack of cross-neutralization by SARS patient sera towards SARS-CoV-2
(2020). Lack of cross-neutralization by SARS patient sera towards SARS-CoV-2. Emerging Microbes & Infections: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 900-902.
Saliva is more sensitive for SARS-CoV-2 detection in COVID-19 patients than nasopharyngeal swabs
Rapid and accurate SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing is essential for controlling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The current gold standard for COVID-19 diagnosis is real-time RT-PCR detection of SARS-CoV-2 from nasopharyngeal swabs. Low sensitivity,...
A systematic review of antibody mediated immunity to coronaviruses: antibody kinetics, correlates of protection, and association of antibody responses with severity of disease
The duration and nature of immunity generated in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection is unknown. Many public health responses and modeled scenarios for COVID-19 outbreaks caused by SARS-CoV-2 assume that infection results in an immune response that...
The woman who discovered the first coronavirus
June Almeida was a pioneer of virus imaging who was largely forgotten until the current outbreak.
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Derek Cummings
Nice article by @BBCNews about Dr. June Almeida- who discovered the first coronavirus bbc.com/news/uk-scotla… 1/2
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A serological assay to detect SARS-CoV-2 seroconversion in humans
Introduction: SARS-Cov-2 (severe acute respiratory disease coronavirus 2), which causes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID19) was first detected in China in late 2019 and has since then caused a global pandemic. While molecular assays to directly...
Immune status alters the probability of apparent illness due to dengue virus infection: Evidence from a pooled analysis across multiple cohort and cluster studies
Author summary Dengue disease severity is known to vary widely from the very severe to asymptomatic. There is a wide range of estimates of how many infections result in each of these outcomes. It is known that after a first infection the outcome of...
What every American needs to know about Puerto Rico’s hurricane disaster
9 essential things to know about Puerto Rico's humanitarian crisis.
What happened to Zika? Florida has no local cases this year - so far
The mosquito-borne virus that emerged in Miami last year has been conspicuously absent in Florida this year, with fewer infections and no local cases as of Aug. 10. Zika cases have also declined in the Caribbean and South America.
Domino Chain Reaction (short version)
A domino can knock over another domino about 1.5x larger than itself. A chain of dominos of increasing size makes a kind of mechanical chain reaction that st...