
12/22/2020
Hot Topics of the Day are picked by experts to capture the latest information and publications on public health genomics and precision health for various diseases and health topics. Sources include published scientific literature, reviews, blogs and popular press articles.
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What’s your risk of catching COVID? These tools help you to find out- A look at apps that predict the chance of infection and illness depending on what you’re doing and where you are.
M Eisenstein, Nature, December 21, 2020
Recurrent emergence and transmission of a SARS-CoV-2 Spike deletion ΔH69/V70
S Kemp et al, BIORXIV, December 21, 2020
How Moderna’s Vaccine Works
J Corum et al, NY Times, December 18, 2020
How the Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Works
J Corum et al, NY Times, December 18, 2020
MIS-C: early lessons from immune profiling
LA Henderson et al, Nat Rev Rheumatology, December 2020
An estimation of undetected COVID cases in France
J Shaman, Nature News, December 21, 2020
Underdetection of COVID-19 cases in France threatens epidemic control.
Pullano Giulia et al. Nature 2020 Dec
A side-by-side comparison of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines
H Branswell, Stat News, December 19, 2020
NIH funds eight studies to uncover risk factors for COVID-19-related inflammatory syndrome in children
Awards part of a larger effort to study pediatric COVID-19 and related conditions.
NIH, December 21, 2020
Public Health Genomics in Action: A State-based Approach to Genomics and Precision Health
CDC Webinar, January 28, 2021
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