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Last Posted: May 16, 2021
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India’s neighbours race to sequence genomes as COVID surges- From Sri Lanka to Nepal, scientists with limited resources are working feverishly to discover which variants are driving outbreaks.
S Malapati, Nature News, May 14, 2021 -
Risk of COVID-19 variant importation - How useful are travel control measures?
J Arino et al, MEDRXIV, May 15, 2021 -
SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance identifies naturally occurring truncation of ORF7a that limits immune suppression.
A Nemundryi et al, Cell Reports, May 13, 2021 -
Spike-antibody responses following first and second doses of ChAdOx1 and BNT162b2 vaccines by age, gender, and clinical factors - a prospective community cohort study (Virus Watch)
M Shrotri et al, MEDRXIV, May 15, 2021 -
Cardiovascular vulnerability predicts hospitalisation in primary care clinically suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients: a model development and validation study
FS von Royen et al, MEDRXIV, May 14, 2021 -
How the United States Beat the Variants, for Now- The country has managed to avoid a variant-fueled spike in coronavirus cases. Scientists say we were lucky.
C Zimmer et al, NY Times, May 14, 2021 -
Immune Responses to COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines in Patients with Solid Tumors on Active, Immunosuppressive Cancer Therapy
RT Shroff et al, MEDRXIV, May 14, 2021 -
Impact of BNT162b first vaccination on the immune transcriptome of elderly patients infected with the B.1.351 SARS-CoV-2 variant
L Knabl et al, MEDRXIV, May 14, 2021 -
SARS-CoV-2 lineage dynamics in England from January to March 2021 inferred from representative community samples
O Eales et al, MEDRXIV, May 14, 2021 -
Transmission roles of symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19 cases: a modeli
J Tan et al, MEDRXIV, May 14, 2021
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