A comment by Peeling and Olliaro published March 25th in The Lancet Infectious Diseases suggests that scaling up testing in tandem with appropriate public health measures and vaccine rollout might effectively contribute to all our lives returning to some level of...
An interesting study by Kiang and others in the Lancet Infectious Diseases published March 22nd reviewed this question. Routine viral testing strategies for SARS-CoV-2 infection might facilitate safe airline travel during the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate...
An interesting preprint by Smyth and others in medRxiv suggested that waste-water based epidemiology may provide an alternative and complimentary approach for monitoring communities for the novel variants. Given that SARS-CoV-2 can infect the cells of the...
An interesting study published as a preprint in medRxiv.org looked at this in17 schools in Wisconsin, America. The study by Falk and others looked at the specific mitigation strategies employed at these schools during a time of exceptionally high COVID-19...
A research paper published in BMC infectious diseases on 11th March reviewed this issue. It is essential to understand the epidemiological parameters that determine the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 for public health intervention. Globally, a number of...
A new genetic analysis appears to suggest that a survivor of the 2014 to 2016 West African Ebola outbreak has continued to harbour the virus some five years after being infected and eventually now has transmitted it to someone. The previous known longest Ebola...
