Science

Treatments

• LY-CoV555, a rapidly isolated potent neutralizing antibody, provides protection in a non-human primate model of SARS-CoV-2 infection – October 1, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates associated with circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels – September 17, 2020

Transmission

• Molecular Architecture of Early Dissemination and Massive Second Wave of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus in a Major Metropolitan Area – September 25, 2020
• Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: A Review of Viral, Host, and Environmental Factors – September 17, 2020
• Community and Close Contact Exposures Associated with COVID-19 Among Symptomatic Adults ≥18 Years in 11 Outpatient Health Care Facilities — United States, July 2020 – September 11, 2020
• Rapid Scoping Review of Evidence of Outdoor Transmission of COVID-19 – September 10, 2020
• Probable Evidence of Fecal Aerosol Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a High-Rise Building – September 1, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2: The Growing Case for Potential Transmission in a Building via Wastewater Plumbing Systems – September 1st, 2020
• Estimating Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 – June 27, 2020
• Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1 – April 16, 2020
• Stability of SARS-CoV-2 in different environmental conditions – April 2, 2020

Masks

• Efficacy of masks and face coverings in controlling outward aerosol particle emission from expiratory activities – September 24, 2020

PCR (Nasal Swab) & Antibody / Serology Tests

• Testing for responses to the wrong SARS-CoV-2 antigen? – September 5, 2020
• Comparison of molecular testing strategies for COVID-19 control: a mathematical modelling study – August 18, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing of skin for COVID-19 diagnostics: a case report – August 13, 2020
• Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Hong Kong returnees – August 01, 2020
• Serologic responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection among hospital staff with mild disease in eastern France – July 30, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2 detection in different respiratory sites: A systematic review and meta-analysis – July 24, 2020
• The time to do serosurveys for COVID-19 is now – July 24, 2020
• Serology testing in the COVID-19 pandemic response – July 17, 2020

On-Going Symptoms

• Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 replication in an immunocompromised patient – September 22, 2020
• Long-term consequences of COVID-19: research needs – September 1, 2020

Reinfection / Testing Positive After Recovery

• Clinical, immunological and virological characterization of COVID-19 patients that test re-positive for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR – August 24, 2020
• Twelve out of 117 recovered COVID-19 patients retest positive in a single-center study of China – August 24, 2020
• Assessment of patients who tested positive for COVID-19 after recovery – July 06, 2020

Immunity

• Neutralizing antibody response in non-hospitalized SARS-CoV-2 patients – September 22, 2020
• Seasonal coronavirus protective immunity is short-lasting – September 14, 2020
• Evolution of immunity to SARS-CoV-2 – September 11, 2020
• Robust T Cell Immunity in Convalescent Individuals with Asymptomatic or Mild COVID-19 – August 14, 2020

Particulate Matter / Air Pollution

• Pandemic Meets Pollution: Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19 – June 29, 2020
• Can exposure to PM_2.5 particles increase the incidence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)? – June 23, 2020
• Air Pollution Exposure and COVID-19 – June 23, 2020
• The Potential role of Particulate Matter in the Spreading of COVID-19 in Northern Italy: First Evidence-based Research Hypotheses – April 17, 2020
• Air Pollution and the Novel Covid-19 Disease: a Putative Disease Risk Factor – April 15, 2020
• Two mechanisms for accelerated diffusion of COVID-19 outbreaks in regions with high intensity of population and polluting industrialization: the air pollution-to-human and human-to-human transmission dynamics – April 11, 2020
• Regional air pollution persistence links to COVID-19 infection zoning – April 10, 2020
• Exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States: A nationwide cross-sectional study – April 7, 2020

COVID-19 Complications: Inflammation

• COVID-19-associated hyperinflammation and escalation of patient care: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study – August 21, 2020
• Delving beneath the surface of hyperinflammation in COVID-19 – August 21, 2020

Mutations

• D614G Spike Mutation Increases SARS CoV-2 Susceptibility to Neutralization. – September 12, 2020
• SNPs or RNA modifications? Concerns on mutation-based evolutionary studies of SARS-CoV-2 – August 28, 2020
• Effects of a major deletion in the SARS-CoV-2 genome on the severity of infection and the inflammatory response: an observational cohort study – August 18, 2020

Incubation Period

• The Incubation Period of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) From Publicly Reported Confirmed Cases: Estimation and Application – May 5, 2020
• Estimation of incubation period distribution of COVID-19 using disease onset forward time: A novel cross-sectional and forward follow-up study – April 8, 2020
• Median incubation period for COVID-19 – March 17, 2020
• Incubation period of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infections among travellers from Wuhan, China, 20–28 January 2020 – Feb 6, 2020

Vaccines

• What can we expect from first-generation COVID-19 vaccines? – September 21, 2020
• The Russian vaccine for COVID-19 – September 04, 2020
• Encouraging results from phase 1/2 COVID-19 vaccine trials – July 20, 2020

Travel During the Time of COVID-19

• Air travel in the time of COVID-19 – September 1, 2020
• Effects of human mobility restrictions on the spread of COVID-19 in Shenzhen, China: a modelling study using mobile phone data – August 01, 2020

The Effect of COVID-19 on Children

• Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: A systematic review -September 04, 2020
• COVID-19 related stroke in young individuals – September, 2020
• Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children in South Africa – August 21, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2 in cardiac tissue of a child with COVID-19-related multisystem inflammatory syndrome – August 20, 2020
• COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and adolescents – August 17, 2020
• SARS-CoV2 vertical transmission with adverse effects on the newborn – August 17, 2020
• Neonatal management and outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observation cohort study – July 23, 2020
• Management of mother–newborn dyads in the COVID-19 era – July 23. 2020

Miscellaneous

• Nasal Calcium-Rich Salts for Cleaning Airborne Particles from the Airways of Essential Workers, Students, and a Family in Quarantine – October 2, 2020
• Clinical trials of disease stages in COVID 19: complicated and often misinterpreted – August 20, 2020
• Automated and partly automated contact tracing: a systematic review to inform the control of COVID-19 – August 19, 2020
• ECMO for severe ARDS associated with COVID-19: now we know we can, but should we? – August 13. 2020
• Sex differential in COVID-19 mortality varies markedly by age – August 13, 2020
• Can digital contact tracing make up for lost time? – July 16, 2020
• Machine learning for COVID-19—asking the right questions – July 10, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence Among Parturient Women – July 10, 2020