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COVID-19 pandemic (2019-20)

Updated December 2, 2020 Curated Collections

This Collection of articles highlights all content published across the PLOS journals relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019-20. PLOS is committed to disseminating research as quickly as possible, particularly in public health emergencies. All articles published in any PLOS journal are Open Access free of charge to all readers.

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PLOS ONE Clinical, regional, and genetic characteristics of Covid-19 patients from UK Biobank
November 17, 2020 David A. Kolin, Scott Kulm, Paul J. Christos, Olivier Elemento

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has rapidly infected millions of people worldwide. Recent studies suggest that racial…
PLOS ONE An efficient mixture of deep and machine learning models for COVID-19 diagnosis in chest X-ray images
November 17, 2020 Dingding Wang, Jiaqing Mo, Gang Zhou, Liang Xu, Yajun Liu

A newly emerged coronavirus (COVID-19) seriously threatens human life and health worldwide. In coping and fighting against COVID-19, the…
PLOS ONE Incidence and risk factors of kidney impairment on patients with COVID-19: A meta-analysis of 10180 patients
November 16, 2020 Qixin Yang, Xiyao Yang

Background: The novel coronavirus is pandemic around the world. Several researchers have given the evidence of impacts of COVID-19 on the…
PLOS ONE Epidemiology, risk factors and clinical course of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients in a Swiss university hospital: An observational retrospective study
November 13, 2020 Jean Regina, Matthaios Papadimitriou-Olivgeris, Raphaël Burger, Marie-Annick Le Pogam, Tapio Niemi, Paraskevas Filippidis, Jonathan Tschopp, Florian Desgranges, Benjamin Viala, Eleftheria Kampouri, Laurence Rochat, David Haefliger, Mehdi Belkoniene, Carlos Fidalgo, Antonios Kritikos, Katia Jaton, Laurence Senn, Pierre-Alexandre Bart, Jean-Luc Pagani, Oriol Manuel, Loïc Lhopitallier

Background: This study aims to describe the epidemiology of COVID-19 patients in a Swiss university hospital. Methods: This retrospective…
PLOS Biology Superspreading events in the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2: Opportunities for interventions and control
November 12, 2020 Benjamin M. Althouse, Edward A. Wenger, Joel C. Miller, Samuel V. Scarpino, Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Hao Hu

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the etiological agent of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease,…
PLOS ONE Repurposing therapeutics for COVID-19: Rapid prediction of commercially available drugs through machine learning and docking
November 12, 2020 Sovesh Mohapatra, Prathul Nath, Manisha Chatterjee, Neeladrisingha Das, Deepjyoti Kalita, Partha Roy, Soumitra Satapathi

Background: The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread rapidly around the globe…
PLOS ONE Machine learning in predicting respiratory failure in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia—Challenges, strengths, and opportunities in a global health emergency
November 12, 2020 Davide Ferrari, Jovana Milic, Roberto Tonelli, Francesco Ghinelli, Marianna Meschiari, Sara Volpi, Matteo Faltoni, Giacomo Franceschi, Vittorio Iadisernia, Dina Yaacoub, Giacomo Ciusa, Erica Bacca, Carlotta Rogati, Marco Tutone, Giulia Burastero, Alessandro Raimondi, Marianna Menozzi, Erica Franceschini, Gianluca Cuomo, Luca Corradi, Gabriella Orlando, Antonella Santoro, Margherita Digaetano, Cinzia Puzzolante, Federica Carli, Vanni Borghi, Andrea Bedini, Riccardo Fantini, Luca Tabbì, Ivana Castaniere, Stefano Busani, Enrico Clini, Massimo Girardis, Mario Sarti, Andrea Cossarizza, Cristina Mussini, Federica Mandreoli, Paolo Missier, Giovanni Guaraldi

Aims: The aim of this study was to estimate a 48 hour prediction of moderate to severe respiratory failure, requiring mechanical…
PLOS ONE Clinical characteristics of 199 discharged patients with COVID-19 in Fujian Province: A multicenter retrospective study between January 22nd and February 27th, 2020
November 12, 2020 Sijiao Wang, Zhisheng Chen, Yijian Lin, Li Lin, Qunying Lin, Sufang Fang, Yonghong Shi, Xibin Zhuang, Yuming Ye, Ting Wang, Hongying Zhang, Changzhou Shao

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has quickly spread throughout the country and the world since first broke out in Wuhan,…
PLOS ONE SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in health care workers: Preliminary report of a single center study
November 12, 2020 Michael Brant-Zawadzki, Deborah Fridman, Philip A. Robinson, Matthew Zahn, Clayton Chau, Randy German, Marcus Breit, Jason R. Bock, Junko Hara

Serological surveys have been conducted to establish prevalence for COVID-19 antibodies in various cohorts and communities, reporting a…
PLOS ONE Analyzing inter-reader variability affecting deep ensemble learning for COVID-19 detection in chest radiographs
November 12, 2020 Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman, Sudhir Sornapudi, Philip O. Alderson, Les R. Folio, Sameer K. Antani

Data-driven deep learning (DL) methods using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) demonstrate promising performance in natural image…
PLOS ONE COVID-19 in-hospital mortality and mode of death in a dynamic and non-restricted tertiary care model in Germany
November 12, 2020 Siegbert Rieg, Maja von Cube, Johannes Kalbhenn, Stefan Utzolino, Katharina Pernice, Lena Bechet, Johanna Baur, Corinna N. Lang, Dirk Wagner, Martin Wolkewitz, Winfried V. Kern, Paul Biever, on behalf of the COVID UKF Study Group

Background: Reported mortality of hospitalised Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) patients varies substantially, particularly in…
PLOS ONE Electronic health record analysis identifies kidney disease as the leading risk factor for hospitalization in confirmed COVID-19 patients
November 12, 2020 Matthew T. Oetjens, Jonathan Z. Luo, Alexander Chang, Joseph B. Leader, Dustin N. Hartzel, Bryn S. Moore, Natasha T. Strande, H. Lester Kirchner, David H. Ledbetter, Anne E. Justice, David J. Carey, Tooraj Mirshahi

Background: Empirical data on conditions that increase risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) progression are needed to identify high…
PLOS ONE Unmet clinical needs for COVID-19 tests in UK health and social care settings
November 12, 2020 Sara Graziadio, Samuel G. Urwin, Paola Cocco, Massimo Micocci, Amanda Winter, Yaling Yang, D. Ashley Price, Mike Messenger, A. Joy Allen, Bethany Shinkins, on behalf of the CONDOR Steering group

There is an urgent requirement to identify which clinical settings are in most need of COVID-19 tests and the priority role(s) for tests…
PLOS ONE Reproductive number of coronavirus: A systematic review and meta-analysis based on global level evidence
November 11, 2020 Md. Arif Billah, Md. Mamun Miah, Md. Nuruzzaman Khan

Background: The coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) is now a global concern because of its higher transmission capacity and associated adverse…
PLOS ONE Lack of efficacy of standard doses of ivermectin in severe COVID-19 patients
November 11, 2020 Daniel Camprubí, Alex Almuedo-Riera, Helena Martí-Soler, Alex Soriano, Juan Carlos Hurtado, Carme Subirà, Berta Grau-Pujol, Alejandro Krolewiecki, Jose Muñoz

Ivermectin has recently shown efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 in-vitro. We retrospectively reviewed severe COVID-19 patients receiving…
PLOS ONE Development and validation of a 30-day mortality index based on pre-existing medical administrative data from 13,323 COVID-19 patients: The Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 (VACO) Index
November 11, 2020 Joseph T. King Jr., James S. Yoon, Christopher T. Rentsch, Janet P. Tate, Lesley S. Park, Farah Kidwai-Khan, Melissa Skanderson, Ronald G. Hauser, Daniel A. Jacobson, Joseph Erdos, Kelly Cho, Rachel Ramoni, David R. Gagnon, Amy C. Justice

Background: Available COVID-19 mortality indices are limited to acute inpatient data. Using nationwide medical administrative data…
PLOS Biology Monitor for COVID-19 vaccine resistance evolution during clinical trials
November 9, 2020 David A. Kennedy, Andrew F. Read

Although less common than the evolution of antimicrobial drug resistance, vaccine resistance can and has evolved. How likely is it that…
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases COVID-19 unfolding filariasis: The first case of SARS-CoV-2 and Wuchereria bancrofti coinfection
November 9, 2020 Mouhand F. H. Mohamed, Sara F. Mohamed, Zohaib Yousaf, Samah Kohla, Faraj Howady, Yahia Imam

With the evolution of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the number of patients brought to medical attention has increased.…
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Modeling the stability of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on skin, currency, and clothing
November 9, 2020 David E. Harbourt, Andrew D. Haddow, Ashley E. Piper, Holly Bloomfield, Brian J. Kearney, David Fetterer, Kathleen Gibson, Timothy Minogue

A new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in the winter of 2019 in Wuhan, China, and rapidly spread around the world. The extent and…
PLOS ONE Comparative effectiveness and safety of antiviral agents for patients with COVID-19: Protocol for a systematic review and individual-patient data network meta-analysis
November 9, 2020 Yulong Cao, Jiao Shan, Zhizhong Gong, Jiqiu Kuang, Yan Gao

Background: A recent cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, has been caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2…
PLOS ONE Human mobility trends during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
November 9, 2020 Minha Lee, Jun Zhao, Qianqian Sun, Yixuan Pan, Weiyi Zhou, Chenfeng Xiong, Lei Zhang

In March of this year, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, and it continues to threaten public health. This global health crisis imposes…
PLOS ONE Projected impact of COVID-19 mitigation strategies on hospital services in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area
November 9, 2020 Zachary Fowler, Ellie Moeller, Lina Roa, Isaac Deneb Castañeda-Alcántara, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, John G. Meara, Arturo Cervantes-Trejo

Evidence-based models may assist Mexican government officials and health authorities in determining the safest plans to respond to the…
PLOS ONE Modelling the initial epidemic trends of COVID-19 in Italy, Spain, Germany, and France
November 9, 2020 Kai Wang, Lin Ding, Yu Yan, Chengguqiu Dai, Minghan Qu, Dong Jiayi, Xingjie Hao

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has fast spread to over 200 countries and regions worldwide since its outbreak, while in March,…
PLOS ONE Persistent fatigue following SARS-CoV-2 infection is common and independent of severity of initial infection
November 9, 2020 Liam Townsend, Adam H. Dyer, Karen Jones, Jean Dunne, Aoife Mooney, Fiona Gaffney, Laura O'Connor, Deirdre Leavy, Kate O'Brien, Joanne Dowds, Jamie A. Sugrue, David Hopkins, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Cliona Ni Cheallaigh, Parthiban Nadarajan, Anne Marie McLaughlin, Nollaig M. Bourke, Colm Bergin, Cliona O'Farrelly, Ciaran Bannan, Niall Conlon

Fatigue is a common symptom in those presenting with symptomatic COVID-19 infection. However, it is unknown if COVID-19 results in…
PLOS ONE Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 among high-risk populations in Lomé (Togo) in 2020
November 9, 2020 Wemboo Afiwa Halatoko, Yao Rodion Konu, Fifonsi Adjidossi Gbeasor-Komlanvi, Arnold Junior Sadio, Martin Kouame Tchankoni, Koffi Segbeaya Komlanvi, Mounerou Salou, Ameyo Monique Dorkenoo, Issaka Maman, Amétépé Agbobli, Majesté Ihou Wateba, Komi Séraphin Adjoh, Edem Goeh-Akue, Yem-bla Kao, Innocent Kpeto, Paul Pana, Rebecca Kinde-Sossou, Agbeko Tamekloe, Josée Nayo-Apétsianyi, Simon-Pierre Hamadi Assane, Mireille Prine-David, Sossinou Marcel Awoussi, Mohaman Djibril, Moustafa Mijiyawa, Anoumou Claver Dagnra, Didier Koumavi Ekouevi

Background: In December 2019, the COVID-19 outbreak began in China and quickly spread throughout the world and was reclassified as a…
PLOS Biology A network medicine approach to investigation and population-based validation of disease manifestations and drug repurposing for COVID-19
November 6, 2020 Yadi Zhou, Yuan Hou, Jiayu Shen, Reena Mehra, Asha Kallianpur, Daniel A. Culver, Michaela U. Gack, Samar Farha, Joe Zein, Suzy Comhair, Claudio Fiocchi, Thaddeus Stappenbeck, Timothy Chan, Charis Eng, Jae U. Jung, Lara Jehi, Serpil Erzurum, Feixiong Cheng

The global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has led…
PLOS ONE Beyond the peak: A deterministic compartment model for exploring the Covid-19 evolution in Italy
November 6, 2020 Silvio Romano, Annalisa Fierro, Antonella Liccardo

Novel Covid-19 has had a huge impact on the world’s population since December 2019. The very rapid spreading of the virus worldwide, with…
PLOS ONE Pattern of COVID-19 in Sichuan province, China: A descriptive epidemiological analysis
November 5, 2020 Hongfei Song, Xiaoren Cao, Hua Ye, Li He, Guiyu Li, Tingjun Wan, Dong Wang, Yuqiao Liu, Zonghai Huang, Baixue Li, Li Wen, Yue Su, Cen Jiang, Quansheng Feng

This study described the epidemiology of 487 confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in Sichuan province of China, and aimed…
PLOS ONE A one-year hospital-based prospective COVID-19 open-cohort in the Eastern Mediterranean region: The Khorshid COVID Cohort (KCC) study
November 5, 2020 Ramin Sami, Forogh Soltaninejad, Babak Amra, Zohre Naderi, Shaghayegh Haghjooy Javanmard, Bijan Iraj, Somayeh Haji Ahmadi, Azin Shayganfar, Mehrnegar Dehghan, Nilufar Khademi, Nastaran Sadat Hosseini, Mojgan Mortazavi, Marjan Mansourian, Miquel Angel Mañanas, Hamid Reza Marateb, Peyman Adibi

The COVID-19 is rapidly scattering worldwide, and the number of cases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region is rising. Thus, there is a need…
PLOS ONE The impact of individual lifestyle and status on the acquisition of COVID-19: A case—Control study
November 5, 2020 Chang Gao, Zhi Zhao, Fengyuan Li, Jia-lin Liu, Hongyang Xu, Yuanying Zeng, Ling Yang, Jiahao Chen, Xiaoting Lu, Can Wang, Qiang Guo

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread to the world. Whether there is an association between lifestyle behaviors and…
PLOS ONE Is older age associated with COVID-19 mortality in the absence of other risk factors? General population cohort study of 470,034 participants
November 5, 2020 Frederick K. Ho, Fanny Petermann-Rocha, Stuart R. Gray, Bhautesh D. Jani, S. Vittal Katikireddi, Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Hamish Foster, Claire E. Hastie, Daniel F. Mackay, Jason M. R. Gill, Catherine O'Donnell, Paul Welsh, Frances Mair, Naveed Sattar, Carlos A. Celis-Morales, Jill P. Pell

Introduction: Older people have been reported to be at higher risk of COVID-19 mortality. This study explored the factors mediating this…
PLOS ONE Air and surface measurements of SARS-CoV-2 inside a bus during normal operation
November 5, 2020 Piero Di Carlo, Piero Chiacchiaretta, Bruna Sinjari, Eleonora Aruffo, Liborio Stuppia, Vincenzo De Laurenzi, Pamela Di Tomo, Letizia Pelusi, Francesca Potenza, Angelo Veronese, Jacopo Vecchiet, Katia Falasca, Claudio Ucciferri

Transmission pathways of SARS-CoV-2 are aerosol, droplet and touching infected material. The diffusion of the virus contagion among people…
PLOS ONE A national study to assess pharmacists’ preparedness against COVID-19 during its rapid rise period in Pakistan
November 5, 2020 Iltaf Hussain, Abdul Majeed, Hamid Saeed, Furqan K. Hashmi, Imran Imran, Muqarrab Akbar, Muhammad O. Chaudhry, Muhammad Fawad Rasool

To evaluate the pharmacist’s preparedness against the COVID-19 during its rapid rise period in Pakistan, an online cross-sectional study…
PLOS ONE Ocular surface manifestations of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A systematic review and meta-analysis
November 5, 2020 Kanika Aggarwal, Aniruddha Agarwal, Nishant Jaiswal, Neha Dahiya, Alka Ahuja, Sarakshi Mahajan, Louis Tong, Mona Duggal, Meenu Singh, Rupesh Agrawal, Vishali Gupta

Purpose: This study was performed to determine the occurrence of ocular surface manifestations in patients diagnosed with coronavirus…
PLOS ONE Monitoring life expectancy levels during the COVID-19 pandemic: Example of the unequal impact of the first wave on Spanish regions
November 5, 2020 Sergi Trias-Llimós, Tim Riffe, Usama Bilal

Background: To provide an interpretable summary of the impact on mortality of the COVID-19 pandemic we estimate weekly and annual life…
PLOS ONE Boosting test-efficiency by pooled testing for SARS-CoV-2—Formula for optimal pool size
November 4, 2020 Rudolf Hanel, Stefan Thurner

In the current COVID19 crisis many national healthcare systems are confronted with an acute shortage of tests for confirming SARS-CoV-2…
PLOS ONE Clinical characteristics of re-positive COVID-19 patients in Huangshi, China: A retrospective cohort study
November 4, 2020 Ji Zhou, Jingying Zhang, Juan Zhou, Honggang Yi, Zichen Lin, Yu Liu, Min Zhu, Hongyu Wang, Wei Zhang, Hai Xu, Hangping Jiang, Zhengzhong Xiang, Ze Qu, Yuemei Yang, Linjuan Lu, Shuai Guo, Heng Fu, Ian M. Adcock, Yu Wei, Xin Yao

A cluster of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) underwent repeated positive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2…
PLOS ONE Liver injury with COVID-19 based on gastrointestinal symptoms and pneumonia severity
November 4, 2020 Shun Kaneko, Masayuki Kurosaki, Kaoru Nagata, Reiko Taki, Ken Ueda, Satoko Hanada, Koji Takayama, Shinichiro Suzaki, Naoshige Harada, Toru Sugiyama, Masayuki Nagasawa, Namiki Izumi

Background/Aim: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) had become a big threat worldwide. Liver injury is not uncommon in patients with…
PLOS ONE Predictors of in-hospital COVID-19 mortality: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis exploring differences by age, sex and health conditions
November 3, 2020 Arthur Eumann Mesas, Iván Cavero-Redondo, Celia Álvarez-Bueno, Marcos Aparecido Sarriá Cabrera, Selma Maffei de Andrade, Irene Sequí-Dominguez, Vicente Martínez-Vizcaíno

Objective: Risk factors for in-hospital mortality in confirmed COVID-19 patients have been summarized in numerous meta-analyses, but it is…
PLOS ONE Low-dose chest CT for diagnosing and assessing the extent of lung involvement of SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia using a semi quantitative score
November 3, 2020 Thomas Leger, Alexis Jacquier, Pierre-Antoine Barral, Maxime Castelli, Julie Finance, Jean-Christophe Lagier, Matthieu Million, Philippe Parola, Philippe Brouqui, Didier Raoult, Axel Bartoli, Jean-Yves Gaubert, Paul Habert

Objectives: The purpose is to assess the ability of low-dose CT (LDCT) to determine lung involvement in SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia and to…
PLOS ONE Characteristics and outcomes of hospitalised patients with acute kidney injury and COVID-19
November 3, 2020 Patrick Hamilton, Prasanna Hanumapura, Laveena Castelino, Robert Henney, Kathrine Parker, Mukesh Kumar, Michelle Murphy, Tamer Al-Sayed, Sarah Pinnington, Tim Felton, Rachael Challiner, Leonard Ebah

Introduction: COVID-19 has spread globally to now be considered a pandemic by the World Health Organisation. Initially patients appeared to…
PLOS ONE COVID-19 gender susceptibility and outcomes: A systematic review
November 3, 2020 Ines Lakbar, David Luque-Paz, Jean-Louis Mege, Sharon Einav, Marc Leone

Background: Epidemiological differences between men and women have been reported with regards to sepsis, influenza and severe coronavirus…
PLOS ONE Proportion of asymptomatic infection among COVID-19 positive persons and their transmission potential: A systematic review and meta-analysis
November 3, 2020 Mercedes Yanes-Lane, Nicholas Winters, Federica Fregonese, Mayara Bastos, Sara Perlman-Arrow, Jonathon R. Campbell, Dick Menzies

Background: The study objective was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis on the proportion of asymptomatic infection among…
PLOS ONE Clinical impact of monocyte distribution width and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio for distinguishing COVID-19 and influenza from other upper respiratory tract infections: A pilot study
November 2, 2020 Hui-An Lin, Sheng-Feng Lin, Hui-Wen Chang, Yuarn-Jang Lee, Ray-Jade Chen, Sen-Kuang Hou

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a pandemic. Rapidly distinguishing COVID-19 from other respiratory infections is a…
PLOS ONE Performance of nucleocapsid and spike-based SARS-CoV-2 serologic assays
November 2, 2020 Zahra Rikhtegaran Tehrani, Saman Saadat, Ebtehal Saleh, Xin Ouyang, Niel Constantine, Anthony L. DeVico, Anthony D. Harris, George K. Lewis, Shyam Kottilil, Mohammad M. Sajadi

There is an urgent need for an accurate antibody test for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We have developed…
PLOS Medicine Acute kidney injury associated with COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study
October 30, 2020 Nitin V. Kolhe, Richard J. Fluck, Nicholas M. Selby, Maarten W. Taal

Background: Initial reports indicate a high incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), but more data…
PLOS ONE Effect of blood analysis and immune function on the prognosis of patients with COVID-19
October 30, 2020 Yue-Qiang Fu, Yue-Lin Sun, Si-Wei Lu, Yang Yang, Yi Wang, Feng Xu

Introduction: This retrospective study investigated the implications of changes in blood parameters and cellular immune function in…
PLOS ONE Silent disease and loss of taste and smell are common manifestations of SARS-COV-2 infection in a quarantine facility: Saudi Arabia
October 30, 2020 Alanoud Alshami, Rabab Alattas, Hadeel Anan, Abdulbary Alhalimi, Ahmed Alfaraj, Hadi Al Qahtani

Objectives: In this study, we aimed to study the clinical presentations, and viral clearance of SARS-COV-2 positive quarantined…
PLOS Pathogens On the whereabouts of SARS-CoV-2 in the human body: A systematic review
October 30, 2020 Wim Trypsteen, Jolien Van Cleemput, Willem van Snippenberg, Sarah Gerlo, Linos Vandekerckhove

Since SARS-CoV-2 appeared in the human population, the scientific community has scrambled to gather as much information as possible to…
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases SARS-CoV-2 in the Amazon region: A harbinger of doom for Amerindians
October 29, 2020 Juan David Ramírez, Emilia Mia Sordillo, Eduardo Gotuzzo, Carol Zavaleta, Daniel Caplivski, Juan Carlos Navarro, James Lee Crainey, Sergio Luiz Bessa Luz, Lourdes A. Delgado Noguera, Roxane Schaub, Cyril Rousseau, Giovanny Herrera, Maria A Oliveira-Miranda, Maria Teresa Quispe-Vargas, Peter J. Hotez, Alberto Paniz Mondolfi

As the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic continues to expand, healthcare resources globally have been…
PLOS Pathogens “Trained immunity” from Mycobacterium spp. exposure or BCG vaccination and COVID-19 outcomes
October 29, 2020 Samer Singh, Rajendra Prakash Maurya, Rakesh K. Singh

Protective variables for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) are unknown. “Trained immunity” of the populace as a result of Bacille…
PLOS ONE The values of coagulation function in COVID-19 patients
October 29, 2020 Xin Jin, Yongwei Duan, Tengfei Bao, Junjuan Gu, Yawen Chen, Yuanyuan Li, Shi Mao, Yongfeng Chen, Wen Xie

Objective: To investigate the blood coagulation function in COVID-19 patients, and the correlation between coagulopathy and disease…
PLOS ONE Assessing COVID-19 risk, vulnerability and infection prevalence in communities
October 29, 2020 Amin Kiaghadi, Hanadi S. Rifai, Winston Liaw

Background: The spread of coronavirus in the United States with nearly five and half million confirmed cases and over 170,000 deaths has…
PLOS ONE The first wave of COVID-19 in Israel—Initial analysis of publicly available data
October 29, 2020 Mark Last

The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Israel on February 21, 2020. Within approximately 30 days, the total number of confirmed cases…
PLOS ONE SARS-CoV-2 RNA shedding in recovered COVID-19 cases and the presence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in recovered COVID-19 cases and close contacts, Thailand, April-June 2020
October 29, 2020 Chintana Chirathaworn, Manit Sripramote, Piti Chalongviriyalert, Supunnee Jirajariyavej, Phatharaporn Kiatpanabhikul, Jatuporn Saiyarin, Chuleekorn Soudon, Orawan Thienfaidee, Thitisan Palakawong Na Ayuthaya, Chantapat Brukesawan, Dootchai Chaiwanichsiri, Duangnapa Intharasongkroh, Nasamon Wanlapakorn, Jira Chansaenroj, Jiratchaya Puenpa, Ritthideach Yorsaeng, Arunee Thitithanyanont, Rungrueng Kitphati, Anek Mungaomklang, Pijaya Nagavajara, Yong Poovorawan

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Although Thailand has…
PLOS ONE On the temporal spreading of the SARS-CoV-2
October 29, 2020 Francesca Bertacchini, Eleonora Bilotta, Pietro S. Pantano

The behaviour of SARS-CoV-2 virus is certainly one of the most challenging in contemporary world. Although the mathematical modelling of…
PLOS ONE Facilitators and barriers to engagement with contact tracing during infectious disease outbreaks: A rapid review of the evidence
October 29, 2020 Odette Megnin-Viggars, Patrice Carter, G. J. Melendez-Torres, Dale Weston, G. James Rubin

Background: Until a vaccine is developed, a test, trace and isolate strategy is the most effective method of controlling the COVID-19…
PLOS Pathogens Rapid deployment of SARS-CoV-2 testing: The CLIAHUB
October 28, 2020 Emily D. Crawford, Irene Acosta, Vida Ahyong, Erika C. Anderson, Shaun Arevalo, Daniel Asarnow, Shannon Axelrod, Patrick Ayscue, Camillia S. Azimi, Caleigh M. Azumaya, Stefanie Bachl, Iris Bachmutsky, Aparna Bhaduri, Jeremy Bancroft Brown, Joshua Batson, Astrid Behnert, Ryan M. Boileau, Saumya R. Bollam, Alain R. Bonny, David Booth, Michael Jerico B. Borja, David Brown, Bryan Buie, Cassandra E. Burnett, Lauren E. Byrnes, Katelyn A. Cabral, Joana P. Cabrera, Saharai Caldera, Gabriela Canales, Gloria R. Castañeda, Agnes Protacio Chan, Christopher R. Chang, Arthur Charles-Orszag, Carly Cheung, Unseng Chio, Eric D. Chow, Y. Rose Citron, Allison Cohen, Lillian B. Cohn, Charles Chiu, Mitchel A. Cole, Daniel N. Conrad, Angela Constantino, Andrew Cote, Tre’Jon Crayton-Hall, Spyros Darmanis, Angela M. Detweiler, Rebekah L. Dial, Shen Dong, Elias M. Duarte, David Dynerman, Rebecca Egger, Alison Fanton, Stacey M. Frumm, Becky Xu Hua Fu, Valentina E. Garcia, Julie Garcia, Christina Gladkova, Miriam Goldman, Rafael Gomez-Sjoberg, M. Grace Gordon, James C. R. Grove, Shweta Gupta, Alexis Haddjeri-Hopkins, Pierce Hadley, John Haliburton, Samantha L. Hao, George Hartoularos, Nadia Herrera, Melissa Hilberg, Kit Ying E. Ho, Nicholas Hoppe, Shayan Hosseinzadeh, Conor J. Howard, Jeffrey A. Hussmann, Elizabeth Hwang, Danielle Ingebrigtsen, Julia R. Jackson, Ziad M. Jowhar, Danielle Kain, James Y. S. Kim, Amy Kistler, Oriana Kreutzfeld, Jessie Kulsuptrakul, Andrew F. Kung, Charles Langelier, Matthew T. Laurie, Lena Lee, Kun Leng, Kristoffer E. Leon, Manuel D. Leonetti, Sophia R. Levan, Sam Li, Aileen W. Li, Jamin Liu, Heidi S. Lubin, Amy Lyden, Jennifer Mann, Sabrina Mann, Gorica Margulis, Diana M. Marquez, Bryan P. Marsh, Calla Martyn, Elizabeth E. McCarthy, Aaron McGeever, Alexander F. Merriman, Lauren K. Meyer, Steve Miller, Megan K. Moore, Cody T. Mowery, Tanzila Mukhtar, Lusajo L. Mwakibete, Noelle Narez, Norma F. Neff, Lindsay A. Osso, Diter Oviedo, Suping Peng, Maira Phelps, Kiet Phong, Peter Picard, Lindsey M. Pieper, Neha Pincha, Angela Oliveira Pisco, Angela Pogson, Sergei Pourmal, Robert R. Puccinelli, Andreas S. Puschnik, Elze Rackaityte, Preethi Raghavan, Madhura Raghavan, James Reese, Joseph M. Replogle, Hanna Retallack, Helen Reyes, Donald Rose, Marci F. Rosenberg, Estella Sanchez-Guerrero, Sydney M. Sattler, Laura Savy, Stephanie K. See, Kristin K. Sellers, Paula Hayakawa Serpa, Maureen Sheehy, Jonathan Sheu, Sukrit Silas, Jessica A. Streithorst, Jack Strickland, Doug Stryke, Sara Sunshine, Peter Suslow, Renaldo Sutanto, Serena Tamura, Michelle Tan, Jiongyi Tan, Alice Tang, Cristina M. Tato, Jack C. Taylor, Iliana Tenvooren, Erin M. Thompson, Edward C. Thornborrow, Eric Tse, Tony Tung, Marc L. Turner, Victoria S. Turner, Rigney E. Turnham, Mary J. Turocy, Trisha V. Vaidyanathan, Ilia D. Vainchtein, Manu Vanaerschot, Sara E. Vazquez, Anica M. Wandler, Anne Wapniarski, James T. Webber, Zara Y. Weinberg, Alexandra Westbrook, Allison W. Wong, Emily Wong, Gajus Worthington, Fang Xie, Albert Xu, Terrina Yamamoto, Ying Yang, Fauna Yarza, Yefim Zaltsman, Tina Zheng, Joseph L. DeRisi

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PLOS ONE Estimation of the percentages of undiagnosed patients of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection in Hokkaido, Japan by using birth-death process with recursive full tracing
October 28, 2020 Takuma Tanaka, Takayuki Yamaguchi, Yohei Sakamoto

Estimating the percentages of undiagnosed and asymptomatic patients is essential for controlling the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, and for…
PLOS ONE Common childhood vaccines do not elicit a cross-reactive antibody response against SARS-CoV-2
October 28, 2020 Ahmed Kandeil, Mokhtar R. Gomaa, Ahmed El Taweel, Ahmed Mostafa, Mahmoud Shehata, Ahmed E. Kayed, Omnia Kutkat, Yassmin Moatasim, Sara H. Mahmoud, Mina Nabil Kamel, Noura M. Abo Shama, Mohamed El Sayes, Rabeh El-Shesheny, Mahmoud A. Yassien, Richard J. Webby, Ghazi Kayali, Mohamed A. Ali

Anecdotal evidence showed a negative correlation between Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination and incidence of COVID-19. Incidence of…
PLOS ONE COVID-19 outbreak in long-term care facilities from Spain. Many lessons to learn
October 27, 2020 Marta Mas Romero, Almudena Avendaño Céspedes, María Teresa Tabernero Sahuquillo, Elisa Belén Cortés Zamora, Cristina Gómez Ballesteros, Victoria Sánchez-Flor Alfaro, Rita López Bru, Melisa López Utiel, Sara Celaya Cifuentes, Luz María Peña Longobardo, Antonio Murillo Romero, Laura Plaza Carmona, Borja Gil García, Ana Pérez Fernández-Rius, Rubén Alcantud Córcoles, Belén Roldán García, Luis Romero Rizos, Pedro Manuel Sánchez Jurado, Matilde León Ortiz, Pilar Atienzar Núñez, Alicia Noguerón García, María Fe Ruiz García, Rafael García Molina, Juan de Dios Estrella Cazalla, Juan Oliva Moreno, Pedro Abizanda

Background/Objectives: To analyze mortality, costs, residents and personnel characteristics, in six long-term care facilities (LTCF) during…
PLOS ONE Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody response in PCR positive patients: Comparison of nine tests in relation to clinical data
October 27, 2020 Paul Naaber, Kaidi Hunt, Jaana Pesukova, Liis Haljasmägi, Pauliina Rumm, Pärt Peterson, Jelena Hololejenko, Irina Eero, Piia Jõgi, Karolin Toompere, Epp Sepp

SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests are available in various formats, detecting different viral target proteins and antibody subclasses. The…
PLOS ONE Cancer inpatients with COVID-19: A report from the Brazilian National Cancer Institute
October 26, 2020 Andreia C. de Melo, Luiz C. S. Thuler, Jesse L. da Silva, Lucas Z. de Albuquerque, Ana C. Pecego, Luciana de O. R. Rodrigues, Magda S. da Conceição, Marianne M. Garrido, Gelcio L. Quintella Mendes, Ana Cristina P. Mendes Pereira, Marcelo A. Soares, João P. B. Viola, on behalf of the Brazilian National Cancer Institute COVID-19 Task Force

Objective: This study aimed to describe the demographic and clinical characteristics of cancer inpatients with COVID-19 exploring clinical…
PLOS ONE Surgery for non-Covid-19 patients during the pandemic
October 23, 2020 Martin Hübner, Tobias Zingg, David Martin, Philippe Eckert, Nicolas Demartines

Background: In the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, mainly data related to the burden of care required by infected patients were…
PLOS ONE Prevalence of underlying diseases in died cases of COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis
October 23, 2020 Fatemeh Javanmardi, Abdolkhalegh Keshavarzi, Ali Akbari, Amir Emami, Neda Pirbonyeh

Introduction: Underlying disease have a critical role in vulnerability of populations for a greater morbidity and mortality when they…
PLOS ONE Behavioral practices of patients with multiple sclerosis during Covid-19 pandemic
October 22, 2020 Hind Alnajashi, Razan Jabbad
PLOS ONE Global impact of environmental temperature and BCG vaccination coverage on the transmissibility and fatality rate of COVID-19
October 22, 2020 Amit Kumar, Shubham Misra, Vivek Verma, Ramesh K. Vishwakarma, Vineet Kumar Kamal, Manabesh Nath, Kiran Prakash, Ashish Datt Upadhyay, Jitendra Kumar Sahu
PLOS ONE COVID-19 observations and accompanying dataset of non-pharmaceutical interventions across U.S. universities, March 2020
October 16, 2020 Kevin E. Cevasco, Hayley M. North, Sheryne A. Zeitoun, Rachel N. Wofford, Graham A. Matulis, Abigail F. Gregory, Maha H. Hassan, Aya D. Abdo, David Farris, Amira A. Roess, Michael E. von Fricken
PLOS ONE Is “no test is better than a bad test”? Impact of diagnostic uncertainty in mass testing on the spread of COVID-19
October 21, 2020 Nicholas Gray, Dominic Calleja, Alexander Wimbush, Enrique Miralles-Dolz, Ander Gray, Marco De Angelis, Elfriede Derrer-Merk, Bright Uchenna Oparaji, Vladimir Stepanov, Louis Clearkin, Scott Ferson
PLOS ONE Serum-IgG responses to SARS-CoV-2 after mild and severe COVID-19 infection and analysis of IgG non-responders
October 21, 2020 Emelie Marklund, Susannah Leach, Hannes Axelsson, Kristina Nyström, Heléne Norder, Mats Bemark, Davide Angeletti, Anna Lundgren, Staffan Nilsson, Lars-Magnus Andersson, Aylin Yilmaz, Magnus Lindh, Jan-Åke Liljeqvist, Magnus Gisslén
PLOS ONE A flexible method for optimising sharing of healthcare resources and demand in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
October 21, 2020 Lucas Lacasa, Robert Challen, Ellen Brooks-Pollock, Leon Danon
PLOS ONE Understanding factors influencing the length of hospital stay among non-severe COVID-19 patients: A retrospective cohort study in a Fangcang shelter hospital
October 21, 2020 Shishi Wu, Lanping Xue, Helena Legido-Quigley, Mishal Khan, Hua Wu, Xiaoxiang Peng, Xuewen Li, Ping Li
PLOS Medicine Rapid Epidemiological Analysis of Comorbidities and Treatments as risk factors for COVID-19 in Scotland (REACT-SCOT): A population-based case-control study
October 20, 2020 Paul M. McKeigue, Amanda Weir, Jen Bishop, Stuart J. McGurnaghan, Sharon Kennedy, David McAllister, Chris Robertson, Rachael Wood, Nazir Lone, Janet Murray, Thomas M. Caparrotta, Alison Smith-Palmer, David Goldberg, Jim McMenamin, Colin Ramsay, Sharon Hutchinson, Helen M. Colhoun, on behalf of Public Health Scotland COVID-19 Health Protection Study Group
PLOS ONE Proteins associated with neutrophil degranulation are upregulated in nasopharyngeal swabs from SARS-CoV-2 patients
October 20, 2020 Emel Akgun, Mete Bora Tuzuner, Betul Sahin, Meltem Kilercik, Canan Kulah, Hacer Nur Cakiroglu, Mustafa Serteser, Ibrahim Unsal, Ahmet Tarik Baykal
PLOS ONE The implementation of a rapid sample preparation method for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in a diagnostic laboratory in South Africa
October 20, 2020 Gert Marais, Michelle Naidoo, Nei-yuan Hsiao, Ziyaad Valley-Omar, Heidi Smuts, Diana Hardie
PLOS ONE Physiological and socioeconomic characteristics predict COVID-19 mortality and resource utilization in Brazil
October 14, 2020 Salomón Wollenstein-Betech,Amanda A. B. Silva,Julia L. Fleck,Christos G. Cassandras,Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis
PLOS ONE Association between COVID-19 prognosis and disease presentation, comorbidities and chronic treatment of hospitalized patients
October 15, 2020 Alejandro Rodríguez-Molinero ,César Gálvez-Barrón,Antonio Miñarro,Oscar Macho,Gabriela F. López,Maria Teresa Robles,María Dolores Dapena,Sergi Martínez,Núria Milà Ràfols,Ernesto E. Monaco,Antonio Hidalgo García,on behalf of the COVID-19 Research Group of CSAPG
PLOS ONE Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) face-mask ventilation is an easy and cheap option to manage a massive influx of patients presenting acute respiratory failure during the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak: A retrospective cohort study
October 14, 2020 Sophie Alviset,Quentin Riller,Jérôme Aboab,Kelly Dilworth,Pierre-Antoine Billy,Yannis Lombardi,Mathilde Azzi,Luis Ferreira Vargas,Laurent Laine,Mathilde Lermuzeaux,Nathalie Mémain,Daniel Silva,Tona Tchoubou,Daria Ushmorova,Hanane Dabbagh,Simon Escoda,Rémi Lefrançois,Annelyse Nardi,Armand Ngima,Vincent Ioos
PLOS ONE Residual clinical damage after COVID-19: a retrospective and prospective observational cohort study
October 14, 2020 Rebecca De Lorenzo, Caterina Conte, Chiara Lanzani, Francesco Benedetti, Luisa Roveri, Mario Mazza, Elena Brioni, Giacomo Giacalone, Valentina Canti, Valentina Sofia, Marta D'Amico, Davide Di Napoli, Alberto Ambrosio, Paolo Scarpellini, Antonella Castagna, Giovanni Landoni, Alberto Zangrillo, Moreno Tresoldi, Emanuele Bosi, Fabio Ciceri, Patrizia Rovere-Querini
PLOS ONE Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in patients with differing severities of coronavirus disease 2019
October 9, 2020 Ekasit Kowitdamrong,Thanyawee Puthanakit,Watsamon Jantarabenjakul,Eakachai Prompetchara,Pintip Suchartlikitwong,Opass Putcharoen,Nattiya Hirankarn
PLOS ONE In-hospital mortality is associated with inflammatory response in NAFLD patients admitted for COVID-19 (In-hospital mortality from COVID-19 in patients with NAFLD)
October 8, 2020 Roberta Forlano, Benjamin Mullish, Sujit Mukherjee, Rooshi Nathwani, Cristopher Harlow, Peter Crook, Rebekah Judge, Anet Soubieres, Paul Middleton, Anna Daunt, Pablo Perez-Guzman, Nowlan Selvapatt, Maud Lemoine, Ameet Dhar, Mark Thursz, Shevanthi Nayagam, Pinelopi Manousou
PLOS ONE Therapeutic effects of Adenosine in high flow 21% oxygen aereosol in patients with Covid19-Pneumonia.
October 8, 2020 Federico Bilotta, Pierpaolo Correale, Massimo Caracciolo, Marco Conte, Maria Cuzzola, Carmela Falcone, Carmelo Mangano, Antonella Falzea, Eleonora Iuliano, Antonella Morabito, Giuseppe Foti, Antonio Armentano, Michele Caraglia, Antonino De Lorenzo, Michail Sitkovsky, Sebastiano Macheda
PLOS ONE Non-communicable diseases and inequalities increase risk of death among COVID-19 patients in Mexico
October 8, 2020 Juan Pablo Gutierrez, Stefano Bertozzi
PLOS ONE GENDER DIFFERENCES IN PREDICTORS OF INTENSIVE CARE UNITS ADMISSION AMONG COVID-19 PATIENTS:The results of the SARS-RAS study of the Italian Society of Hypertension
October 6, 2020 Guido Iaccarino, Guido Grassi, Claudio Borghi, Stefano Carugo, Francesco Fallo, Claudio Ferri, Cristina Giannattasio, Davide Grassi, Claudio Letizia, Costantino Mancusi, Pietro Minuz, Stafano Perlini, Giacomo Pucci, Damiano Rizzoni, Massimo Salvetti, Riccardo Sarzani, Leonardo Sechi, Franco Veglio, Massimo Volpe, Maria Lorenza Muiesan
PLOS ONE Patterns of organizing pneumonia and microinfarcts as surrogate for endothelial disruption and microangiopathic thromboembolic events in patients with coronavirus disease 2019
October 5, 2020 Katharina Martini, Christian Blüthgen, Joan Walter, Thi Dan Linh Nguyen-Kim, Friedrich Thienemann, Thomas Frauenfelder
PLOS ONE Patients with mild and general COVID-19 should be negative for at least 3 consecutive nucleic acid tests before discharged
October 2, 2020 Xiaoping Liu, Rui Lu, Tianhui Huang, Haiqing Hu
PLOS Biology Direct RT-qPCR detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from patient nasopharyngeal swabs without an RNA extraction step
October 2, 2020 Emily Bruce, Meei-Li Huang, Garrett Perchetti, Scott Tighe, Pheobe Laaguiby, Jessica Hoffman, Diana Gerrard, Arun Nalla, Yulun Wei, Alexander Greninger, Sean Diehl, David Shirley, Debra Leonard, Christopher Huston, Beth Kirkpatrick, Julie Dragon, Jessica Crothers, Keith Jerome, Jason Botten
PLOS Medicine Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in people with an acute loss in their sense of smell and/or taste in a community-based population in London, UK: An observational cohort study
October 1, 2020 Janine Makaronidis, Jessica Mok, Nyaladzi Balogun, Cormac Magee, Rumana Omar, Alisia Carnemolla, Rachel Batterham
PLOS ONE Clinical laboratory parameters associated with severe or critical novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a systematic review and meta-analysis
October 1, 2020 Jude Moutchia, Pratik Pokharel, Aldiona Kerri, Kaodi McGaw, Shreeshti Uchai, Miriam Nji, Michael Goodman
PLOS ONE Development and external validation of a prediction risk model for short-term mortality among hospitalized U.S. COVID-19 patients: A proposal for the COVID-AID risk tool
September 30, 2020 Kaveh Hajifathalian, Reem Z. Sharaiha, Sonal Kumar, Tibor Krisko, Daniel Skaf, Bryan Ang, Walker D. Redd, Joyce C. Zhou, Kelly E. Hathorn, Thomas R. McCarty, Ahmad Najdat Bazarbashi, Cheikh Njie, Danny Wong, Lin Shen, Evan Sholle, David E. Cohen, Robert S. Brown Jr., Walter W. Chan, Brett E. Fortune
PLOS ONE Safety of bedside surgical tracheostomy during COVID-19 pandemic: A retrospective observational study
September 30, 2020 Edoardo Picetti, Anna Fornaciari, Fabio Silvio Taccone, Laura Malchiodi, Silvia Grossi, Filippo Di Lella, Maurizio Falcioni, Giulia D’Angelo, Emanuele Sani, Sandra Rossi
PLOS ONE Analysis of COVID-19 clinical trials: A data-driven, ontology-based, and natural language processing approach
September 30, 2020 Shray Alag
PLOS ONE The changes of the peripheral CD4+ lymphocytes and inflammatory cytokines in Patients with COVID-19
September 25, 2020 Hua-Bao Sun, Yi-Ming Zhang, Li-Gui Huang, Zhan-Ke Wang, Qi-Nan Lai, Qun Mo, Xin-Zhou Ye, Tao Wang, Zhong-Zhen Zhu, Xiao-Lin Lv, Yan-Ji Luo, Shi-Ding Gao, Jin-Song Xu, Hao-Hao Zhu, Ting Li
PLOS ONE Vitamin D Sufficiency, a Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D at Least 30 ng/mL Reduced Risk for Adverse Clinical Outcomes in Patients with COVID-19 Infection
September 25, 2020 Zhila Maghbooli, Mohammad Sahraian, Mehdi Ebrahimi, Mehrad Nasiri, Marzieh Pazoki, Samira Kafan, Hedieh Tabriz, Azar Hadadi, Mahnaz Montazeri, Arash Shirvani, Michael Holick
PLOS Pathogens Comparative assessment of multiple COVID-19 serological technologies supports continued evaluation of point-of-care lateral flow assays in hospital and community healthcare settings
September 24, 2020 Suzanne Pickering, Gilberto Betancor, Rui Galão, Blair Merrick, Adrian Signell, Harry Wilson, Mark Kia Ik, Jeffrey Seow, Carl Graham, Sam Acors, Neophytos Kouphou, Kathryn Steel, Oliver Hemmings, Amita Patel, Gaia Nebbia, Sam Douthwaite, Lorcan O'Connell, Jakub Luptak, Laura McCoy, Philip Brouwer, Marit van Gils, Rogier Sanders, Rocio Martinez Nunez, Karen Bisnauthsing, Geraldine O'Hara, Eithne MacMahon, Rahul Batra, Michael Malim, Stuart Neil, Katie Doores, Jonathan Edgeworth
PLOS ONE A web visualization tool using T cell subsets as the predictor to evaluate covid-19 patient’s severity
September 24, 2020 Peng Peng, Qibin Liu, Xuemin Fang, Shinichi Tokuno, Ungil Chung, Xianxiang Chen, Xiyong Dai, Xiaoyu Liu, Feng Xu, Bing Wang
PLOS ONE Clinical and imaging features predict mortality in COVID-19 infection in Iran
September 24, 2020 Fatemeh Homayounieh, Eric W. Zhang, Rosa Babaei, Hadi Karimi Mobin, Maedeh Sharifian, Iman Mohseni, Anderson Kuo, Chiara Arru, Mannudeep Kalra, Subba Digumarthy
PLOS ONE Characteristics, laboratories, and prognosis of severe COVID-19 in the Tokyo metropolitan area: A retrospective case series
September 24, 2020 Shusuke Mori, Tomohiko Ai, Yasuhiro Otomo
PLOS ONE Lipoprotein concentrations over time in the intensive care unitCOVID-19 patients: Results from the ApoCOVID study
September 24, 2020 Sébastien TANAKA, Christian DE TYMOWSKI, Maksud ASSADI, Nathalie ZAPPELLA, Sylvain JEAN-BAPTISTE, Tiphaine ROBERT, Katell PEOC'H, Brice LORTAT-JACOB, Lauriane FONTAINE, Donia BOUZID, Alexy TRAN-DINH, Parvine TASHK, Olivier MEILHAC, Philippe MONTRAVERS
PLOS ONE Second week methyl-prednisolone pulses improve prognosis in patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 pneumonia: an observational comparative study using routine care data.
September 22, 2020 Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza, Jose-Ignacio Pijoan, Elena Bereciartua, Susanna Dunder, Jokin Dominguez, Paula Garcia-Escudero, Alejandro Rodrigo, Carlota Gomez-Carballo, Jimena Varona, Laura Guio, Marta Ibarrola, Amaia Ugarte, Agustin Martinez-Berriotxoa
PLOS Medicine Patterns of COVID-19 testing and mortality by race and ethnicity among United States veterans: A nationwide cohort study
September 22, 2020 Christopher Rentsch, Farah Kidwai-Khan, Janet Tate, Lesley Park, Joseph King, Melissa Skanderson, Ronald Hauser, Anna Schultze, Christopher Jarvis, Mark Holodniy, Vincent Lo Re III, Kathleen Akgün, Kristina Crothers, Tamar Taddei, Matthew Freiberg, Amy Justice
PLOS Medicine Occurrence and transmission potential of asymptomatic and presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections: A living systematic review and meta-analysis
September 22, 2020 Diana Buitrago-Garcia, Dianne Egli-Gany, Michel Counotte, Stefanie Hossmann, Hira Imeri, Aziz Ipekci, Georgia Salanti, Nicola Low
PLOS ONE A machine learning algorithm to increase COVID-19 inpatient diagnostic capacity
September 22, 2020 David Goodman-Meza, Akos Rudas, Jeffrey Chiang, Paul Adamson, Joseph Ebinger, Nancy Sun, Patrick Botting, Jennifer Fulcher, Faysal Saab, Rachel Brook, Eleazar Eskin, Ulzee An, Misagh Kordi, Brandon Jew, Brunilda Balliu, Zeyuan Chen, Brian Hill, Elior Rahmani, Eran Halperin, Vladimir Manuel
PLOS ONE The association between ABO blood group and SARS-CoV-2 infection: A meta-analysis
September 18, 2020 Davide Golinelli, Elisa Maietti, Maria Pia Fantini, Erik Boetto
PLOS ONE Association between procalcitonin levels and duration of mechanical ventilation in COVID-19 patients
September 18, 2020 Martin Krause, David Douin, Timothy Tran, Ana Fernandez-Bustamante, Muhammad Aftab, Karsten Bartels
PLOS ONE Ischemic Stroke in COVID-19: An Urgent Need for Early Identification and Management
June 18, 2020 Dinesh Jillella, Nicholas Janocko, Fadi Nahab, Karima Benameur, James Greene, Wendy Wright, Mahmoud Obideen, Srikant Rangaraju
PLOS Medicine Interventions for treatment of COVID-19: A living systematic review with meta-analyses and trial sequential analyses (The LIVING Project)
September 17, 2020 Sophie Juul, Emil Nielsen, Joshua Feinberg, Faiza Siddiqui, Caroline Jørgensen, Emily Barot, Niklas Nielsen, Peter Bentzer, Areti Veroniki, Lehana Thabane, Fanlong Bu, Sarah Klingenberg, Christian Gluud, Janus Jakobsen
PLOS ONE Clinical, laboratory and radiological characteristics and outcomes of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection in humans: A systematic review and series of meta-analyses
September 17, 2020 Israel Júnior Borges do Nascimento, Thilo Caspar von Groote, Dónal P. O’Mathúna, Hebatullah Mohamed Abdulazeem, Catherine Henderson, Umesh Jayarajah, Ishanka Weerasekara, Tina Poklepovic Pericic, Henning Edgar Gerald Klapproth, Livia Puljak, Nensi Cacic, Irena Zakarija-Grkovic, Silvana Mangeon Meirelles Guimarães, Alvaro Nagib Atallah, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Milena Soriano Marcolino, Ana Marusic, Ana Jeroncic
PLOS ONE Evaluation of performance of two SARS-CoV-2 Rapid IgM-IgG Combined Antibody Tests on capillary whole blood samples from the fingertip
September 17, 2020 Thierry Prazuck, Mathilda Colin, Susanna Giachè, Camélia Gubavu, Aymeric Seve, Vincent Rzepecki, Marie Chevereau-Choquet, Catherine Kiani, Victor Rodot, Elsa Lionnet, Laura Courtellemont, Jérôme Guinard, Gilles Pialoux, Laurent Hocqueloux
PLOS ONE SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates associated with circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels
September 17, 2020 Harvey Kaufman, Justin Niles, Martin Kroll, Caixia Bi, Michael Holick
PLOS ONE Performance of an extended triage questionnaire to detect suspected cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in obstetric patients: experience from two large teaching hospitals in Lombardy, Northern Italy.
September 15, 2020 Sara Ornaghi, Clelia Callegari, Roberta Milazzo, Laura La Milia, Federica Brunetti, Chiara Lubrano, Chiara Tasca, Stefania Livio, Valeria Savasi, Irene Cetin, Patrizia Vergani
PLOS ONE Clinical Characteristics and Risk Factors for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) among Patients under Investigation in Thailand
September 15, 2020 Jackrapong Bruminhent, Nattanon Ruangsubvilai, Jeff Nabhindhakara, Atiporn Ingsathit, Sasisopin Kiertiburanakul
PLOS ONE Neurological symptoms in acute COVID-19 infected patients: a survey among Italian physicians.
September 11, 2020 Laura Campiglio, Alberto Priori
PLOS ONE Early estimation of the risk factors for hospitalization and mortality by COVID-19 in Mexico
September 11, 2020 María Fernanda Carrillo-Vega, Guillermo Salinas-Escudero, Carmen García-Peña, Luis Miguel Gutiérrez-Robledo, Lorena Parra-Rodríguez
PLOS ONE Traditional Chinese Medicine Lianhua Qingwen Treating corona virus disease 2019(COVID-19):meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
September 11, 2020 mengjie zeng, Linjun Li, Zhiquan Wu
PLOS Medicine Adverse outcomes and mortality in users of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2: A Danish nationwide cohort study
September 8, 2020 Lars Christian Lund, Kasper Bruun Kristensen, Mette Reilev, Steffen Christensen, Reimar Wernich Thomsen, Christian Fynbo Christiansen, Henrik Støvring, Nanna Borup Johansen, Nikolai Constantin Brun, Jesper Hallas, Anton Pottegård
PLOS Medicine Comorbidities associated with mortality in 31,461 adults with COVID-19 in the United States: A federated electronic medical record analysis
September 10, 2020 Stephanie Harrison, Elnara Fazio-Eynullayeva, Deirdre Lane, Paula Underhill, Gregory Lip
PLOS Pathogens A comprehensive, longitudinal analysis of humoral responses specific to four recombinant antigens of SARS-CoV-2 in severe and non-severe COVID-19 patients
September 10, 2020 Yuxin Chen, Xin Tong, Yang Li, Bin Gu, Jiawei Yan, Yong Liu, Rui Huang, Han Shen, Chao Wu
PLOS ONE Monitoring trends and differences in COVID-19 case-fatality rates using decomposition methods: Contributions of age structure and age-specific fatality
September 10, 2020 Christian Dudel, Tim Riffe, Enrique Acosta, Alyson van Raalte, Cosmo Strozza, Mikko Myrskylä
PLOS ONE Efficacy of corticosteroids in non-intensive care unit patients with COVID-19 pneumonia from the New York Metropolitan region
September 9, 2020 Monil Majmundar ,Tikal Kansara,Joanna Marta Lenik,Hansang Park,Kuldeep Ghosh,Rajkumar Doshi,Palak Shah,Ashish Kumar,Hossam Amin,Shobhana Chaudhari,Imnett Habtes
PLOS ONE Detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 by droplet digital PCR in real-time PCR negative nasopharyngeal swabs from suspected COVID-19 patients
September 8, 2020 Claudia Alteri, Valeria Cento, Maria Antonello, Luna Colagrossi, Marco Merli, Nicola Ughi, Silvia Renica, Elisa Matarazzo, Federica Di Ruscio, Livia Tartaglione, Jacopo Colombo, Chiara Grimaldi, Stefania Carta, Alice Nava, Valentino Costabile, Chiara Baiguera, Daniela Campisi, Diana Fanti, Chiara Vismara, Roberto Fumagalli, Francesco Scaglione, Oscar Massimiliano Epis, Massimo Puoti, Carlo Federico Perno
PLOS ONE Chest computed tomography (CT) findings and semiquantitative scoring of 60 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A retrospective imaging analysis combining anatomy and pathology
September 4, 2020 Hao Zhang,Xu-jing Jiang,Xiao-hua Liu,Hong Ma,Ya-hong Zhang,Yue Rao,Lin Li,Hai-yan Xu ,Fa-jin Lyu
PLOS ONE Kidney function on admission predicts in-hospital mortality in COVID-19
September 3, 2020 Sinan Trabulus,Cebrail Karaca,Ilker Inanc Balkan,Mevlut Tamer Dincer,Ahmet Murt,Seyda Gul Ozcan,Rıdvan Karaali,Bilgul Mete,Alev Bakir,Mert Ahmet Kuskucu,Mehmet Riza Altiparmak,Fehmi Tabak,Nurhan Seyahi
PLOS ONE Observational study of azithromycin in hospitalized patients with COVID-19
September 3, 2020 Alejandro Rodríguez-Molinero ,Carlos Pérez-López,César Gálvez-Barrón,Antonio Miñarro,Oscar Macho,Gabriela F. López,Maria Teresa Robles,María Dolores Dapena,Sergi Martínez,Ezequiel Rodríguez,Isabel Collado,on behalf of the COVID-19 research group of CSAPG
PLOS ONE Lung ultrasound score in establishing the timing of intubation in COVID-19 interstitial pneumonia: A preliminary retrospective observational study
September 3, 2020 Xiao Lu ,Mao Zhang,Anyu Qian,Luping Tang,Shanxiang Xu
PLOS ONE Risk factors associated with mortality in hospitalized patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. A prospective, longitudinal, unicenter study in Reus, Spain
September 3, 2020 Simona Iftimie,Ana F. López-Azcona,Manuel Vicente-Miralles,Ramon Descarrega-Reina,Anna Hernández-Aguilera,Francesc Riu,Josep M. Simó,Pedro Garrido,Jorge Joven,Jordi Camps ,Antoni Castro
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Incidence, clinical course and risk factor for recurrent PCR positivity in discharged COVID-19 patients in Guangzhou, China: A prospective cohort study
August 31, 2020 Jiazhen Zheng ,Rui Zhou ,Fengjuan Chen ,Guofang Tang,Keyi Wu,Furong Li,Huamin Liu,Jianyun Lu,Jiyuan Zhou,Ziying Yang,Yuxin Yuan,Chunliang Lei ,Xianbo Wu
PLOS ONE Anxiety and depressive symptoms among COVID-19 patients in Jianghan Fangcang Shelter Hospital in Wuhan, China
August 28, 2020 Ling-Ling Dai, Xi Wang, Tian-Ci Jiang, Peng-Fei Li, Yu Wang, Shu-Jun Wu, Liu-Qun Jia, Meng Liu, Lin An, Zhe Cheng
PLOS ONE Pulmonary embolism or thrombosis in ARDS COVID-19 patients: a French monocenter retrospective study.
August 27, 2020 Damien Contou, Olivier Pajot, Radj Cally, Elsa Logre, Megan Fraissé, Hervé Mentec, Gaëtan Plantefève
PLOS ONE Characteristics and outcomes of a cohort of COVID-19 patients in the Province of Reggio Emilia, Italy
August 27, 2020 Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Massimiliano Marino, Debora Formisano, Francesco Venturelli, Massimo Vicentini, Roberto Grilli
PLOS ONE Association of cardiovascular disease and 10 other pre-existing comorbidities with COVID-19 mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis
August 26, 2020 Paddy Ssentongo, Anna Ssentongo, Emily Heilbrunn, Djibril Ba, Vernon Chinchilli
PLOS ONE Chest CT Findings Related to Mortality of Patients with COVID-19: A Retrospective Case-series Study
August 25, 2020 Yiqi Hu, Chenao Zhan, Chengyang Chen, Tao Ai, Liming Xia
PLOS ONE PREVALENCE OF PULMONARY EMBOLISM IN PATIENTS WITH COVID-19 PNEUMONIA AND HIGH D-DIMER VALUES: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY
August 25, 2020 Alberto Alonso-Fernández, Nuria Toledo-Pons, Borja Cosío, Aina Millán, Néstor Calvo, Luisa Ramón, Sara Hermoso de Mendoza, Daniel Morell-García, Josep Bauça-Rossello, Belén Núñez, Jaume Pons, Juan Palmer, Luisa Martín, María Peñaranda, Joan Pou, Jaume Sauleda, Ernest Sala-Llinas
PLOS Biology Real-time public health communication of local SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology
August 21, 2020 Chaney C. Kalinich, Cole G. Jensen, Peter Neugebauer, Mary E. Petrone, Mario Peña-Hernández, Isabel M. Ott, Anne L. Wyllie, Tara Alpert, Chantal B. F. Vogels, Joseph R. Fauver, Nathan D. Grubaugh, Anderson F. Brito
PLOS ONE Prognostic factors in Spanish COVID-19 patients: A case series from Barcelona
August 21, 2020 Antoni Sisó-Almirall, Belchin Kostov, Minerva Mas-Heredia, Sergi Vilanova-Rotllan, Ethel Sequeira-Aymar, Mireia Sans-Corrales, Elisenda Sant-Arderiu, Laia Cayuelas-Redondo, Angela Martínez-Pérez, Noemí García-Plana, August Anguita-Guimet, Jaume Benavent-Àreu
PLOS ONE Diagnostic and prognostic value of hematological and immunological markers in COVID-19 infection: A meta-analysis of 6320 patients
August 21, 2020 Rami M. Elshazli, Eman A. Toraih, Abdelaziz Elgaml, Mohammed El-Mowafy, Mohamed El-Mesery, Mohamed N. Amin, Mohammad H. Hussein, Mary T. Killackey, Manal S. Fawzy, Emad Kandil
PLOS ONE Multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and COVID-19 infection within the UK Biobank cohort
August 20, 2020 Ross McQueenie, Hamish M. E. Foster, Bhautesh D. Jani, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Naveed Sattar, Jill P. Pell, Frederick K. Ho, Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Claire E. Hastie, Jana Anderson, Patrick B. Mark, Michael Sullivan, Catherine A. O’Donnell, Frances S. Mair, Barbara I. Nicholl
PLOS ONE Age could be driving variable SARS-CoV-2 epidemic trajectories worldwide
August 20, 2020 Houssein H. Ayoub, Hiam Chemaitelly, Shaheen Seedat, Ghina R. Mumtaz, Monia Makhoul, Laith J. Abu-Raddad
PLOS ONE Tocilizumab and steroid treatment in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia
August 20, 2020 Malgorzata Mikulska, Laura Ambra Nicolini, Alessio Signori, Antonio Di Biagio, Chiara Sepulcri, Chiara Russo, Silvia Dettori, Marco Berruti, Maria Pia Sormani, Daniele Roberto Giacobbe, Antonio Vena, Andrea De Maria, Chiara Dentone, Lucia Taramasso, Michele Mirabella, Laura Magnasco, Sara Mora, Emanuele Delfino, Federica Toscanini, Elisa Balletto, Anna Ida Alessandrini, Federico Baldi, Federica Briano, Marco Camera, Ferdinando Dodi, Antonio Ferrazin, Laura Labate, Giovanni Mazzarello, Rachele Pincino, Federica Portunato, Stefania Tutino, Emanuela Barisione, Bianca Bruzzone, Andrea Orsi, Eva Schenone, Nirmala Rosseti, Elisabetta Sasso, Giorgio Da Rin, Paolo Pelosi, Sabrina Beltramini, Mauro Giacomini, Giancarlo Icardi, Angelo Gratarola, Matteo Bassetti
PLOS ONE A systematic review of trial registry entries for randomized clinical trials investigating COVID-19 medical prevention and treatment
August 20, 2020 Anders Karlsen, Sebastian Wiberg, Jens Laigaard, Casper Pedersen, Kim Rokamp, Ole Mathiesen
PLOS ONE High seroprevalence for SARS-CoV-2 among household members of essential workers detected using a dried blood spot assay
August 14, 2020 Thomas McDade, Elizabeth McNally, Aaron Zelikovich, Richard D’Aquila, Brian Mustanski, Aaron Miller, Lauren Vaught, Nina Reiser, Elena Bogdanovic, Katherine Fallon, Alexis Demonbreun
PLOS ONE Impact of Cardiovascular Risk Profile on COVID-19 outcome. A Meta-analysis
August 14, 2020 Jolanda Sabatino, Salvatore De Rosa, Giovanni Di Salvo, Ciro Indolfi
PLOS ONE Containment of a healthcare-associated COVID-19 outbreak in a university hospital in Seoul, Korea: a single-center experience
August 14, 2020 Sei Won Kim, Sung Jin Jo, Heayon Lee, Jung Hwan Oh, Jihyang Lim, Sang Haak Lee, Jung Hyun Choi, Jehoon Lee
PLOS ONE Hydroxychloroquine and tocilizumab therapy in COVID-19 patients – An observational study
August 13, 2020 Andrew Ip, Donald Berry, Eric Hansen, Andre Goy, Andrew Pecora, Brittany Sinclaire, Urszula Bednarz, Michael Marafelias, Scott Berry, Nicholas Berry, Shivam Mathura, Ihor Sawczuk, Noa Biran, Ronaldo Go, Steven Sperber, Julia Piwoz, Bindu Balani, Cristina Cicogna, Rani Sebti, Jerry Zuckerman, Keith Rose, Lisa Tank, Laurie Jacobs, Jason Korcak, Sarah Timmapuri, Joseph Underwood, Gregory Sugalski, Carol Barsky, Daniel Varga, Arif Asif, Joseph Landolfi, Stuart Goldberg
PLOS ONE Organisation and characteristics of out-of-hours primary care during a COVID-19 outbreak: a real-time observational study
August 13, 2020 Stefan Morreel, Hilde Philips, Veronique Verhoeven
PLOS ONE Risk Factors for Severe Illness in Hospitalized Covid-19 Patients at a Regional Hospital
August 12, 2020 Justin Turcotte, Barry Meisenberg, James MacDonald, Nandakumar Menon, Marcia Fowler, Michaline West, Jane Rhule, Sadaf Qureshi, Eileen MacDonald
PLOS ONE Development and validation of a model for individualized prediction of hospitalization risk in 4,536 patients with COVID-19.
August 11, 2020 Lara Jehi, Xinge Ji, Alex Milinovich, Serpil Erzurum, Amy Merlino, Steve Gordon, James Young, Michael Kattan
PLOS ONE Clinical, radiological and therapeutic characteristics of patients with COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia
August 6, 2020 Mohammed Shabrawishi, Manal M. Al-Gethamy, Abdallah Y. Naser, Maher A. Ghazawi, Ghaidaa F. Alsharif, Elaf F. Obaid, Haitham A. Melebari, Dhaffer M. Alamri, Ahmad S. Brinji, Fawaz H. Al Jehani, Wail Almaimani, Rakan A. Ekram, Kasim H. Alkhatib, Hassan Alwafi
PLOS ONE Prediction model and risk scores of ICU admission and mortality in COVID-19
July 30, 2020 Zirun Zhao, Anne Chen, Wei Hou, James Graham, Haifang Li, Paul Richman, Henry Thode, Adam Singer, Tim Duong
PLOS Medicine Neonatal outcome in 29 pregnant women with COVID-19: A retrospective study in Wuhan, China
July 28, 2020 Yan-Ting Wu, Jun Liu, Jing-Jing Xu, Yan-Fen Chen, Wen Yang, Yang Chen, Cheng Li, Yu Wang, Han Liu, Chen Zhang, Ling Jiang, Zhao-Xia Qian, Andrew Kawai, Ben Willem Mol, Cindy-Lee Dennis, Guo-Ping Xiong, Bi-Heng Cheng, Jing Yang, He-Feng Huang
PLOS ONE The effect of lockdown on the outcomes of COVID-19 in Spain: an ecological study
July 29, 2020 Camila Siqueira, Yan Freitas, Marianna Cancela, Monica Carvalho, Albert Oliveras-Fabregas, Dyego Leandro Bezerra de Souza
PLOS ONE Deep transfer learning artificial intelligence accurately stages COVID-19 lung disease severity on portable chest radiographs
July 28, 2020 Jocelyn Zhu, Beiyi Shen, Almas Abbasi, Mahsa Hoshmand-Kochi, Tim Duong, Haifang li
PLOS ONE Automated EHR score to predict COVID-19 outcomes at US Department of Veterans Affairs
August 10, 2020 Thomas F. Osborne, Zachary P. Veigulis, David M. Arreola, Eliane Röösli, Catherine M. Curtin
PLOS ONE Quantitative lung lesion features and temporal changes on chest CT in patients with common and severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia
July 24, 2020 Yue Zhang, Ying Liu, Honghan Gong, Lin Wu
PLOS ONE Safety, tolerability, and clinical outcomes of hydroxychloroquine for hospitalized patients with coronavirus 2019 disease
July 23, 2020 Michael J. Satlin, Parag Goyal, Reed Magleby, Grace A. Maldarelli, Khanh Pham, Maiko Kondo, Edward J. Schenck, Hanna Rennert, Lars F. Westblade, Justin J. Choi, Monika M. Safford, Roy M. Gulick
PLOS ONE Pre-existing traits associated with Covid-19 illness severity
July 23, 2020 Joseph E. Ebinger, Natalie Achamallah, Hongwei Ji, Brian L. Claggett, Nancy Sun, Patrick Botting, Trevor-Trung Nguyen, Eric Luong, Elizabeth H. Kim, Eunice Park, Yunxian Liu, Ryan Rosenberry, Yuri Matusov, Steven Zhao, Isabel Pedraza, Tanzira Zaman, Michael Thompson, Koen Raedschelders, Anders H. Berg, Jonathan D. Grein, Paul W. Noble, Sumeet S. Chugh, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Eduardo Marbán, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Scott D. Solomon, Christine M. Albert, Peter Chen, Susan Cheng
PLOS ONE Lung ultrasound score to monitor COVID-19 pneumonia progression in patients with ARDS
July 21, 2020 Auguste Dargent, Emeric Chatelain, Louis Kreitmann, Jean-Pierre Quenot, Martin Cour, Laurent Argaud
PLOS ONE Rate of Intensive Care Unit admission and outcomes among patients with coronavirus: A systematic review and Meta-analysis
July 10, 2020 Semagn Mekonnen Abate, Siraj Ahmed Ali, Bahiru Mantfardo, Bivash Basu
PLOS ONE Studying the trend of the novel coronavirus series in Mauritius and its implications
July 10, 2020 Naushad Mamode Khan, Ashwinee Devi Soobhug, Maleika Heenaye-Mamode Khan
PLOS ONE CT in relation to RT-PCR in diagnosing COVID-19 in The Netherlands: A prospective study
July 9, 2020 Hester A. Gietema, Noortje Zelis, J. Martijn Nobel, Lars J. G. Lambriks, Lieke B. van Alphen, Astrid M. L. Oude Lashof, Joachim E. Wildberger, Irene C. Nelissen, Patricia M. Stassen
PLOS ONE Clinical characteristics of 82 cases of death from COVID-19
July 9, 2020 Bicheng Zhang, Xiaoyang Zhou, Yanru Qiu, Yuxiao Song, Fan Feng, Jia Feng, Qibin Song, Qingzhu Jia, Jun Wang
PLOS ONE CT characteristics and diagnostic value of COVID-19 in pregnancy
July 2, 2020 Xiaoming Gong, Lu Song, Hang Li, Li Li, Wei Jin, KaiHu Yu, Xiaochun Zhang, Hongjun Li, HengNing Ke, ZhiYan Lu
PLOS ONE Analysis of clinical features and early warning signs in patients with severe COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study
June 26, 2020 Xinkui Liu, Xinpei Yue, Furong Liu, Le Wei, Yuntian Chu, Honghong Bao, Yichao Dong, Wenjie Cheng, Linpeng Yang
PLOS ONE Exploring the young demographic profile of COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong: Evidence from migration and travel history data
July 3, 2020 Christian Joy Pattawi Cruz, Rachel Ganly, Zilin Li, Stuart Gietel-Basten
PLOS ONE COVID-19 symptoms predictive of healthcare workers’ SARS-CoV-2 PCR results
June 26, 2020 Fan-Yun Lan, Robert Filler, Soni Mathew, Jane Buley, Eirini Iliaki, Lou Ann Bruno-Murtha, Rebecca Osgood, Costas A. Christophi, Alejandro Fernandez-Montero, Stefanos N. Kales
PLOS ONE New machine learning method for image-based diagnosis of COVID-19
June 26, 2020 Mohamed Abd Elaziz, Khalid M. Hosny, Ahmad Salah, Mohamed M. Darwish, Songfeng Lu, Ahmed T. Sahlol
PLOS ONE Sociodemographic, clinical and laboratory factors on admission associated with COVID-19 mortality in hospitalized patients: A retrospective observational study
June 25, 2020 Mario Rivera-Izquierdo, María del Carmen Valero-Ubierna, Juan Luis R-delAmo, Miguel Ángel Fernández-García, Silvia Martínez-Diz, Arezu Tahery-Mahmoud, Marta Rodríguez-Camacho, Ana Belén Gámiz-Molina, Nicolás Barba-Gyengo, Pablo Gámez-Baeza, Celia Cabrero-Rodríguez, Pedro Antonio Guirado-Ruiz, Divina Tatiana Martín-Romero, Antonio Jesús Láinez-Ramos-Bossini, María Rosa Sánchez-Pérez, José Mancera-Romero, Miguel García-Martín, Virginia Martínez-Ruiz, Pablo Lardelli-Claret, Eladio Jiménez-Mejías, Luis Miguel Martín-delosReyes
PLOS ONE Prevalence of serum IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among clinic staff
July 3, 2020 Simone B. Schmidt, Ludwig Grüter, Melanie Boltzmann, Jens D. Rollnik
PLOS ONE Predictors of severe or lethal COVID-19, including Angiotensin Converting Enzyme inhibitors and Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers, in a sample of infected Italian citizens
June 24, 2020 Francesca Bravi, Maria Elena Flacco, Tiziano Carradori, Carlo Alberto Volta, Giuseppe Cosenza, Aldo De Togni, Cecilia Acuti Martellucci, Giustino Parruti, Lorenzo Mantovani, Lamberto Manzoli
PLOS ONE The prevalence of symptoms in 24,410 adults infected by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19): A systematic review and meta-analysis of 148 studies from 9 countries
June 23, 2020 Michael Grant, Luke Geoghegan, Marc Arbyn, Zakaria Mohammed, Luke McGuinness, Emily Clarke, Ryckie Wade
PLOS ONE Involuntary ambulatory triage during the COVID-19 pandemic – a neurosurgical perspective
June 18, 2020 Harald Krenzlin, Christoph Bettag, Veit Rohde, Florian Ringel, Naureen Keric
PLOS ONE Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients in Beijing, China
June 17, 2020 Zhenhuan Cao, Tongzeng Li, Lianchun Liang, Haibo Wang, Feili Wei, Sha Meng, Miaotian Cai, Yulong Zhang, Hui Xu, Jiaying Zhang, Ronghua Jin
PLOS Medicine Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of pediatric SARS-CoV-2 infections in China: A multicenter case series
June 16, 2020 Che Zhang, Jiaowei Gu, Quanjing Chen, Na Deng, Jingfeng Li, Li Huang, Xihui Zhou
PLOS ONE Maternal and neonatal outcomes associated with COVID-19 infection: A systematic review
June 4, 2020 Vinayak Smith, Densearn Seo, Ritesh Warty, Olivia Payne, Mohamed Salih, Ken Lee Chin, Richard Ofori-Asenso, Sathya Krishnan, Fabricio da Silva Costa, Beverley Vollenhoven, Euan Wallace
PLOS ONE The need of health policy perspective to protect Healthcare Workers during COVID-19 pandemic. A GRADE rapid review on the N95 respirators effectiveness
June 3, 2020 Primiano Iannone, Daniela Coclite, Antonello Napoletano, Alice Josephine Fauci, Laura Iacorossi, Daniela D’Angelo, Cristina Renzi, Giuseppe La Torre, Claudio M. Mastroianni, Silvia Gianola, Greta Castellini
PLOS ONE Influence of the pandemic dissemination of COVID-19 on radiotherapy practice: A flash survey in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
May 21, 2020 Melanie Reuter-Oppermann, Ralf Müller-Polyzou, Holger Wirtz, Anthimos Georgiadis
PLOS ONE Work-related COVID-19 transmission in six Asian countries/areas: A follow-up study
May 19, 2020 Fan-Yun Lan, Chih-Fu Wei, Yu-Tien Hsu, David C. Christiani, Stefanos N. Kales
PLOS ONE Development and validation a nomogram for predicting the risk of severe COVID-19: A multi-center study in Sichuan, China
May 18, 2020 Yiwu Zhou, Yanqi He, Huan Yang, He Yu, Ting Wang, Zhu Chen, Zongan Liang, Rong Yao
PLOS ONE Geo-temporal distribution of 1,688 Chinese healthcare workers infected with COVID-19 in severe conditions—A secondary data analysis
May 14, 2020 Wayne Gao, Mattia Sanna, Min Kuang Tsai, Chi Pang Wen
PLOS ONE Time-to-Death approach in revealing Chronicity and Severity of COVID-19 across the World
May 12, 2020 Vivek Verma, Ramesh K. Vishwakarma, Anita Verma, Dilip C. Nath, Hafiz T. A. Khan
PLOS ONE Prevalence, Severity and Mortality associated with COPD and Smoking in patients with COVID-19: A Rapid Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
May 11, 2020 Jaber S. Alqahtani, Tope Oyelade, Abdulelah M. Aldhahir, Saeed M. Alghamdi, Mater Almehmadi, Abdullah S. Alqahtani, Shumonta Quaderi, Swapna Mandal, John R. Hurst
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Clinical findings of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 in Jiangsu province, China: A retrospective, multi-center study
May 8, 2020 Rui Huang, Li Zhu, Leyang Xue, Longgen Liu, Xuebing Yan, Jian Wang, Biao Zhang, Tianmin Xu, Fang Ji, Yun Zhao, Juan Cheng, Yinling Wang, Huaping Shao, Shuqin Hong, Qi Cao, Chunyang Li, Xiang-an Zhao, Lei Zou, Dawen Sang, Haiyan Zhao, Xinying Guan, Xiaobing Chen, Chun Shan, Juan Xia, Yuxin Chen, Xiaomin Yan, Jie Wei, Chuanwu Zhu, Chao Wu
PLOS ONE Correlation between Heart fatty acid binding protein and severe COVID-19: A case-control study
April 29, 2020 Li Yin, Huaming Mou, Jiang Shao, Ye Zhu, Xiaohua Pang, Jianjun Yang, Jianming Zhang, Wei Shi, Shimei Yu, Hailong Wang
PLOS Pathogens Sex-specific clinical characteristics and prognosis of coronavirus disease-19 infection in Wuhan, China: A retrospective study of 168 severe patients
April 28, 2020 Yifan Meng, Ping Wu, Wanrong Lu, Kui Liu, Ke Ma, Liang Huang, Jiaojiao Cai, Hong Zhang, Yu Qin, Haiying Sun, Wencheng Ding, Lingli Gui, Peng Wu
PLOS ONE Estimating the burden of United States workers exposed to infection or disease: A key factor in containing risk of COVID-19 infection
April 28, 2020 Marissa G. Baker, Trevor K. Peckham, Noah S. Seixas
PLOS ONE Association of radiologic findings with mortality of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
March 19, 2020 Mingli Yuan, Wen Yin, Zhaowu Tao, Weijun Tan, Yi Hu

Modelling, Forecasting, and Surveillance

PLOS ONE Analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Italy: The role of local and interventional factors in the control of the epidemic
November 12, 2020 Daniele Lilleri, Federica Zavaglio, Elisa Gabanti, Giuseppe Gerna, Eloisa Arbustini

Containment measures have been applied in several countries in order to limit the diffusion of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. The scope of this…
PLOS Pathogens Virulence and pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection in rhesus macaques: A nonhuman primate model of COVID-19 progression
November 12, 2020 Huiwen Zheng, Heng Li, Lei Guo, Yan Liang, Jing Li, Xi Wang, Yunguang Hu, Lichun Wang, Yun Liao, Fengmei Yang, Yanyan Li, Shengtao Fan, Dandan Li, Pingfang Cui, Qingling Wang, Haijing Shi, Yanli Chen, Zening Yang, Jinling Yang, Dong Shen, Wei Cun, Xiaofang Zhou, Xingqi Dong, Yunchuan Wang, Yong Chen, Qing Dai, Weihua Jin, Zhanlong He, Qihan Li, Longding Liu

The COVID-19 has emerged as an epidemic, causing severe pneumonia with a high infection rate globally. To better understand the…
PLOS ONE Simulation-free estimation of an individual-based SEIR model for evaluating nonpharmaceutical interventions with an application to COVID-19 in the District of Columbia
November 10, 2020 Daniel K. Sewell, Aaron Miller, for the CDC MInD-Healthcare Program

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmingly demonstrated the need to accurately evaluate the effects of implementing new or altering…
PLOS ONE Forecasting imported COVID-19 cases in South Korea using mobile roaming data
November 4, 2020 Soo Beom Choi, Insung Ahn

As the number of global coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases increases, the number of imported cases is gradually rising. Furthermore,…
PLOS ONE Effect of mitigation measures on the spreading of COVID-19 in hard-hit states in the U.S.
November 3, 2020 Ka-Ming Tam, Nicholas Walker, Juana Moreno

State government-mandated social distancing measures have helped to slow the growth of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Many of…
PLOS ONE Tracing day-zero and forecasting the COVID-19 outbreak in Lombardy, Italy: A compartmental modelling and numerical optimization approach
October 30, 2020 Lucia Russo, Cleo Anastassopoulou, Athanasios Tsakris, Gennaro Nicola Bifulco, Emilio Fortunato Campana, Gerardo Toraldo, Constantinos Siettos

Introduction: Italy became the second epicenter of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic after China, surpassing by far…
PLOS ONE Modeling the load of SARS-CoV-2 virus in human expelled particles during coughing and speaking
October 30, 2020 Yang Wang, Guang Xu, Yue-Wern Huang

Particle size is an essential factor when considering the fate and transport of virus-containing droplets expelled by human, because it…
PLOS ONE A social network model of COVID-19
October 29, 2020 Alexander Karaivanov

I construct a dynamic social-network model of the COVID-19 epidemic which embeds the SIR epidemiological model onto a graph of…
PLOS ONE A discrete-time-evolution model to forecast progress of Covid-19 outbreak
October 29, 2020 Evaldo M. F. Curado, Marco R. Curado

Here we present a discrete-time-evolution model with one day interval to forecast the propagation of Covid-19. The proposed model can be…
PLOS ONE The first 2 months of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Yemen: Analysis of the surveillance data
October 29, 2020 Ali Ahmed Al-Waleedi, Jeremias D. Naiene, Ahmed A. K. Thabet, Adham Dandarawe, Hanan Salem, Nagat Mohammed, Maysa Al Noban, Nasreen Salem Bin-Azoon, Ammar Shawqi, Mohammed Rajamanar, Riyadh Al-Jariri, Mansoor Al Hyubaishi, Lina Khanbari, Najib Thabit, Basel Obaid, Manal Baaees, Denise Assaf, Mikiko Senga, Ismail Mahat Bashir, Nuha Mahmoud, Roy Cosico, Philip Smith, Altaf Musani

Introduction: Yemen was one of the last countries in the world to declare the first case of the pandemic, on 10 April 2020. Fear and…
PLOS ONE Monitoring physical distancing for crowd management: Real-time trajectory and group analysis
October 29, 2020 Caspar A. S. Pouw, Federico Toschi, Frank van Schadewijk, Alessandro Corbetta

Physical distancing, as a measure to contain the spreading of Covid-19, is defining a “new normal”. Unless belonging to a family,…
PLOS ONE Country-level pandemic risk and preparedness classification based on COVID-19 data: A machine learning approach
October 28, 2020 Jordan J. Bird, Chloe M. Barnes, Cristiano Premebida, Anikó Ekárt, Diego R. Faria

In this work we present a three-stage Machine Learning strategy to country-level risk classification based on countries that are reporting…
PLOS ONE Modeling and prediction of the 2019 coronavirus disease spreading in China incorporating human migration data
October 27, 2020 Choujun Zhan, Chi K. Tse, Yuxia Fu, Zhikang Lai, Haijun Zhang

This study integrates the daily intercity migration data with the classic Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Removed (SEIR) model to construct a…
PLOS ONE Assessing concerns for the economic consequence of the COVID-19 response and mental health problems associated with economic vulnerability and negative economic shock in Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom
October 27, 2020 Cristiano Codagnone, Francesco Bogliacino, Camilo Gómez, Rafael Charris, Felipe Montealegre, Giovanni Liva, Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, Frans Folkvord, Giuseppe A. Veltri

Many different countries have been under lockdown or extreme social distancing measures to control the spread of COVID-19. The potentially…
PLOS ONE A mathematical model of COVID-19 transmission in a tertiary hospital and assessment of the effects of different intervention strategies
October 26, 2020 Yae Jee Baek, Taeyong Lee, Yunsuk Cho, Jong Hoon Hyun, Moo Hyun Kim, Yujin Sohn, Jung Ho Kim, Jin Young Ahn, Su Jin Jeong, Nam Su Ku, Joon-Sup Yeom, Jeehyun Lee, Jun Yong Choi

Novel coronavirus (named SARS-CoV-2) can spread widely in confined settings including hospitals, cruise ships, prisons, and places of…
PLOS ONE Game analysis on the evolution of COVID-19 epidemic under the prevention and control measures of the government
October 23, 2020 Jinyu Wei, Li Wang, Xin Yang

In this paper, the interaction strategies and the evolutionary game analysis of the actions taken by the government and the public in the…
PLOS ONE Modeling latent infection transmissions through biosocial stochastic dynamics
October 23, 2020 Bosiljka Tadić, Roderick Melnik

The events of the recent SARS-CoV-2 epidemics have shown the importance of social factors, especially given the large number of…
PLOS ONE The impact of lockdown enforcement during the SARSCoV-2 pandemic on the timing of presentation and early outcomes of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction
October 23, 2020 Ofer Kobo, Roi Efraim, Majdi Saada, Natalia Kofman, Ala Abu Dogosh, Yigal Abramowitz, Doron Aronson, Sa’ar Minha, Ariel Roguin, Simcha R. Meisel

Introduction: Early reports described decreased admissions for acute cardiovascular events during the SarsCoV-2 pandemic. We aimed to…
PLOS ONE Modeling latent infection transmissions through biosocial stochastic dynamics
October 23, 2020 Bosiljka Tadić, Roderick Melnik
PLOS ONE Time-lapse sentinel surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 spread in India
October 22, 2020 Mukesh Thakur, Abhishek Singh, Bheem Dutt Joshi, Avijit Ghosh, Sujeet Kumar Singh, Neha Singh, Lalit Kumar Sharma, Kailash Chandra
PLOS ONE Predictors of self-reported symptoms and testing for COVID-19 in Canada using a nationally representative survey
October 21, 2020 Daphne C. Wu, Teresa Lam, Patrick Brown, Hellen Gelband, Nico Nagelkerke, H. Chaim Birnboim, Angus Reid, on behalf of the Action to Beat Coronavirus in Canada/Action pour Battre le Coronavirus (Ab-C) Study Group , Prabhat Jha
PLOS ONE The confounded crude case-fatality rates (CFR) for COVID-19 hide more than they reveal—a comparison of age-specific and age-adjusted CFRs between seven countries
October 21, 2020 Manfred S. Green, Victoria Peer, Naama Schwartz, Dorit Nitzan
PLOS ONE Development of a multivariate prediction model of intensive care unit transfer or death: A French prospective cohort study of hospitalized COVID-19 patients
October 19, 2020 Yves Allenbach, David Saadoun, Matheus Vieira, Alexandra Hellio, Jacques Boddaert, Hélène Gros, Joe Elie Salem, Matthieu Resche Rigon, Cherifa Menyssa, Lucie Biard, Olivier Benveniste, Patrice Cacoub, on behalf of DIMICOVID , Georgina Maalouf
PLOS ONE On the use of growth models to understand epidemic outbreaks with application to COVID-19 data
October 20, 2020 Chénangnon Frédéric Tovissodé, Bruno Enagnon Lokonon, Romain Glèlè Kakaï
PLOS ONE Decreasing median age of COVID-19 cases in the United States—Changing epidemiology or changing surveillance?
October 15, 2020 Dina N. Greene,Michael L. Jackson,David R. Hillyard,Julio C. Delgado,Robert L. Schmidt
PLOS ONE The first wave of COVID-19 in Malta; a national cross-sectional study
October 15, 2020 Sarah Micallef ,Tonio V. Piscopo,Ramon Casha,Denise Borg,Chantal Vella,Maria-Alessandra Zammit,Janice Borg,Daniela Mallia,James Farrugia,Sarah Marie Vella,Thelma Xerri,Anette Portelli,Manuel Fenech,Claudia Fsadni,Charles Mallia Azzopardi
PLOS ONE Post lockdown COVID-19 seroprevalence and circulation at the time of delivery, France
October 15, 2020 Jérémie Mattern,Christelle Vauloup-Fellous,Hoda Zakaria,Alexandra Benachi,Julie Carrara,Alexandra Letourneau,Nadège Bourgeois-Nicolaos,Daniele De Luca,Florence Doucet-Populaire,Alexandre J. Vivanti
PLOS ONE A bivariate prediction approach for adapting the health care system response to the spread of COVID-19
October 15, 2020 Paolo Berta,Paolo Paruolo,Stefano Verzillo ,Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio
PLOS ONE Assessment of early mitigation measures against COVID-19 in Puerto Rico: March 15-May 15, 2020
October 14, 2020 Miguel Valencia ,José E. Becerra ,Juan C. Reyes ,Kenneth G. Castro
PLOS ONE Spatiotemporal analysis of medical resource deficiencies in the U.S. under COVID-19 pandemic
October 14, 2020 Dexuan Sha,Xin Miao ,Hai Lan,Kathleen Stewart,Shiyang Ruan,Yifei Tian,Yuyang Tian,Chaowei Yang
PLOS ONE Social determinants of COVID-19 mortality at the county level
October 14, 2020 Rebecca Fielding-Miller, Maria Sundaram, Kimberly Brouwer
PLOS ONE State-level variation of initial COVID-19 dynamics in the United States
October 13, 2020 Easton R. White ,Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
PLOS ONE The impact of social distancing on COVID19 spread: State of Georgia case study
October 12, 2020 Pinar Keskinocak, Buse Eylul Oruc, Arden Baxter, John Asplund, Nicoleta Serban
PLOS ONE Cost-effectiveness and return on investment of protecting health workers in low- and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
October 9, 2020 Nicholas Risko ,Kalin Werner,O. Agatha Offorjebe,Andres I. Vecino-Ortiz,Lee A. Wallis,Junaid Razzak
PLOS ONE Estimating weekly excess mortality at sub-national level in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic
October 9, 2020 Marta Blangiardo ,Michela Cameletti,Monica Pirani,Gianni Corsetti,Marco Battaglini,Gianluca Baio
PLOS ONE What do we know about SARS-CoV-2 transmission? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the secondary attack rate and associated risk factors
October 8, 2020 Wee Chian Koh, Lin Naing, Liling Chaw, Muhammad Ali Rosledzana, Mohammad Fathi Alikhan, Sirajul Adli Jamaludin, Faezah Amin, Asiah Omar, Alia Shazli, Matthew Griffith, Roberta Pastore, Justin Wong
PLOS ONE The Global Health Security Index is not predictive of coronavirus pandemic responses among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries
October 7, 2020 Enoch Abbey, Banda Khalifa, Modupe Oduwole, Samuel Ayeh, Richard Nudotor, Emmanuella Salia, Oluwatobi Lasisi, Seth Bennett, Hasiya Yusuf, Allison Agwu, Petros Karakousis
PLOS ONE BCG epidemiology supports its protection against COVID-19? A word of caution
October 7, 2020 Reka Szigeti, Domos Kellermayer, Giedrius Trakimas, Richard Kellermayer
PLOS ONE Prediction and analysis of Corona Virus Disease 2019
October 5, 2020 Yan Hao, Ting Xu, Hongping Hu, Peng Wang, Yanping Bai
PLOS ONE Sampling manholes to home in on SARS-CoV-2 infections
October 5, 2020 Richard Larson, Oded Berman, Mehdi Nourinejad
PLOS ONE Modeling the dynamics of the COVID-19 population in Australia: A probabilistic analysis
October 5, 2020 Ali Eshragh, Saed Alizamir, Peter Howley, Elizabeth Stojanovski
PLOS ONE Web and phone-based COVID-19 syndromic surveillance in Canada: a cross-sectional study
October 5, 2020 Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, Benjamin Rader, Christina Astley, Jared Hawkins, Deepit Bhatia, William Schatten, Todd Lee, Jessica Liu, Noah Ivers, Nathan Stall, Effie Gournis, Ashleigh Tuite, David Fisman, Isaac Bogoch, John Brownstein
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Identifying the outbreak signal of COVID-19 before the response of the traditional disease monitoring system
October 1, 2020 Yaoyao Dai,Jianming Wang
PLOS ONE Estimating the severity of COVID-19: evidence from the Italian epicenter
October 5, 2020 Paolo Buonanno, Sergio Galletta, Marcello Puca
PLOS ONE COVID-19 infections and outcomes in a live registry of heart failure patients across an integrated health care system
October 5, 2020 César Caraballo, Megan McCullough, Michael A. Fuery, Fouad Chouairi, Craig Keating, Neal G. Ravindra, P. Elliott Miller, Maricar Malinis, Nitu Kashyap, Allen Hsiao, F. Perry Wilson, Jeptha P. Curtis, Matthew Grant, Eric J. Velazquez, Nihar R. Desai, Tariq Ahmad
PLOS ONE Effectiveness of the non-pharmaceutical public health interventions against COVID-19; a protocol of a systematic review and realist review
September 29, 2020 Shabnam Iezadi, Saber Azami-Aghdash, Akbar Ghiasi, Aziz Rezapour, Hamid Pourasghari, Fariba Pashazadeh, Kamal Gholipour
PLOS ONE Routine screening for SARS CoV-2 in unselected pregnant women at delivery
September 29, 2020 Pilar Díaz-Corvillón, Max Mönckeberg, Antonia Barros, Sebastián E. Illanes, Arturo Soldati, Jyh-Kae Nien, Manuel Schepeler, Javier Caradeux
PLOS ONE Global convergence of COVID-19 basic reproduction number and estimation from early-time SIR dynamics
September 24, 2020 Gabriel Katul, Assaad Mrad, Sara Bonetti, Gabriele Manoli, Anthony Parolari
PLOS ONE The impact of social distancing and public behavior changes on COVID-19 transmission dynamics in the Republic of Korea
September 24, 2020 Soyoung Kim, Youngsuk Ko, Yae-Jean Kim, Eunok Jung
PLOS ONE Significant Relaxation of SARS-CoV-2-Targeted Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions May Result in Profound Mortality: A New York State Modelling Study
September 24, 2020 Benjamin Hoffman
PLOS ONE City size and the spreading of COVID-19 in Brazil
September 23, 2020 Haroldo Ribeiro, Andre S. Sunahara, Jack Sutton, Matjaž Perc, Quentin S. Hanley
PLOS ONE Multiple drivers of the COVID-19 spread: the roles of climate, international mobility, and region-specific conditions
September 23, 2020 Yasuhiro Kubota, Takayuki Shiono, Buntarou Kusumoto, Junichi Fujinuma
PLOS ONE Preliminary estimation of temporal and spatiotemporal dynamic measures of COVID-19 transmission in Thailand
September 24, 2020 Chawarat Rotejanaprasert, Saranath Lawpoolsri, Wirichada Pan-ngum, Richard Maude
PLOS ONE Demographic, jurisdictional, and spatial effects on social distancing in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic
September 22, 2020 Rajesh Narayanan, James Nordlund, R. Kelley Pace, Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara
PLOS ONE Effects of temperature and humidity on the spread of COVID-19: A systematic review
September 18, 2020 Paulo Mecenas, Renata Travassos da Rosa Moreira Bastos, Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto, David Normando
PLOS ONE Assessing the spread of COVID-19 in Brazil: Mobility, morbidity and social vulnerability
September 18, 2020 Flávio Coelho, Raquel Lana, Oswaldo Cruz, Daniel Villela, Leonardo Bastos, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Jessica Davis, Alessandro Vespignani, Claudia Codeço, Marcelo Gomes
PLOS ONE Assessing the potential impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy
September 17, 2020 Guillaume Marois, Raya Muttarak, Sergei Scherbov
PLOS ONE Impact of COVID-19 epidemic curtailment strategies in selected Indian states: an analysis by reproduction number and doubling time with incidence modelling
May 17, 2020 Arun Mitra, Abhijit Pakhare, Adrija Roy, Ankur Joshi
PLOS ONE COVID-19 Pandemic and Farr’s Law: a global comparison and prediction of outbreak acceleration and deceleration rates
September 17, 2020 Kevin Pacheco-Barrios, Alejandra Cardenas-Rojas, Stefano Giannoni-Luza, Felipe Fregni
PLOS ONE The propagation of economic impacts through supply chains:The case of a mega-city lockdown to prevent the spread ofCOVID-19
September 15, 2020 Hiroyasu Inoue, Yasuyuki Todo
PLOS ONE COVID-19 mortality dynamics: The future modelled as a (mixture of) past(s)
September 11, 2020 Samuel Soubeyrand, Mélina Ribaud, Virgile Baudrot, Denis Allard, Denys Pommeret, Lionel Roques
PLOS ONE A synthetic indicator on the impact of COVID-19 on the community’s health
September 11, 2020 Antonio Villar, Carmen Herrero
PLOS ONE Phase transitions and control measures for network epidemics caused by infections with presymptomatic, asymptomatic, and symptomatic stages
September 10, 2020 Benjamin Braun, Basak Taraktas, Brian Beckage, Jane Molofsky
PLOS ONE Modeling the spread of COVID-19 in Germany: Early assessment and possible scenarios
September 4, 2020 Maria Vittoria Barbarossa ,Jan Fuhrmann,Jan H. Meinke,Stefan Krieg,Hridya Vinod Varma,Noemi Castelletti,Thomas Lippert
PLOS ONE Enhanced Contact Investigations for Nine Early Travel-Related Cases of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States
September 2, 2020 Rachel Burke, Sharon Balter, Emily Barnes, Vaughn Barry, Karri Bartlett, Karlyn Beer, Isaac Benowitz, Holly Biggs, Hollianne Bruce, Jonathan Bryant-Genevier, Jordan Cates, Kevin Chatham-Stephens, Nora Chea, Howard Chiou, Demian Christiansen, Victoria Chu, Shauna Clark, Sara Cody, Max Cohen, Erin Conners, Vishal Dasari, Patrick Dawson, Traci DeSalvo, Matthew Donahue, Alissa Dratch, Lindsey Duca, Jeffrey Duchin, Jonathan Dyal, Leora Feldstein, Marty Fenstersheib, Marc Fischer, Rebecca Fisher, Chelsea Foo, Brandi Freeman-Ponder, Alicia Fry, Jessica Gant, Romesh Gautom, Isaac Ghinai, Prabhu Gounder, Cheri Grigg, Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, Aron Hall, George Han, Thomas Haupt, Michelle Holshue, Jennifer Hunter, Mireille Ibrahim, Max Jacobs, M. Jarashow, Kiran Joshi, Talar Kamali, Vance Kawakami, Moon Kim, Hannah Kirking, Amanda Kita-Yarbro, Rachel Klos, Miwako Kobayashi, Anna Kocharian, Misty Lang, Jennifer Layden, Eva Leidman, Scott Lindquist, Stephen Lindstrom, Ruth Link-Gelles, Mariel Marlow, Claire Mattison, Nancy McClung, Tristan McPherson, Lynn Mello, Claire Midgley, Shannon Novosad, Megan Patel, Kristen Pettrone, Satish Pillai, Ian Pray, Heather Reese, Heather Rhodes, Susan Robinson, Melissa Rolfes, Janell Routh, Rachel Rubin, Sarah Rudman, Denny Russell, Sarah Scott, Varun Shetty, Sarah Smith-Jeffcoat, Elizabeth Soda, Christopher Spitters, Bryan Stierman, Rebecca Sunenshine, Dawn Terashita, Elizabeth Traub, Grace Vahey, Jennifer Verani, Megan Wallace, Matthew Westercamp, Jonathan Wortham, Amy Xie, Anna Yousaf, Matthew Zahn
PLOS ONE Course of the first month of the COVID 19 outbreak in the New York State counties
September 2, 2020 Anca Radulescu
PLOS ONE COVID-19 pandemics modeling with modified determinist SEIR, social distancing, and age stratification. The effect of vertical confinement and release in Brazil.
September 2, 2020 Wladimir Lyra, José-Dias do Nascimento, Jaber Belkhiria, Leandro de Almeida, Pedro Paulo Chrispim, Ion de Andrade
PLOS ONE A novel strategy for community screening of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19): sample pooling method
August 28, 2020 Khai Lone Lim, Nur Alia Johari, Siew Tung Wong, Loke Tim Khaw, Boon Keat Tan, Kok Keong Chan, Shew Fung Wong, Wan Ling Elaine Chan, Nurul Hanis Ramzi, Patricia Kim Chooi Lim, Sulaiman Lokman Hakim, Kenny Voon
PLOS ONE City Lockdown and Nationwide Intensive Community Screening Are Effective In Controlling the COVID-19 Epidemic: Analysis Based on A Modified SIR Model
August 28, 2020 Tailai Peng, Xinhao Liu, Hefeng Ni, Zhe Cui, Lei Du
PLOS ONE An epidemiological model to aid decision-making for covid-19 control in Sri Lanka
August 27, 2020 Dileepa Ediriweera, Nilanthi de Silva, Gathsaurie Malavige, Hithanadura de Silva
PLOS ONE Predicting and analyzing the COVID-19 epidemic in China: based on SEIRD, LSTM and GWR models
August 27, 2020 Fenglin Liu, Jie Wang, Jiawen Liu, Yue Li, Dagong Liu, Junliang Tong, Zhuoqun Li, Dan Yu, Yifan Fan, Xiaohui Bi, Xueting Zhang, Steven Mo
PLOS ONE Simulation of the COVID-19 epidemic on the social network of Slovenia: estimating the intrinsic forecast uncertainty
August 27, 2020 Žiga Zaplotnik, Aleksandar Gavrić, Luka Medic
PLOS ONE Simulating the progression of the COVID-19 disease in Cameroon using SIR models
August 25, 2020 Ulrich Nguemdjo, Freeman Meno, Audric Dongfack, Bruno Ventelou
PLOS ONE Spatial and temporal regularization to estimate COVID-19 Reproduction Number R(t): Promoting piecewise smoothness via convex optimization
August 20, 2020 Patrice Abry, Nelly Pustelnik, Stéphane Roux, Pablo Jensen, Patrick Flandrin, Rémi Gribonval, Charles-Gérard Lucas, Éric Guichard, Pierre Borgnat, Nicolas Garnier
PLOS ONE Mask or No Mask for COVID-19: a Public Health and Market Study
August 14, 2020 Tom Li, Yan Liu, Man Li, Xiaoning Qian, Susie Dai
PLOS ONE A simulation modelling toolkit for organising outpatient dialysis services during the COVID-19 pandemic
August 13, 2020 Michael Allen, Amir Bhanji, Jonas willemsen, Steven Dudfield, Stuart Logan, Thomas Monks
PLOS ONE Clinical academic research in the time of Corona: a simulation study in England and a call for action
August 13, 2020 Amitava Banerjee, Michail Katsoulis, Alvina Lai, Laura Pasea, Thomas Treibel, Charlotte Manisty, Spiros Denaxas, Giovanni Quarta, Harry Hemingway, João Cavalcante, Mahdad Noursadeghi, James Moon
PLOS Medicine Social distancing to slow the US COVID-19 epidemic: Longitudinal pretest–posttest comparison group study
August 11, 2020 Mark J. Siedner, Guy Harling, Zahra Reynolds, Rebecca F. Gilbert, Sebastien Haneuse, Atheendar S. Venkataramani, Alexander C. Tsai
PLOS ONE A Fractal kinetics SI model can explain the dynamics of COVID-19 epidemics
August 11, 2020 Kosmas Kosmidis, Panos Macheras
PLOS ONE Modeling the role of asymptomatics in infection spread with application to SARS-CoV-2
August 11, 2020 Hana Dobrovolny
PLOS ONE Monitoring Italian COVID-19 spread by a forced SEIRD model
August 11, 2020 Elena Loli Piccolomini, Fabiana Zama
PLOS ONE Feasibility study of mitigation and suppression strategies for controlling COVID-19 outbreaks in London and Wuhan
August 6, 2020 Po Yang, Jun Qi, Shuhao Zhang, Xulong Wang, Gaoshan Bi, Yun Yang, Bin Sheng, Geng Yang
PLOS ONE Change in global transmission rates of COVID-19 through May 6 2020
August 11, 2020 Ethan Obie Romero-Severson, Nick Hengartner, Grant Meadors, Ruian Ke
PLOS ONE Bayesian Inference of COVID-19 Spreading Rates in South Africa
August 11, 2020 Rendani Mbuvha, Tshilidzi Marwala
PLOS ONE A data-driven model to describe and forecast the dynamics of COVID-19 transmission
August 11, 2020 Henrique Mohallem Paiva, Rubens Junqueira Magalhães Afonso, Igor Luppi de Oliveira, Gabriele Fernandes Garcia
PLOS ONE Enacting national social distancing policies corresponds with dramatic reduction in COVID19 infection rates
August 11, 2020 Daniel J. McGrail, Jianli Dai, Kathleen M. McAndrews, Raghu Kalluri
PLOS ONE Data-Driven Study of the COVID-19 Pandemic via Age-Structured Modelling and Prediction of the Health System Failure in Brazil amid Diverse Intervention Strategies
July 30, 2020 Askery Canabarro, Elayne Tenório, Renato Martins, Laís Martins, Samuraí Brito, Rafael Chaves
PLOS ONE The macroecology of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Anthropocene
July 30, 2020 Piotr Skórka, Beata Grzywacz, Dawid Moroń, Magdalena Lenda
PLOS ONE Estimation of COVID-19 spread curves integrating global data and borrowing information
July 29, 2020 Se Yoon Lee, Bowen Lei, Bani Mallick
PLOS Medicine Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 mortality during the early stages of an epidemic: A modeling study in Hubei, China, and six regions in Europe
July 28, 2020 Anthony Hauser, Michel J. Counotte, Charles C. Margossian, Garyfallos Konstantinoudis, Nicola Low, Christian L. Althaus, Julien Riou
PLOS ONE Assessment of the outbreak risk, mapping and infection behavior of COVID-19: Application of the autoregressive integrated-moving average (ARIMA) and polynomial models
July 28, 2020 Hamid Reza Pourghasemi, Soheila Pouyan, Zakariya Farajzadeh, Nitheshnirmal Sadhasivam, Bahram Heidari, Sedigheh Babaei, John P. Tiefenbacher
PLOS ONE Modeling strict age-targeted mitigation strategies for COVID-19
July 24, 2020 Maria Chikina, Wesley Pegden
PLOS ONE Quantifying early COVID-19 outbreak transmission in South Africa and exploring vaccine efficacy scenarios
July 24, 2020 Zindoga Mukandavire, Farai Nyabadza, Noble Malunguza, Diego Cuadros, Tinevimbo Shiri, Godfrey Musuka
PLOS ONE Reproduction ratio and growth rates: Measures for an unfolding pandemic
July 23, 2020 Maíra Aguiar, Joseba Bidaurrazaga Van-Dierdonck, Nico Stollenwerk
PLOS Medicine Impact of self-imposed prevention measures and short-term government-imposed social distancing on mitigating and delaying a COVID-19 epidemic: A modelling study
July 28, 2020 Alexandra Teslya, Thi Mui Pham, Noortje G. Godijk, Mirjam E. Kretzschmar, Martin C. J. Bootsma, Ganna Rozhnova
PLOS ONE Estimation of time-varying reproduction numbers underlyingepidemiological processes: a new statistical tool for the COVID-19pandemic
July 21, 2020 Hyokyoung Hong, Yi Li
PLOS ONE Assessing the Hospital Surge Capacity of the Kenyan Health System in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic
July 20, 2020 Edwine Barasa, Paul Ouma, Emelda Okiro
PLOS Medicine Tracing and analysis of 288 early SARS-CoV-2 infections outside China: A modeling study
July 17, 2020 Francesco Pinotti, Laura Di Domenico, Ernesto Ortega, Marco Mancastroppa, Giulia Pullano, Eugenio Valdano, Pierre-Yves Boëlle, Chiara Poletto, Vittoria Colizza
PLOS ONE Modeling future spread of infections via mobile geolocation data and population dynamics. An application to COVID-19 in Brazil.
July 16, 2020 Pedro Peixoto, Diego Marcondes, Cláudia Peixoto, Sérgio Oliva
PLOS ONE Prediction of COVID-19 Spreading Profiles in South Korea, Italy and Iran by Data-Driven Coding
July 6, 2020 Choujun Zhan, Chi Tse, Zhikang Lai, Tianyong Hao, Jingjing Su
PLOS ONE Mobility restrictions for the control of epidemics: When do they work?
July 6, 2020 Baltazar Espinoza, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Charles Perrings
PLOS Computational Biology Estimation of country-level basic reproductive ratios for novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19) using synthetic contact matrices
July 3, 2020 Joe Hilton, Matt Keeling
PLOS ONE Outbreak analysis with a logistic growth model shows COVID-19 suppression dynamics in China
July 3, 2020 Yi Zou, Stephen Pan, Peng Zhao, Lei Han, Xiaoxiang Wang, Lia Hemerik, Johannes Knops, Wopke van der Werf
PLOS ONE Modeling quarantine during epidemics and mass-testing using drones
July 3, 2020 Leonid Sedov, Alexander Krasnochub, Valentin Polishchuk
PLOS ONE Estimating the prevalence and risk of COVID-19 among international travelers and evacuees of Wuhan through modeling and case reports
July 3, 2020 George Luo, Michael L. McHenry, John J. Letterio
PLOS Medicine The potential impact of COVID-19 in refugee camps in Bangladesh and beyond: A modeling study
June 16, 2020 Shaun Truelove, Orit Abrahim, Chiara Altare, Stephen Lauer, Kyra Grantz, Andrew Azman, Paul Spiegel
PLOS ONE A novel cohort analysis approach to determining the case fatality rate of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases
June 15, 2020 Charit Samyak Narayanan
PLOS ONE Statistical analysis of the impact of environmental temperature on the exponential growth rate of cases infected by COVID-19
June 9, 2020 George Livadiotis
PLOS ONE Herd immunity and a vaccination game: An experimental study
May 14, 2020 Wooyoung Lim, Pengfei Zhang
PLOS ONE Forecasting the novel coronavirus COVID-19
April 6, 2020 Fotios Petropoulos, Spyros Makridakis
PLOS ONE Data-based analysis, modelling and forecasting of the COVID-19 outbreak
April 6, 2020 Cleo Anastassopoulou, Lucia Russo, Athanasios Tsakris, Constantinos Siettos

Molecular and Genetic Studies

PLOS ONE Genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 and clinical, epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 patients in Hanoi, Vietnam
November 17, 2020 Tam Thi Nguyen, Thach Ngoc Pham, Trang Dinh Van, Trang Thu Nguyen, Diep Thi Ngoc Nguyen, Hoa Nguyen Minh Le, John-Sebastian Eden, Rebecca J. Rockett, Thuong Thi Hong Nguyen, Bich Thi Ngoc Vu, Giang Van Tran, Tan Van Le, Dominic E. Dwyer, H. Rogier van Doorn, on behalf of the OUCRU COVID-19 Research Group

A second cluster of COVID-19 cases imported from Europe occured in Vietnam from early March 2020. We describe 44 SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR…
PLOS ONE Association of SARS-CoV-2 genomic load trends with clinical status in COVID-19: A retrospective analysis from an academic hospital center in New York City
November 17, 2020 Ioannis M. Zacharioudakis, Fainareti N. Zervou, Prithiv J. Prasad, Yongzhao Shao, Atreyee Basu, Kenneth Inglima, Scott A. Weisenberg, Maria E. Aguero-Rosenfeld

The Infectious Diseases Society of America has identified the use of SARS-CoV-2 genomic load for prognostication purposes as a key…
PLOS ONE Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 specific IgG antibodies in District Srinagar, northern India – A cross-sectional study
November 11, 2020 S. Muhammad Salim Khan, Mariya Amin Qurieshi, Inaamul Haq, Sabhiya Majid, Arif Akbar Bhat, Sahila Nabi, Nisar Ahmad Ganai, Nazia Zahoor, Auqfeen Nisar, Iqra Nisar Chowdri, Tanzeela Bashir Qazi, Rafiya Kousar, Abdul Aziz Lone, Iram Sabah, Shahroz Nabi, Ishtiyaq Ahmad Sumji, Misbah Ferooz Kawoosa, Shifana Ayoub

Background: Prevalence of IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 infection provides essential information for deciding disease prevention and…
PLOS ONE Large scale genomic analysis of 3067 SARS-CoV-2 genomes reveals a clonal geo-distribution and a rich genetic variations of hotspots mutations
November 10, 2020 Meriem Laamarti, Tarek Alouane, Souad Kartti, M. W. Chemao-Elfihri, Mohammed Hakmi, Abdelomunim Essabbar, Mohamed Laamarti, Haitam Hlali, Houda Bendani, Nassma Boumajdi, Oussama Benhrif, Loubna Allam, Naima El Hafidi, Rachid El Jaoudi, Imane Allali, Nabila Marchoudi, Jamal Fekkak, Houda Benrahma, Chakib Nejjari, Saaid Amzazi, Lahcen Belyamani, Azeddine Ibrahimi

In late December 2019, an emerging viral infection COVID-19 was identified in Wuhan, China, and became a global pandemic. Characterization…
PLOS ONE Static all-atom energetic mappings of the SARS-Cov-2 spike protein and dynamic stability analysis of “Up” versus “Down” protomer states
November 10, 2020 Michael H. Peters, Oscar Bastidas, Daniel S. Kokron, Christopher E. Henze

The SARS-CoV-2 virion responsible for the current world-wide pandemic COVID-19 has a characteristic Spike protein (S) on its surface that…
PLOS ONE A cohort study of 676 patients indicates D-dimer is a critical risk factor for the mortality of COVID-19
November 9, 2020 Yongsheng Huang, Xiaoyu Lyu, Dan Li, Lin Wang, Yujun Wang, Wenbin Zou, Yingxin Wei, Xiaowei Wu

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has recently become a public emergency and a worldwide pandemic. However, the information on the risk…
PLOS ONE Recommendations for sample pooling on the Cepheid GeneXpert^® system using the Cepheid Xpert^® Xpress SARS-CoV-2 assay
November 9, 2020 Michael G. Becker, Tracy Taylor, Sandra Kiazyk, Dana R. Cabiles, Adrienne F. A. Meyers, Paul A. Sandstrom

The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has resulted in a global testing supply shortage. In response,…
PLOS ONE Variant analysis of 1,040 SARS-CoV-2 genomes
November 5, 2020 Eric C. Rouchka, Julia H. Chariker, Donghoon Chung

The severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral genome is an RNA virus consisting of approximately 30,000 bases. As…
PLOS Pathogens The role of cysteine peptidases in coronavirus cell entry and replication: The therapeutic potential of cathepsin inhibitors
November 2, 2020 Anja Pišlar, Ana Mitrović, Jerica Sabotič, Urša Pečar Fonović, Milica Perišić Nanut, Tanja Jakoš, Emanuela Senjor, Janko Kos

Over the last 2 decades, several coronaviruses (CoVs) have crossed the species barrier into humans, causing highly prevalent and severe…
PLOS ONE Detection of SARS-CoV-2 from raw patient samples by coupled high temperature reverse transcription and amplification
November 2, 2020 Johannes W. P. Kuiper, Timo Baade, Marcel Kremer, Ramon Kranaster, Linda Irmisch, Marcus Schuchmann, Johannes Zander, Andreas Marx, Christof R. Hauck

SARS-CoV-2 is spreading globally with unprecedented consequences for modern societies. The early detection of infected individuals is a…
PLOS ONE SARS-CoV-2 transmission routes from genetic data: A Danish case study
October 29, 2020 Andreas Bluhm, Matthias Christandl, Fulvio Gesmundo, Frederik Ravn Klausen, Laura Mančinska, Vincent Steffan, Daniel Stilck França, Albert H. Werner

Background: The first cases of COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus were reported in China in December 2019. The disease has since…
PLOS ONE Bioinformatic characterization of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, the entry receptor for SARS-CoV-2
October 28, 2020 Harlan Barker, Seppo Parkkila

The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 epidemic a public health emergency of international concern on March 11th, 2020, and…
PLOS ONE Antibody kinetics and serologic profiles of SARS-CoV-2 infection using two serologic assays
October 22, 2020 Oh Joo Kweon, Yong Kwan Lim, Hye Ryoun Kim, Min-Chul Kim, Seong-Ho Choi, Jin-Won Chung, Mi-Kyung Lee
PLOS ONE Potential bioactive glycosylated flavonoids as SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors: A molecular docking and simulation studies
October 15, 2020 Sabri Ahmed Cherrak ,Hafida Merzouk,Nassima Mokhtari-Soulimane
PLOS ONE Capillary whole-blood IgG-IgM COVID-19 self-test as a serological screening tool for SARS-CoV-2 infection adapted to the general public
October 15, 2020 Serge Tonen-Wolyec,Raphael Dupont,Salomon Batina-Agasa,Marie-Pierre Hayette,Laurent Bélec
PLOS ONE Design of novel multiepitope constructs-based peptide vaccine against the structural S, N and M proteins of human COVID-19 using immunoinformatics analysis
October 15, 2020 Niloofar Khairkhah,Mohammad Reza Aghasadeghi,Ali Namvar ,Azam Bolhassani
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Air and surface contamination in non-health care settings among 641 environmental specimens of 39 COVID-19 cases
October 9, 2020 Lei Luo, Dan Liu, Hao Zhang, Zhihao Li, Ruonan Zhen, Xiru Zhang, Huaping Xie, Weiqi Song, Jie Liu, Qingmei Huang, Jingwen Chen, Xingfen Yang, Zongqiu Chen, Chen Mao
PLOS Computational Biology Use of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Modeling Analysis
October 8, 2020 Mehrshad Sadria, Anita Layton
PLOS Biology Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA by multiplex RT-qPCR
October 7, 2020 Eriko Kudo, Benjamin Israelow, Chantal Vogels, Peiwen Lu, Anne Wyllie, Maria Tokuyama, Arvind Venkataraman, Doug Brackney, Isabel Ott, Mary Petrone, Rebecca Earnest, Sarah Lapidus, M. Catherine Muenker, Adam Moore, Arnau Casanovas-Massana, Saad Omer, Charles Dela Cruz, Shelli Farhadian, Albert Ko, Nathan Grubaugh, Akiko Iwasaki
PLOS ONE Biochemical screening for SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors
October 6, 2020 Camila Coelho, Gloria Gallo, Claudia Campos, Leon Hardy, Martin Würtele
PLOS ONE Correlation of ELISA method with three other automated serological tests for the detection of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies
October 6, 2020 Nguyen Nguyen, Manohar Mutnal, Richard Gomez, Huy Pham, Lam Nguyen, William Koss, Arundhati Rao, Alejandro Arroliga, Liping Wang, Dapeng Wang, Yinan Hua, Priscilla Powell, Li Chen, Colin McCormack, Walter Linz, Amin Mohammad
PLOS ONE Similarity between mutation spectra in hypermutated genomes of rubella virus and in SARS-CoV-2 genomes accumulated during the COVID-19 pandemic
October 2, 2020 Dmitry Gordenin, Leszek Klimczak, Thomas Randall, Natalie Saini, Jian-Liang Li
PLOS ONE In-silico drug repurposing study predicts the combination of pirfenidone and melatonin as a promising candidate therapy to reduce SARS-CoV-2 infection progression and respiratory distress caused by cytokine storm
October 2, 2020 Laura Artigas, Mireia Coma, Pedro Matos-Filipe, Joaquim Aguirre-Plans, Judith Farrés, Raquel Valls, Narcis Fernandez-Fuentes, Juan de la Haba-Rodriguez, Alex Olvera, Jose Barbera, Rafael Morales, Baldo Oliva, Jose Mas
PLOS ONE In-silico Design of a Potential Inhibitor of SARS-CoV‑2 S Protein.
October 1, 2020 Grijesh Jaiswal, Veerendra Kumar
PLOS Computational Biology IL6-mediated HCoV-host interactome regulatory network and GO/Pathway enrichment analysis
September 30, 2020 Gianfranco Politano, Alfredo Benso
PLOS ONE Evaluation of pooled sample analysis strategy in expediting case detection in areas with emerging outbreaks of COVID-19: A pilot study
September 22, 2020 Debasis Biswas, Anirudh Singh, Ram Nema, Ankur Joshi, Prem Shankar, Shashwati Nema, Arun Raghuwanshi, Chitra Patankar, Bijina Mathew, Arti Shrivas, Ritu Pandey, Ranu Tripathi, Sarman Singh