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Economic evaluation of COVID-19 rapid antigen screening programs in the workplace
BMC Medicine, 2022 Background Diagnostic testing has been pivotal in detecting SARS-CoV-2 infections and reducing transmission through the isolation of positive cases. We quantified the value of implementing frequent, rapid antigen (RA) testing in the workplace to identify
Thomas N. Vilches +4 more
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Accelerated vaccine rollout is imperative to mitigate highly transmissible COVID-19 variants
EClinicalMedicine, 2021 Background: More contagious variants of SARS-CoV-2 have emerged around the world, sparking concerns about impending surge in cases and severe outcomes. Despite the development of effective vaccines, rollout has been slow.
Pratha Sah +6 more
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The Lancet Regional Health. Americas, 2022 Summary: Background: The fourth wave of COVID-19 pandemic peaked in the US at 160,000 daily cases, concentrated primarily in southern states. As the Delta variant has continued to spread, we evaluated the impact of accelerated vaccination on reducing ...
Thomas N. Vilches +7 more
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The Lancet Regional Health. Americas, 2023 Summary: Background: Uptake of the COVID-19 bivalent booster vaccine (targeting the original SARS-CoV-2 strain and subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 of the Omicron variant) among eligible residents of New York City (NYC) has been modest and declining. Assessing
Abhishek Pandey +6 more
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Lives saved and hospitalizations averted by COVID-19 vaccination in New York City: a modeling study
The Lancet Regional Health. Americas, 2022 Summary: Background: Following the start of COVID-19 vaccination in New York City (NYC), cases have declined over 10-fold from the outbreak peak in January 2020, despite the emergence of highly transmissible variants.
Affan Shoukat +8 more
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The impact of mask-wearing and shelter-in-place on COVID-19 outbreaks in the United States
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020 Objectives: A hasty reopening has led to a resurgence of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States (US). We aimed to quantify the impact of several public health measures including non-medical mask-wearing, shelter-in-place, and ...
Kevin Zhang +4 more
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Agent-Based Models and Individualism: Is the World Agent-Based? [PDF]
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2000 Agent-based models (ABMs) are an increasingly popular tool in the social sciences. This trend seems likely to continue, so that they will become widely used in geography and in urban and regional planning. We present an overview of examples of these models in the life sciences, economics, planning, sociology, and archaeology.
David O'Sullivan, Mordechai Haklay
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Dynamics of HSV-2 infection with a therapeutic vaccine
Heliyon, 2020 Herpes-Simplex Virus type 2 (HSV-2) is a lifelong infection, which has infected over 400 million individuals aged 15-49 years, worldwide. While the disease can be treated with episodic and suppressive antiviral drugs to reduce the rate of recurrence (i.e.
Ezio Venturino +2 more
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Optimal COVID-19 quarantine and testing strategies
Nature Communications, 2021 Safely reducing the necessary duration of quarantine for COVID-19 could lessen the economic impacts of the pandemic. Here, the authors demonstrate that testing on exit from quarantine is more effective than testing on entry, and can enable quarantine to ...
Chad R. Wells +8 more
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Agent Based Models of Polymicrobial Biofilms and the Microbiome—A Review
Microorganisms, 2021 The human microbiome has been a focus of intense study in recent years. Most of the living organisms comprising the microbiome exist in the form of biofilms on mucosal surfaces lining our digestive, respiratory, and genito-urinary tracts.
Sherli Koshy-Chenthittayil +5 more
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