SARS-CoV-2 Attack Rate and Population Immunity in Southern New England, March 2020 to May 2021. Author(s): Tran TN, Wikle NB, Yang F, Inam H, Leighow S, Gentilesco B, Chan P, Albert E, Strong ER, Pritchard JR, Hanage WP, Hanks EM, Crawford FW, Boni MF|Journal: JAMA Netw Open|PMID: 35616938| May 2022 In emergency epidemic and pandemic settings, public health agencies need to be able to measure the population-level attack rate, defined…
Variant abundance estimation for SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater using RNA-Seq quantification. Author(s): Baaijens JA, Zulli A, Ott IM, Petrone ME, Alpert T, Fauver JR, Kalinich CC, Vogels CBF, Breban MI, Duvallet C, McElroy K, Ghaeli N, Imakaev M, Mckenzie-Bennett M, Robison K, Plocik A, Schilling R, Pierson M, Littlefield R, Spencer M, Simen BB, Yale SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Surveillance Initiative., Hanage WP, Grubaugh ND, Peccia J, Baym M|Journal: medRxiv|PMID: 34494031| September 2021 Effectively monitoring the spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants is essential to efforts to counter the ongoing pandemic. Wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2…