ArticleGlobal epidemiology2020
On the importance of early testing even when imperfect in a pandemic such as COVID-19.
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- Race, Ethnicity, and Delayed Time to COVID-19 Testing Among US Health Care Workers.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- A Retrospective Analysis of Hyperlipidemia and COVID-19 Outcomes Investigated in a Rural Midwestern Population.Cureus · 2023Article
- Proportion of Respiratory Syncytial Virus, SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A/B, and Adenovirus Cases via Rapid Tests in the Community during Winter 2023-A Cross Sectional Study.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A Nationally Representative Survey of COVID-19 in Pakistan, 2021-2022.Emerging infectious diseases · 2022Article
- The Impact of Testing Capacity and Compliance With Isolation on COVID-19: A Mathematical Modeling Study.AJPM focus · 2022Article
- Validation of a rapid antigen test as a screening tool for SARS-CoV-2 infection in asymptomatic populations. Sensitivity, specificity and predictive values.EClinicalMedicine · 2021Article
- SARS-CoV-2 testing in North Carolina: Racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities.Health & place · 2021Article
- Back to WHAT? The role of research ethics in pandemic times.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2021Article
- Public's understanding of swab test results for SARS-CoV-2: an online behavioural experiment during the April 2020 lockdown.BMJ open · 2021Article
- The first casualty of an epidemic is evidence.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2020Article
- Protocol for a national probability survey using home specimen collection methods to assess prevalence and incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection and antibody response.Annals of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Laboratory Assay Evaluation Demystified: A Review of Key Factors Influencing Interpretation of Test Results Using Different Assays for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Diagnosis.Laboratory medicine · 2020Review
- Towards reduction in bias in epidemic curves due to outcome misclassification through Bayesian analysis of time-series of laboratory test results: case study of COVID-19 in Alberta, Canada and Philadelphia, USA.BMC medical research methodology · 2020Article
- It can be dangerous to take epidemic curves of COVID-19 at face value.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2020Article
- Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA and Antibodies in Diverse Samples: Protocol to Validate the Sufficiency of Provider-Observed, Home-Collected Blood, Saliva, and Oropharyngeal Samples.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2020Article
- Towards reduction in bias in epidemic curves due to outcome misclassification through Bayesian analysis of time-series of laboratory test results: Case study of COVID-19 in Alberta, Canada and Philadelphia, USA.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2020Article
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- All-cause excess mortality and COVID-19-related deaths in Iran.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2020Article
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