2023

A follow up study of cycle threshold values of SARS-CoV-2 in Hunan Province, China

Since the epidemic of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2), many governments have used reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to detect the virus. However, there are fewer measures of CT values …

Analysis of Factors Influencing the Clinical Severity of Omicron and Delta Variants.

The Omicron variant is the dominant strain circulating globally, and studies have shown that Omicron cases have milder symptoms than Delta cases. This study aimed to analyze the factors that affect the clinical severity of Omicron and Delta variants, …

Inactivated vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic COVID-19 in Fujian, China during the Omicron BA.2 outbreak.

OBJECTIVE: More than 90% of the Chinese population have completed 2 doses of inactivated COVID-19 vaccines in Mainland China. However, after China government abandoned strict control measures, many breakthrough infections appeared, and vaccine …

Contact pattern, current immune barrier, and pathogen virulence determines the optimal strategy of further vaccination

**Background:** The current outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 has caused a serious disease burden worldwide. Vaccines are an important factor to sustain the epidemic. Although with a relatively high-vaccination worldwide, the decay of …

Model-based risk assessment of dengue fever transmission in Xiamen City, China.

BACKGROUND: Quantitative assessment of the risk of local transmission from imported dengue cases makes a great challenge to the development of public health in China. The purpose of this study is to observe the risk of mosquito-borne transmission in …

Effect of online and offline social network group clusters on life satisfaction across age groups.

BACKGROUND: Positive social relationships are critical for better subjective well-being across ages. Future research will benefit from examining how to improve life satisfaction by utilizing social groups in new, ever-changing social and …

Effects of temperature, relative humidity, and illumination on the entomological parameters of Aedes albopictus: an experimental study.

Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) is a mosquito from Asia that can transmit a variety of diseases. This paper aimed to explore the effects of temperature, relative humidity, and illumination on the entomological parameters related to the …

Feasibility of emulating Singapore’s experience during the Omicron wave in China: a modelling study

The world has undergone five waves of COVID-19 pandemics, with a sixth wave likely to be led by China as policies in China begin to relax. We reproduced the multiple Omicron waves in Singapore using a multi-dimensional model. Our model shows that the …

Response Strategies for Emerging Infectious Diseases: More Efforts Are Needed.

In recent years, emerging infectious disease outbreaks have placed significant health and socioeconomic burdens upon the population [...].

Dynamic and classifier-based model SARS-CoV-2 Omicron spillover risk assessment in China.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to have a huge impact on health care and economic systems around the world. The first question to ponder is to understand the flow of COVID-19 in the spatial and temporal dimensions. We collected 7 …