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Murphy C, Lim WW, Mills C, Wong JY, Chen D, Xie Y, Li M, Gould S, Xin H, Cheung JK, Bhatt S, Cowling BJ, Donnelly CA. Effectiveness of social distancing measures and lockdowns for reducing transmission of COVID-19 in non-healthcare, community-based settings. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2023; 381:20230132. [PMID: 37611629 PMCID: PMC10446910 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2023.0132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2023] [Accepted: 05/23/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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Social distancing measures (SDMs) are community-level interventions that aim to reduce person-to-person contacts in the community. SDMs were a major part of the responses first to contain, then to mitigate, the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the community. Common SDMs included limiting the size of gatherings, closing schools and/or workplaces, implementing work-from-home arrangements, or more stringent restrictions such as lockdowns. This systematic review summarized the evidence for the effectiveness of nine SDMs. Almost all of the studies included were observational in nature, which meant that there were intrinsic risks of bias that could have been avoided were conditions randomly assigned to study participants. There were no instances where only one form of SDM had been in place in a particular setting during the study period, making it challenging to estimate the separate effect of each intervention. The more stringent SDMs such as stay-at-home orders, restrictions on mass gatherings and closures were estimated to be most effective at reducing SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Most studies included in this review suggested that combinations of SDMs successfully slowed or even stopped SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the community. However, individual effects and optimal combinations of interventions, as well as the optimal timing for particular measures, require further investigation. This article is part of the theme issue 'The effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the COVID-19 pandemic: the evidence'.
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- Caitriona Murphy
- World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
- Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, New Territories, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
- Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, New Territories, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
- Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
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- World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- Section of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Kobenhavn, Denmark
- MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
- Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, New Territories, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Shivgunde P, Thakare S, Sen S, Kanitkar M, Agrawal M, Vidyasagar M. COVID-19 Pandemic in Malegaon: SUTRA over the Three Waves. Indian J Microbiol 2023; 63:344-351. [PMID: 37781020 PMCID: PMC10533435 DOI: 10.1007/s12088-023-01096-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Accepted: 08/13/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023] Open
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Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has seen multiple waves with high morbidity and mortality. Lockdowns and other prompt responses helped India's situation become less severe. Although Malegaon in the Indian state of Maharashtra has a high population density, poor hygienic standards, and oppositional local community views toward national pandemic addressing measures, it is nevertheless reasonably safe. To understand the possible reasons serosurvey was conducted to estimate the anti-SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody levels in the Malegaon population. Also, we did SUTRA mathematical modeling to the Malegaon daily data on COVID-19 attributable events and compared it with the National and state level. The case fatality rate (CFR) in Malegaon city for the first, second, and third waves was 3.25%, 2.25%, and 0.39%, respectively. The crude death rate (CDR) for Maharashtra ranked first for the initial two waves and India for the third wave. Malegaon, meanwhile, finished second in the first two waves but fared best in the third. The Vaccination coverage for the first dose before the second wave was only 0.34% but had risen to 64.46% by 12 Oct 2022. By then, the second and booster dose coverage was 27.55% and 2.38%, respectively. Serosurvey did between 12 and 18 Jan 2022 showed a 93.93% anti-SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody presence. SUTRA modeling elucidated the high levels of antibodies due to the pandemic-reach over 102% by the third wave. The serosurvey and the model explain why the pandemic severity in terms of duration and CFR during the subsequent waves, especially third wave, was milder compared to the first wave in spite of low vaccination rates. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12088-023-01096-3.
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- Prashant Shivgunde
- Department of Pharmaceutical Medicine, Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik, MH 422004 India
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- Malegaon Municipal Corporation, Malegaon, MH 423105 India
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- University Research Department, Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik, MH 422004 India
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- Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik, MH 422004 India
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- Department of Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, TS 502284 India
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Singh B, Chattu VK, Kaur J, Mol R, Gauttam P, Singh B. COVID-19 and Global Distributive Justice: 'Health Diplomacy' of India and South Africa for the TRIPS waiver. JOURNAL OF ASIAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES 2023; 58:747-765. [PMID: 37461426 PMCID: PMC10345817 DOI: 10.1177/00219096211069652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/20/2023]
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The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic had left heart-wrenching impacts on all facets of life in general and the availability, accessibility, and affordability of medicines and vaccines in particular. Rather, the world has been divided into two groups regarding access to medicine and vaccines as haves and have-nots. The rich countries had pre-ordered the vaccines of COVID-19 along with the holding of the same. The pandemic situation was further worsened, given the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in practice and restrictions on sharing technology of vaccines, medicines, and life-saving equipment. In this context, India and South Africa have proposed the joint proposal and garnered support for waiving off TRIPS to ensure equity, accessibility, and affordability of vaccines and the same as public goods. In this review, we emphasize that global justice is one of the important elements of normative international theories, which focus on all the moral obligations from the world's rich to the world's poor. The paper also questions and argues that if the rich countries fail to go by the principles of global justice, can the Indian and South African (SA) patent diplomacy play a catalyst role in global justice? The review concludes with an emphasis on global solidarity, and the acceptance of joint India-South Africa's "patent diplomacy" for TRIPS waiver would result in mass production and fair distribution, making the COVID-19 medicines and technologies available to everyone regardless of their poor-rich status.
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- Bawa Singh
- Department of South and Central Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Central University of Punjab, India
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- Vijay Kumar Chattu, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 2C4, Canada.
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- Department of South and Central Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Central University of Punjab, India
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- Department of Political Science, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, India
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Ambade PN, Thavorn K, Pakhale S. COVID-19 Pandemic: Did Strict Mobility Restrictions Save Lives and Healthcare Costs in Maharashtra, India? Healthcare (Basel) 2023; 11:2112. [PMID: 37510552 PMCID: PMC10379405 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare11142112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Revised: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Maharashtra, India, remained a hotspot during the COVID-19 pandemic. After the initial complete lockdown, the state slowly relaxed restrictions. We aim to estimate the lockdown's impact on COVID-19 cases and associated healthcare costs. METHODS Using daily case data for 84 days (9 March-31 May 2020), we modeled the epidemic's trajectory and predicted new cases for different phases of lockdown. We fitted log-linear models to estimate the growth rate, basic (R0), daily reproduction number (Re), and case doubling time. Based on pre-restriction and Phase 1 R0, we predicted new cases for the rest of the restriction phases, and we compared them with the actual number of cases during each phase. Furthermore, using the published and gray literature, we estimated the costs and savings of implementing these restrictions for the projected period, and we performed a sensitivity analysis. RESULTS The estimated median R0 during the different phases was 1.14 (95% CI: 0.85, 1.45) for pre-lockdown, 1.67 (95% CI: 1.50, 1.82) for phase 1 (strict mobility restrictions), 1.24 (95% CI: 1.12, 1.35) for phase 2 (extension of phase 1 with no restrictions on agricultural and essential services), 1.12 (95% CI: 1.01, 1.23) for phase 3 (extension of phase 2 with mobility relaxations in areas with few infections), and 1.05 (95% CI: 0.99, 1.123) for phase 4 (implementation of localized lockdowns in high-case-load areas with fewer restrictions on other areas), respectively. The corresponding doubling time rate for cases (in days) was 17.78 (95% CI: 5.61, -15.19), 3.87 (95% CI: 3.15, 5.00), 10.37 (95% CI: 7.10, 19.30), 20.31 (95% CI: 10.70, 212.50), and 45.56 (95% CI: 20.50, -204.52). For the projected period, the cases could have reached 631,819 without the lockdown, as the actual reported number of cases was 64,975. From a healthcare perspective, the estimated total value of averted cases was INR 194.73 billion (USD 2.60 billion), resulting in net cost savings of 84.05%. The Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio (ICER) per Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) for implementing the lockdown, rather than observing the natural course of the pandemic, was INR 33,812.15 (USD 450.83). CONCLUSION Maharashtra's early public health response delayed the pandemic and averted new cases and deaths during the first wave of the pandemic. However, we recommend that such restrictions be carefully used while considering the local socio-economic realities in countries like India.
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- Preshit Nemdas Ambade
- Department of Population Health Sciences, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1G 5Z3, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1G 5Z3, Canada
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Mozaffer F, Cherian P, Krishna S, Wahl B, Menon GI. Effect of hybrid immunity, school reopening, and the Omicron variant on the trajectory of the COVID-19 epidemic in India: a modelling study. THE LANCET REGIONAL HEALTH. SOUTHEAST ASIA 2023; 8:100095. [PMID: 36267800 PMCID: PMC9556909 DOI: 10.1016/j.lansea.2022.100095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2022] [Revised: 09/29/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Background The course of the COVID-19 pandemic has been driven by several dynamic behavioral, immunological, and viral factors. We used mathematical modeling to explore how the concurrent reopening of schools, increasing levels of hybrid immunity, and the emergence of the Omicron variant affected the trajectory of the pandemic in India, using Andhra Pradesh (pop: 53 million) as an exemplar Indian state. Methods We constructed an age- and contact-structured compartmental model that allows for individuals to proceed through various states depending on whether they have received zero, one, or two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. We calibrated our model using results from another model (i.e., INDSCI-SIM) as well as available context-specific serosurvey data. The introduction of the Omicron variant is modelled alongside protection gained from hybrid immunity. We predict disease dynamics in the background of hybrid immunity coming from infections and an ongoing vaccination program, given prior levels of seropositivity from earlier waves of infection. We describe the consequences of school reopening on cases across different age-bands, as well as the impact of the Omicron (BA.2) variant. Findings We show the existence of an epidemic peak in India that is strongly related to the value of background seroprevalence. As expected, because children were not vaccinated in India, re-opening schools increases the number of cases in children more than in adults, although in all scenarios, the peak number of active hospitalizations was never greater than 0.45 times the corresponding peak in the Delta wave before schools were reopened. We varied the level of infection induced seropositivity in our model and found the height of the peak associated with schools reopening reduced as background infection-induced seropositivity increased from 20% to 40%. At reported values of seropositivity of 64% from representative surveys done in India, no discernible peak was observed. We also explored counterfactual scenarios regarding the effect of vaccination on hybrid immunity. We found that in the absence of vaccination, even at high levels of seroprevalence (>60%), the emergence of the Omicron variant would have resulted in a large rise in cases across all age bands by as much as 1.8 times. We conclude that the presence of high levels of hybrid immunity resulted in fewer cases in the Omicron wave than in the Delta wave. Interpretation In India, decreasing prevalence of immunologically naïve individuals of all ages was associated with fewer cases reported once schools were reopened. In addition, hybrid immunity, together with the lower intrinsic severity of disease associated with the Omicron variant, contributed to low reported COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths. Funding World Health Organization, Mphasis.
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- Farhina Mozaffer
- The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India,Homi Bhabha National Institute, BARC Training School Complex, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Physics, Ashoka University, Sonepat, India
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- Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India
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- Johns Hopkins India, New Delhi, India,Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA,International Vaccine Access Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA,Corresponding author at: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
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- The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India,Homi Bhabha National Institute, BARC Training School Complex, Mumbai, India,Department of Physics, Ashoka University, Sonepat, India,Department of Biology, Ashoka University, Sonepat, India,Corresponding author at: Ashoka University, Sonepat, India
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Mallick P, Bhowmick S, Panja S. Prediction of COVID-19 Infected Population for Indian States through a State Interaction Network-based SEIR Epidemic Model. IFAC-PAPERSONLINE 2022; 55:691-696. [PMID: 38620853 PMCID: PMC9083210 DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.04.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Objective of this present study is to predict the COVID-19 trajectories in terms of infected population of Indian states. In this work, a state interaction network of sixteen Indian states with highest number of infected caseload is considered, based on networked Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered (SEIR) epidemic model. An intervention term has been introduced in order to capture the effect of lockdown with different stringencies at different periods of time. The model has been fitted using least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO). Machine learning methods have been used to train the parameters of the model, cross-validate the data, and predict the parameters. The predictions of infected population for each of the sixteen states have been shown using data considered from January 1, 2021 till writing this manuscript on June 25, 2021. Finally, the effectiveness of the model is manifested by the calculated mean error and confidence interval.
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- Piklu Mallick
- Dept. of ECE, Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, Assam
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- Dept. of EECE, GITAM University, Bengaluru Campus, Karnataka-561203, India
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- Dept. of ECE, Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, Assam
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Justo Arevalo S, Zapata Sifuentes D, J Huallpa C, Landa Bianchi G, Castillo Chávez A, Garavito-Salini Casas R, Uribe Calampa CS, Uceda-Campos G, Pineda Chavarría R. Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 mutations reveals regional-specificity and similar trends of N501 and high-frequency mutation N501Y in different levels of control measures. Sci Rep 2021; 11:17755. [PMID: 34493762 PMCID: PMC8423746 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-97267-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This disease has spread globally, causing more than 161.5 million cases and 3.3 million deaths to date. Surveillance and monitoring of new mutations in the virus' genome are crucial to our understanding of the adaptation of SARS-CoV-2. Moreover, how the temporal dynamics of these mutations is influenced by control measures and non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) is poorly understood. Using 1,058,020 SARS-CoV-2 from sequenced COVID-19 cases from 98 countries (totaling 714 country-month combinations), we perform a normalization by COVID-19 cases to calculate the relative frequency of SARS-CoV-2 mutations and explore their dynamics over time. We found 115 mutations estimated to be present in more than 3% of global COVID-19 cases and determined three types of mutation dynamics: high-frequency, medium-frequency, and low-frequency. Classification of mutations based on temporal dynamics enable us to examine viral adaptation and evaluate the effects of implemented control measures in virus evolution during the pandemic. We showed that medium-frequency mutations are characterized by high prevalence in specific regions and/or in constant competition with other mutations in several regions. Finally, taking N501Y mutation as representative of high-frequency mutations, we showed that level of control measure stringency negatively correlates with the effective reproduction number of SARS-CoV-2 with high-frequency or not-high-frequency and both follows similar trends in different levels of stringency.
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- Santiago Justo Arevalo
- Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru.
- Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Agraria la Molina, Lima, Peru
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- Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Lambayeque, Peru
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Babu GR, Ray D, Bhaduri R, Halder A, Kundu R, Menon GI, Mukherjee B. COVID-19 Pandemic in India: Through the Lens of Modeling. GLOBAL HEALTH, SCIENCE AND PRACTICE 2021; 9:220-228. [PMID: 34234020 PMCID: PMC8324184 DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-21-00233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2021] [Accepted: 05/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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We reflect on and review India's COVID-19 pandemic response through the lens of modeling and data. The lessons learned from the Indian context may be beneficial for other countries.
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- Giridhara R Babu
- Indian Institute of Public Health, Public Health Foundation of India, Bengaluru, India
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- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Social and Decision Analytics Division, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia, USA
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- Ashoka University, Sonepat, India
- Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
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Sinha S. Modelling the spread of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic - Is this even close to a supermodel? Indian J Med Res 2021; 153:201-206. [PMID: 33510053 PMCID: PMC8184071 DOI: 10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_4525_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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- Somdatta Sinha
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Kolkata 741 246, West Bengal, India
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Agrawal M, Kanitkar M, Vidyasagar M. Authors' response. Indian J Med Res 2021; 153:204-206. [PMID: 33818478 PMCID: PMC8184086 DOI: 10.4103/0971-5916.307699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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- Manindra Agrawal
- Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208 016, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Deputy Chief Integrated Defence Staff (Medical), HQ Integrated Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence, Government of India, New Delhi 110 010, India
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- Department of Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad 502 285, Telangana, India
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John J, Kang G. Tracking SARS-CoV-2 infection in India with serology. Lancet Glob Health 2021; 9:e219-e220. [PMID: 33515513 PMCID: PMC7906663 DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(20)30546-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Jacob John
- Christian Medical College, Vellore 632002, India
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