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The impact of surveillance and other factors on detection of emergent and circulating vaccine derived polioviruses [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Megan Auzenbergs, Holly Fountain, Grace Macklin, Hil Lyons, Kathleen M O’Reilly
Peer Reviewers Yvonne Maldonado; Walter A. Orenstein; Svea Closser
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 05 May 2022

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Sexual and reproductive health and rights knowledge, perceptions, and experiences of adolescent learners from three South African townships: qualitative findings from the Girls Achieve Power (GAP Year) Trial [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Melanie Pleaner, Cecilia Milford, Alison Kutywayo, Nicolette Naidoo, Saiqa Mullick
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PUBLISHED 03 May 2022

 

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Estimates of excess mortality for the five Nordic countries during the Covid-19 pandemic 2020-2021
Kasper Planeta Kepp, Jonas Planeta Bjork, Kristoffer T Baek, Tea Lallukka
medRxiv 2022.05.07.22274789; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.07.22274789

Assessing the feasibility of sustaining a ‘Zero-COVID’ policy in China in the era of highly transmissible variants
Yan Wang, Kaiyuan Sun, Zhaomin Feng, Lan Yi, Yanpeng Wu, Hengcong Liu, Quanyi Wang, Marco Ajelli, Cecile Viboud, Hongjie Yu
medRxiv 2022.05.07.22274792; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.07.22274792

Comparing human and AI performance in medical machine learning: An open-source Python library for the statistical analysis of reader study data
Scott Mayer McKinney
medRxiv 2022.05.06.22274773; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.06.22274773

Reporting Rates for VAERS Death Reports Following COVID-19 Vaccination, December 14, 2020-November 17, 2021
Brendan Day, David Menschik, Deborah Thompson, Christopher Jankosky, John Su, Pedro Moro, Craig Zinderman, Kerry Welsh, Narayan Nair
medRxiv 2022.05.05.22274695; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.05.22274695

School immunization coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic: A retrospective cohort study
Hannah Sell, Yuba Raj Paudel, Donald Voaklander, Shannon E MacDonald
medRxiv 2022.05.04.22274665; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.04.22274665

Deep learning identified genetic variants associated with COVID-19 related mortality
Zihuan Liu, Wei Dai, Shiying Wang, Yisha Yao, Heping Zhang
medRxiv 2022.05.05.22274731; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.05.22274731

A quasi-experimental cohort study evaluating a conditional economic incentive on first-dose COVID-19 vaccination rates among older adults in South Africa
Candice Maylene Chetty-Makkan, Harsha Thirumurthy, Elizabeth F Bair, Simamkele Bokolo, Candy Day, Korstiaan Wapenaar, Jesse Werner, Lawrence Long, Brendan Maughan-Brown, Sophie J S Pascoe, Jacqui Miot, Alison Buttenheim
medRxiv 2022.05.06.22274712; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.06.22274712

COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness during a prison outbreak when the Omicron was the dominant circulating variant, Zambia, December 2021
John Simwanza, Jonas Z. Hines, Danny Sinyange, Nyambe Sinyange, Chilufya Mulenga, Sarah Hanyinza, Patrick Sakubita, Nelia Langa, Haggai Nowa, Priscilla Gardner, Ngonda Saasa, Gabriel Chipeta, James Simpungwe, Warren Malambo, Busiku Hamainza, Nathan Kapata, Muzala Kapina, Kunda Musonda, Mazyanga Liwewe, Consity Mwale, Sombo Fwoloshi, Lloyd B. Mulenga, Simon Agolory, Victor Mukonka, Roma Chilengi
medRxiv 2022.05.06.22274701; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.06.22274701

Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness against general SARS-CoV-2 infection from the omicron variant: A retrospective cohort study
Lior Rennert, Zichen Ma, Christopher McMahan, Delphine Dean
medRxiv 2022.05.06.22274771; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.06.22274771

Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness against general SARS-CoV-2 infection from the omicron variant: A retrospective cohort study
Lior Rennert, Zichen Ma, Christopher McMahan, Delphine Dean
medRxiv 2022.05.06.22274771; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.06.22274771

Uganda Genome Resource: A rich research database for genomic studies of communicable and non-communicable diseases in Africa
Segun Fatumo, Joseph Mugisha, Opeyemi Soremekun, Allan Kalungi, Richard Mayanja, Christopher Kintu, Ronald Makanga, Ayoub Kakande, Andrew Abaasa, Gershim Asiki, Robert Kalyesubula, Robert Newton, Moffat Nyirenda, Manjinder S Sandhu, Pontiano Kaleebu
medRxiv 2022.05.05.22274740; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.05.22274740

The spread and burden of the COVID-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa: comparison between predictions and actual data and lessons learned
Christophe Dongmo Fokoua-Maxime, Yahia Bellouche, Dillonne Ngonpong Tchigui-Ariolle, Tchana Loic Tchato-Yann, Simeon Pierre Choukem
medRxiv 2022.05.04.22274692; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.04.22274692

Antibody responses to AZD1222 vaccination in West Africa
Adam Abdullahi, David Oladele, Steven A. Kemp, James Ayorinde, Abideen Salako, Fehintola Ige, Douglas Fink, Chika Onwuamah, Qosim Osuolale, Rufai Abubakar, Azuka Okuruawe, Gideon Liboro, Oluwatosin Odubela, Gregory Ohihoin, Oliver Ezechi, Olagoke Usman, Sunfay Mogaji, Adedamola Dada, Soraya Ebrahimi, Lourdes Ceron Gutierrez, Sani H. Aliyu, Rainer Doffinger, Rosemary Audu, Richard Adegbola, Petra Mlcochova, Babatunde Lawal Solako, Ravindra K. Gupta
medRxiv 2022.05.04.22274668; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.04.22274668

The cost and cost-effectiveness of novel tuberculosis vaccines in low- and middle-income countries: a modelling study
Allison Portnoy, Rebecca A. Clark, Matthew Quaife, Chathika K. Weerasuriya, Christinah Mukandavire, Roel Bakker, Arminder K. Deol, Shelly Malhotra, Nebiat Gebreselassie, Matteo Zignol, So Yoon Sim, Raymond C.W. Hutubessy, Inés Garcia Baena, Nobuyuki Nishikiori, Mark Jit, Richard G. White, Nicolas A. Menzies
medRxiv 2022.05.04.22274654; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.04.22274654

Analysis of immunization time, amplitude, and adverse events of seven different vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 across four different countries
Maria Elena Romero-Ibarguengoitia, Arnulfo González-Cantú, Chiara Pozzi, Riccardo Levi, Maximiliano Mollura, Riccardo Sarti, Miguel Angel Sanz-Sánchez, Diego Rivera-Salinas, Yodira Guadalupe Hernández-Ruíz, Ana Gabriela Armendariz-Vázquez, Gerardo Francisco Del Rio-Parra, Irene Antonieta Barco-Flores, Rosalinda González-Facio, Elena Azzolini, Riccardo Barbieri, Alessandro Rodrigo de Azevedo Dias, Milton Henriques-Guimaraes Júnior, Alessandra Bastos-Borges, Cecilia Acciardi, Graciela Paez-Bo, Mauro Martins Teixeira, Maria Rescigno
medRxiv 2022.03.11.22272153; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.11.22272153 Revision

Mondo: Unifying diseases for the world, by the world
Nicole A Vasilevsky, Nicolas A Matentzoglu, Sabrina Toro, Joseph E Flack IV, Harshad Hegde, Deepak R Unni, Gioconda F Alyea, Joanna S Amberger, Larry Babb, James P Balhoff, Taylor I Bingaman, Gully A Burns, Orion J Buske, Tiffany J Callahan, Leigh C Carmody, Paula Carrio Cordo, Lauren E Chan, George S Chang, Sean L Christiaens, Louise C Daugherty, Michel Dumontier, Laura E Failla, May J Flowers, H. Alpha Garrett Jr., Jennifer L Goldstein, Dylan Gration, Tudor Groza, Marc Hanauer, Nomi L Harris, Jason A Hilton, Daniel S Himmelstein, Charles Tapley Hoyt, Megan S Kane, Sebastian Köhler, David Lagorce, Abbe Lai, Martin Larralde, Antonia Lock, Irene López Santiago, Donna R Maglott, Adriana J Malheiro, Birgit H M Meldal, Monica C Munoz-Torres, Tristan H Nelson, Frank W Nicholas, David Ochoa, Daniel P Olson, Tudor I Oprea, David Osumi-Sutherland, Helen Parkinson, Zoë May Pendlington, Ana Rath, Heidi L Rehm, Lyubov Remennik, Erin R Riggs, Paola Roncaglia, Justyne E Ross, Marion F Shadbolt, Kent A Shefchek, Morgan N Similuk, Nicholas Sioutos, Damian Smedley, Rachel Sparks, Ray Stefancsik, Ralf Stephan, Andrea L Storm, Doron Stupp, Gregory S Stupp, Jagadish Chandrabose Sundaramurthi, Imke Tammen, Darin Tay, Courtney L Thaxton, Eloise Valasek, Jordi Valls-Margarit, Alex H Wagner, Danielle Welter, Patricia L Whetzel, Lori L Whiteman, Valerie Wood, Colleen H Xu, Andreas Zankl, Xingmin Aaron Zhang, Christopher G Chute, Peter N Robinson, Christopher J Mungall, Ada Hamosh, Melissa A Haendel
medRxiv 2022.04.13.22273750; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.13.22273750 Revision

Continued Emergence and Evolution of Omicron in South Africa: New BA.4 and BA.5 lineages
Houriiyah Tegally, Monika Moir, Josie Everatt, Marta Giovanetti, Cathrine Scheepers, Eduan Wilkinson, Kathleen Subramoney, Sikhulile Moyo, Daniel G. Amoako, Cheryl Baxter, Christian L. Althaus, Ugochukwu J. Anyaneji, Dikeledi Kekana, Raquel Viana, Jennifer Giandhari, Richard J. Lessells, Tongai Maponga, Dorcas Maruapula, Wonderful Choga, Mogomotsi Matshaba, Simnikiwe Mayaphi, Nokuzola Mbhele, Mpaphi B. Mbulawa, Nokukhanya Msomi, NGS-SA consortium, Yeshnee Naidoo, Sureshnee Pillay, Tomasz Janusz Sanko, James E. San, Lesley Scott, Lavanya Singh, Nonkululeko A. Magini, Pamela Smith-Lawrence, Wendy Stevens, Graeme Dor, Derek Tshiabuila, Nicole Wolter, Wolfgang Preiser, Florette K. Treurnicht, Marietjie Venter, Michaela Davids, Georginah Chiloane, Adriano Mendes, Caitlyn McIntyre, Aine O’Toole, Christopher Ruis, Thomas P. Peacock, Cornelius Roemer, Carolyn Williamson, Oliver G. Pybus, Jinal Bhiman, Allison Glass, Darren P. Martin, Andrew Rambaut, Simani Gaseitsiwe, Anne von Gottberg, Tulio de Oliveira
medRxiv 2022.05.01.22274406; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.01.22274406

Vaccine Stockpile Sharing For Selfish Objectives
Shashwat Shivam, Joshua S. Weitz, Yorai Wardi
medRxiv 2022.04.28.22274446; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.28.22274446

Wellcome Open Research [to 07 May 2022]
https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/browse/articles
[Accessed 07 May 2022]

Wellcome Open Research provides all Wellcome researchers with a place to rapidly publish any results they think are worth sharing. All articles benefit from rapid publication, transparent peer review and editorial guidance on making all source data openly available.

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A longitudinal analysis comparing the proportion of children with excess weight before and during the COVID-19 pandemic [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Gillian Santorelli, John Wright, Duncan Cooper, Laura Lennon, Sarah Muckle, Jane West
Peer Reviewers Invited
Funders
Economic and Social Research Council
British Heart Foundation
Wellcome
National Institute for Health Research
Medical Research Council
Prevention Research Partnership
NIHR Clinical Research Network
PUBLISHED 06 May 2022