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  1. Article ; Online: Variant-specific symptoms of COVID-19 in a study of 1,542,510 adults in England

    Matthew Whitaker / Joshua Elliott / Barbara Bodinier / Wendy Barclay / Helen Ward / Graham Cooke / Christl A. Donnelly / Marc Chadeau-Hyam / Paul Elliott

    Nature Communications, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2022  Volume 10

    Abstract: In this study, the authors assess changing symptom profiles associated with different SARS-CoV-2 variants from May 2020 to March 2022 in England. Using data from the REACT-1 study, they find that Omicron infection is more often associated with cold and ... ...

    Abstract In this study, the authors assess changing symptom profiles associated with different SARS-CoV-2 variants from May 2020 to March 2022 in England. Using data from the REACT-1 study, they find that Omicron infection is more often associated with cold and influenza-like symptoms, and less with loss of taste and smell.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Portfolio
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  2. Article ; Online: Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 infection hospitalisation and infection fatality ratios over 23 months in England

    Oliver Eales / David Haw / Haowei Wang / Christina Atchison / Deborah Ashby / Graham S. Cooke / Wendy Barclay / Helen Ward / Ara Darzi / Christl A. Donnelly / Marc Chadeau-Hyam / Paul Elliott / Steven Riley

    PLoS Biology, Vol 21, Iss

    2023  Volume 5

    Abstract: The relationship between prevalence of infection and severe outcomes such as hospitalisation and death changed over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reliable estimates of the infection fatality ratio (IFR) and infection hospitalisation ratio (IHR) ... ...

    Abstract The relationship between prevalence of infection and severe outcomes such as hospitalisation and death changed over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reliable estimates of the infection fatality ratio (IFR) and infection hospitalisation ratio (IHR) along with the time-delay between infection and hospitalisation/death can inform forecasts of the numbers/timing of severe outcomes and allow healthcare services to better prepare for periods of increased demand. The REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission-1 (REACT-1) study estimated swab positivity for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in England approximately monthly from May 2020 to March 2022. Here, we analyse the changing relationship between prevalence of swab positivity and the IFR and IHR over this period in England, using publicly available data for the daily number of deaths and hospitalisations, REACT-1 swab positivity data, time-delay models, and Bayesian P-spline models. We analyse data for all age groups together, as well as in 2 subgroups: those aged 65 and over and those aged 64 and under. Additionally, we analysed the relationship between swab positivity and daily case numbers to estimate the case ascertainment rate of England’s mass testing programme. During 2020, we estimated the IFR to be 0.67% and the IHR to be 2.6%. By late 2021/early 2022, the IFR and IHR had both decreased to 0.097% and 0.76%, respectively. The average case ascertainment rate over the entire duration of the study was estimated to be 36.1%, but there was some significant variation in continuous estimates of the case ascertainment rate. Continuous estimates of the IFR and IHR of the virus were observed to increase during the periods of Alpha and Delta’s emergence. During periods of vaccination rollout, and the emergence of the Omicron variant, the IFR and IHR decreased. During 2020, we estimated a time-lag of 19 days between hospitalisation and swab positivity, and 26 days between deaths and swab positivity. By late 2021/early 2022, ...
    Keywords Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 333
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  3. Article ; Online: Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 infection hospitalisation and infection fatality ratios over 23 months in England.

    Oliver Eales / David Haw / Haowei Wang / Christina Atchison / Deborah Ashby / Graham S Cooke / Wendy Barclay / Helen Ward / Ara Darzi / Christl A Donnelly / Marc Chadeau-Hyam / Paul Elliott / Steven Riley

    PLoS Biology, Vol 21, Iss 5, p e

    2023  Volume 3002118

    Abstract: The relationship between prevalence of infection and severe outcomes such as hospitalisation and death changed over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reliable estimates of the infection fatality ratio (IFR) and infection hospitalisation ratio (IHR) ... ...

    Abstract The relationship between prevalence of infection and severe outcomes such as hospitalisation and death changed over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reliable estimates of the infection fatality ratio (IFR) and infection hospitalisation ratio (IHR) along with the time-delay between infection and hospitalisation/death can inform forecasts of the numbers/timing of severe outcomes and allow healthcare services to better prepare for periods of increased demand. The REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission-1 (REACT-1) study estimated swab positivity for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in England approximately monthly from May 2020 to March 2022. Here, we analyse the changing relationship between prevalence of swab positivity and the IFR and IHR over this period in England, using publicly available data for the daily number of deaths and hospitalisations, REACT-1 swab positivity data, time-delay models, and Bayesian P-spline models. We analyse data for all age groups together, as well as in 2 subgroups: those aged 65 and over and those aged 64 and under. Additionally, we analysed the relationship between swab positivity and daily case numbers to estimate the case ascertainment rate of England's mass testing programme. During 2020, we estimated the IFR to be 0.67% and the IHR to be 2.6%. By late 2021/early 2022, the IFR and IHR had both decreased to 0.097% and 0.76%, respectively. The average case ascertainment rate over the entire duration of the study was estimated to be 36.1%, but there was some significant variation in continuous estimates of the case ascertainment rate. Continuous estimates of the IFR and IHR of the virus were observed to increase during the periods of Alpha and Delta's emergence. During periods of vaccination rollout, and the emergence of the Omicron variant, the IFR and IHR decreased. During 2020, we estimated a time-lag of 19 days between hospitalisation and swab positivity, and 26 days between deaths and swab positivity. By late 2021/early 2022, ...
    Keywords Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 333
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  4. Article ; Online: Handheld Point-of-Care System for Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV‑2 Extracted RNA in under 20 min

    Jesus Rodriguez-Manzano / Kenny Malpartida-Cardenas / Nicolas Moser / Ivana Pennisi / Matthew Cavuto / Luca Miglietta / Ahmad Moniri / Rebecca Penn / Giovanni Satta / Paul Randell / Frances Davies / Frances Bolt / Wendy Barclay / Alison Holmes / Pantelis Georgiou

    ACS Central Science, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 307-

    2021  Volume 317

    Keywords Chemistry ; QD1-999
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher American Chemical Society
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  5. Article ; Online: REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) of SARS-CoV-2 virus

    Steven Riley / Christina Atchison / Deborah Ashby / Christl A. Donnelly / Wendy Barclay / Graham S. Cooke / Helen Ward / Ara Darzi / Paul Elliott / REACT study group

    Wellcome Open Research, Vol

    Study protocol [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

    2021  Volume 5

    Abstract: Background: England, UK has one of the highest rates of confirmed COVID-19 mortality globally. Until recently, testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus focused mainly on healthcare and care home settings. As such, there is far less understanding of community ... ...

    Abstract Background: England, UK has one of the highest rates of confirmed COVID-19 mortality globally. Until recently, testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus focused mainly on healthcare and care home settings. As such, there is far less understanding of community transmission. Protocol: The REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) programme is a major programme of home testing for COVID-19 to track progress of the infection in the community. REACT-1 involves cross-sectional surveys of viral detection (virological swab for RT-PCR) tests in repeated samples of 100,000 to 150,000 randomly selected individuals across England. This examines how widely the virus has spread and how many people are currently infected. The age range is 5 years and above. Individuals are sampled from the England NHS patient list. REACT-2 is a series of five sub-studies towards establishing the seroprevalence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in England as an indicator of historical infection. The main study (study 5) uses the same design and sampling approach as REACT-1 using a self-administered lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) test for IgG antibodies in repeated samples of 100,000 to 200,000 adults aged 18 years and above. To inform study 5, studies 1-4 evaluate performance characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 LFIAs (study 1) and different aspects of feasibility, usability and application of LFIAs for home-based testing in different populations (studies 2-4). Ethics and dissemination: The study has ethical approval. Results are reported using STROBE guidelines and disseminated through reports to public health bodies, presentations at scientific meetings and open access publications. Conclusions: This study provides robust estimates of the prevalence of both virus (RT-PCR, REACT-1) and seroprevalence (antibody, REACT-2) in the general population in England. We also explore acceptability and usability of LFIAs for self-administered testing for SARS-CoV-2 antibody in a home-based setting, not done before at such scale in the general population.
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 360
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Wellcome
    Document type Article ; Online
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  6. Article ; Online: SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in England following the first peak of the pandemic

    Helen Ward / Christina Atchison / Matthew Whitaker / Kylie E. C. Ainslie / Joshua Elliott / Lucy Okell / Rozlyn Redd / Deborah Ashby / Christl A. Donnelly / Wendy Barclay / Ara Darzi / Graham Cooke / Steven Riley / Paul Elliott

    Nature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2021  Volume 8

    Abstract: REACT-2 is a large-scale community study of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in England. Here, the authors estimate that 6% of adults in England had been infected by mid-July 2020, with health and long-term care workers and those of Black or South Asian ... ...

    Abstract REACT-2 is a large-scale community study of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in England. Here, the authors estimate that 6% of adults in England had been infected by mid-July 2020, with health and long-term care workers and those of Black or South Asian ethnicity disproportionately affected.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Portfolio
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  7. Article ; Online: Antiviral therapies against Ebola and other emerging viral diseases using existing medicines that block virus entry [v2; ref status

    Jason Long / Edward Wright / Eleonora Molesti / Nigel Temperton / Wendy Barclay

    F1000Research, Vol

    indexed, http://f1000r.es/52g]

    2015  Volume 4

    Abstract: Emerging viral diseases pose a threat to the global population as intervention strategies are mainly limited to basic containment due to the lack of efficacious and approved vaccines and antiviral drugs. The former was the only available intervention ... ...

    Abstract Emerging viral diseases pose a threat to the global population as intervention strategies are mainly limited to basic containment due to the lack of efficacious and approved vaccines and antiviral drugs. The former was the only available intervention when the current unprecedented Ebolavirus (EBOV) outbreak in West Africa began. Prior to this, the development of EBOV vaccines and anti-viral therapies required time and resources that were not available. Therefore, focus has turned to re-purposing of existing, licenced medicines that may limit the morbidity and mortality rates of EBOV and could be used immediately. Here we test three such medicines and measure their ability to inhibit pseudotype viruses (PVs) of two EBOV species, Marburg virus (MARV) and avian influenza H5 (FLU-H5). We confirm the ability of chloroquine (CQ) to inhibit viral entry in a pH specific manner. The commonly used proton pump inhibitors, Omeprazole and Esomeprazole were also able to inhibit entry of all PVs tested but at higher drug concentrations than may be achieved in vivo. We propose CQ as a priority candidate to consider for treatment of EBOV.
    Keywords Antimicrobials & Drug Resistance ; Drug Discovery & Design ; Tropical & Travel-Associated Diseases ; Viral Infections (without HIV) ; Virology ; Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-02-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher F1000 Research Ltd
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  8. Article ; Online: Prevalence of antibody positivity to SARS-CoV-2 following the first peak of infection in England

    Helen Ward / Graham S. Cooke / Christina Atchison / Matthew Whitaker / Joshua Elliott / Maya Moshe / Jonathan C Brown / Barnaby Flower / Anna Daunt / Kylie Ainslie / Deborah Ashby / Christl A. Donnelly / Steven Riley / Ara Darzi / Wendy Barclay / Paul Elliott

    The Lancet Regional Health. Europe, Vol 4, Iss , Pp 100098- (2021)

    Serial cross-sectional studies of 365,000 adults

    2021  

    Abstract: Background: The time-concentrated nature of the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in England in March and April 2020 provides a natural experiment to measure changes in antibody positivity at the population level before onset of the second wave and ... ...

    Abstract Background: The time-concentrated nature of the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in England in March and April 2020 provides a natural experiment to measure changes in antibody positivity at the population level before onset of the second wave and initiation of the vaccination programme. Methods: Three cross-sectional national surveys with non-overlapping random samples of the population in England undertaken between late June and September 2020 (REACT-2 study). 365,104 adults completed questionnaires and self-administered lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) tests for IgG against SARS-CoV-2. Findings: Overall, 17,576 people had detectable antibodies, a prevalence of 4.9% (95% confidence intervals 4.9, 5.0) when adjusted for test characteristics and weighted to the adult population of England. The prevalence declined from 6.0% (5.8, 6.1), to 4.8% (4.7, 5.0) and 4.4% (4.3, 4.5), over the three rounds of the study a difference of -26.5% (-29.0, -23.8). The highest prevalence and smallest overall decline in positivity was in the youngest age group (18-24 years) at -14.9% (-21.6, -8.1), and lowest prevalence and largest decline in the oldest group (>74 years) at -39.0% (-50.8, -27.2). The decline from June to September 2020 was largest in those who did not report a history of COVID-19 at -64.0% (-75.6, -52.3), compared to -22.3% (-27.0, -17.7) in those with SARS-CoV-2 infection confirmed on PCR. Interpretation: A large proportion of the population remained susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection in England based on naturally acquired immunity from the first wave. Widespread vaccination is needed to confer immunity and control the epidemic at population level. Funding: This work was funded by the Department of Health and Social Care in England.
    Keywords Public aspects of medicine ; RA1-1270
    Subject code 360
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
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  9. Article ; Online: Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections in double and triple vaccinated adults and single dose vaccine effectiveness among children in Autumn 2021 in England

    Marc Chadeau-Hyam / Oliver Eales / Barbara Bodinier / Haowei Wang / David Haw / Matthew Whitaker / Joshua Elliott / Caroline E. Walters / Jakob Jonnerby / Christina Atchison / Peter J. Diggle / Andrew J. Page / Deborah Ashby / Wendy Barclay / Graham Taylor / Graham Cooke / Helen Ward / Ara Darzi / Christl A. Donnelly /
    Paul Elliott

    EClinicalMedicine, Vol 48, Iss , Pp 101419- (2022)

    REACT-1 study

    2022  

    Abstract: Summary: Background: Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection with Delta variant was increasing in England in late summer 2021 among children aged 5 to 17 years, and adults who had received two vaccine doses. In September 2021, a third (booster) dose was ... ...

    Abstract Summary: Background: Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection with Delta variant was increasing in England in late summer 2021 among children aged 5 to 17 years, and adults who had received two vaccine doses. In September 2021, a third (booster) dose was offered to vaccinated adults aged 50 years and over, vulnerable adults and healthcare/care-home workers, and a single vaccine dose already offered to 16 and 17 year-olds was extended to children aged 12 to 15 years. Methods: SARS-CoV-2 community prevalence in England was available from self-administered throat and nose swabs using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in round 13 (24 June to 12 July 2021, N = 98,233), round 14 (9 to 27 September 2021, N = 100,527) and round 15 (19 October to 5 November 2021, N = 100,112) from the REACT-1 study randomised community surveys. Linking to National Health Service (NHS) vaccination data for consenting participants, we estimated vaccine effectiveness in children aged 12 to 17 years and compared swab-positivity rates in adults who received a third dose with those who received two doses. Findings: Weighted SARS-CoV-2 prevalence was 1.57% (1.48%, 1.66%) in round 15 compared with 0.83% (0.76%, 0.89%) in round 14, and the previously observed link between infections and hospitalisations and deaths had weakened. Vaccine effectiveness against infection in children aged 12 to 17 years was estimated (round 15) at 64.0% (50.9%, 70.6%) and 67.7% (53.8%, 77.5%) for symptomatic infections. Adults who received a third vaccine dose were less likely to test positive compared to those who received two doses, with adjusted OR of 0.36 (0.25, 0.53). Interpretation: Vaccination of children aged 12 to 17 years and third (booster) doses in adults were effective at reducing infection risk. High rates of vaccination, including booster doses, are a key part of the strategy to reduce infection rates in the community. Funding: Department of Health and Social Care, England.
    Keywords SARS-CoV-2 prevalence ; School-aged children ; Vaccine effectiveness ; Children vaccination ; Booster dose ; Medicine (General) ; R5-920
    Subject code 360
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
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  10. Article ; Online: Dynamics of competing SARS-CoV-2 variants during the Omicron epidemic in England

    Oliver Eales / Leonardo de Oliveira Martins / Andrew J. Page / Haowei Wang / Barbara Bodinier / David Tang / David Haw / Jakob Jonnerby / Christina Atchison / Deborah Ashby / Wendy Barclay / Graham Taylor / Graham Cooke / Helen Ward / Ara Darzi / Steven Riley / Paul Elliott / Christl A. Donnelly / Marc Chadeau-Hyam

    Nature Communications, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2022  Volume 11

    Abstract: This study presents data from the REACT-1 SARS-CoV-2 community sampling study in England from November 2021 to March 2022. They show that the Omicron variant peaked in January with a prevalence of ~7% and that the BA.2 sublineage had a 1.5x higher ... ...

    Abstract This study presents data from the REACT-1 SARS-CoV-2 community sampling study in England from November 2021 to March 2022. They show that the Omicron variant peaked in January with a prevalence of ~7% and that the BA.2 sublineage had a 1.5x higher reproduction number compared to other Omicron sublineages.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Portfolio
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