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Coronapod: The big COVID research papers of 2020

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πŸ—“οΈ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Benjamin Thompson, Noah Baker and Traci Watson discuss some of 2020's most significant coronavirus research papers.


In the final Coronapod of 2020, we dive into the scientific literature to reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers have discovered so much about SARS-CoV-2 – information that has been vital for public health responses and the rapid development of effective vaccines. But we also look forward to 2021, and the critical questions that remain to be answered about the pandemic.


Papers discussed

A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019 - New England Journal of Medicine, 24 January

Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China - The Lancet, 24 January

A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin - Nature, 3 February

A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China - Nature, 3 February

Temporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of COVID-19 - Nature Medicine, 15 April

Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the Icelandic Population - New England Journal of Medicine, 11 June

High SARS-CoV-2 Attack Rate Following Exposure at a Choir Practice β€” Skagit County, Washington, March 2020 - Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, 15 August

Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks - Nature Medicine, 3 April

Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1 - New England Journal of Medicine, 13 April

Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period - Science, 22 May


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com. Hi listeners, Benjamin here, coming to you once again from the South London Basement. It's our final Corona Pod of the year.

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And when Noah and I sat down to discuss what we should cover, we thought it would be a good time to take stock and look back at how far science has come. Isn't that right, Noah?

1:33.4

Yeah, indeed. But so much has happened that it's really hard to know where to start. So we turn to

1:38.7

the most reliable of archives, the scientific literature. Throughout 2020, researchers have been publishing their findings

1:45.8

on preprints and journals, on blogs. And reading those publications all the way through

1:51.1

has been our special guests for this final CoronaPod segment, Nature's Research High

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Highlights editor, Tracy Watson. Hi, Tracy. Hello. That's right. I scan a lot of abstracts of both published papers and preprints,

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