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David Simons
Researcher at Royal Veterinary College
Publications - 45
Citations - 3220
David Simons is an academic researcher from Royal Veterinary College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Transmission (telecommunications). The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 29 publications receiving 1068 citations. Previous affiliations of David Simons include GlaxoSmithKline & University College London.
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Covid-19 Vaccine Effectiveness against the Omicron (B.1.1.529) Variant
Nick Andrews,Julia Stowe,Freja C M Kirsebom,Samuel E. Toffa,T S Rickeard,Eileen Gallagher,Charlotte Gower,Meaghan Kall,Natalie Groves,Anne Marie O’Connell,David Simons,Paula Blomquist,Asad Zaidi,S. Nash,Nurin Iwani Binti Abdul Aziz,Simon Thelwall,Gavin Dabrera,R. Myers,Gayatri Amirthalingam,Saheer E. Gharbia,Jeffrey C. Barrett,Richard Elson,Shamez N Ladhani,Neil M. Ferguson,Maria Zambon,Colin Campbell,Kevin K. Brown,Susan Hopkins,Meera Chand,Mary Ramsay,Jamie Lopez Bernal +30 more
TL;DR: Primary immunization with two doses of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 or BNT162b2 vaccine provided limited protection against symptomatic disease caused by the omicron variant, but that protection waned over time.
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Effectiveness of isolation, testing, contact tracing, and physical distancing on reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in different settings: a mathematical modelling study.
Adam J. Kucharski,Petra Klepac,Petra Klepac,Andrew J. K. Conlan,Stephen M Kissler,Maria L Tang,Hannah Fry,Julia R. Gog,W. John Edmunds,Jon C Emery,Graham F. Medley,James D Munday,Timothy W Russell,Quentin J Leclerc,Charlie Diamond,Simon R Procter,Amy Gimma,Fiona Yueqian Sun,Hamish Gibbs,Alicia Rosello,Kevin van Zandvoort,Stéphane Hué,Sophie Meakin,Arminder K Deol,Gwen Knight,Thibaut Jombart,Anna M Foss,Nikos I Bosse,Katherine E. Atkins,Billy J Quilty,Rachel Lowe,Kiesha Prem,Stefan Flasche,Carl A. B. Pearson,Rein M G J Houben,Emily Nightingale,Akira Endo,Damien C. Tully,Yang Liu,Julian Villabona-Arenas,Kathleen M. O’Reilly,Sebastian Funk,Rosalind M Eggo,Mark Jit,Eleanor M Rees,Joel Hellewell,Samuel Clifford,Christopher I Jarvis,Sam Abbott,Megan Auzenbergs,Nicholas G Davies,David Simons +51 more
TL;DR: Self-isolation and contact tracing would be more likely to achieve control of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 transmission if combined with moderate physical distancing measures.
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The association of smoking status with sars-cov-2 infection, hospitalization and mortality from covid-19: A living rapid evidence review with bayesian meta-analyses (version 7)
TL;DR: Compared with never smokers, current smokers appear to be at reduced risk of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection while former smokers appearTo be at increased risk of hospitalisation, increased disease severity and mortality from COVID‐19, however, it is uncertain whether these associations are causal.
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Community transmission of monkeypox in the United Kingdom, April to May 2022
Roberto Vivancos,Charlotte Anderson,Paula Blomquist,S. Balasegaram,Anita Bell,Louise Bishop,Colin S Brown,Yimmy Chow,Obaghe Edeghere,Isaac Florence,Sarah Logan,Petra Manley,William J Crowe,Andrew McAuley,Ananda Giri Shankar,Borja Mora-Peris,Karthik Paranthaman,Mateo Prochazka,Cian Ryan,David Simons,Richard Vipond,Chloe Byers,Nicholas A Watkins,William Welfare,Elizabeth Whittaker,Claire Dewsnap,Allegra Wilson,Yvonne Young,Meera Chand,Steven Riley,Susan Hopkins +30 more
TL;DR: This is the first reported sustained MPXV transmission in the UK, with human-to-human transmission through close contacts, including in sexual networks, and improving case ascertainment and onward-transmission preventive measures are ongoing.
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Is Africa prepared for tackling the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic. Lessons from past outbreaks, ongoing pan-African public health efforts, and implications for the future
Nathan Kapata,Chikwe Ihekweazu,Francine Ntoumi,Francine Ntoumi,Tajudeen Raji,Pascalina Chanda-Kapata,Peter Mwaba,Victor Mukonka,Matthew Bates,John Tembo,Victor M. Corman,Sayoki Mfinanga,Danny Asogun,Linzy Elton,Liã Bárbara Arruda,Margaret J. Thomason,Leonard E. G. Mboera,Alexei Yavlinsky,Najmul Haider,David Simons,Lara Hollmann,Swaib A. Lule,Francisco Veas,Muzamil Mahdi Abdel Hamid,Osman Dar,Sarah Edwards,Francesco Vairo,Timothy D. McHugh,Christian Drosten,Richard Kock,Giuseppe Ippolito,Alimuddin Zumla +31 more
TL;DR: Nathan Kapata, Chikwe Ihekweazu, Francine Ntoumi, Tajudeen Raji, Pascalina Chanda-Kapata, Peter Mwaba, Victor Mukonka, Matthew Bates, John Tembo, Victor Corman, Sayoki Mfinanga, Danny Asogun, Linzy Elton, Liã Bárbara Arruda, Margaret J Thomason, Leonard Mboera, Alexei Yavlinsky