Natalia Goñi

TL;DR: These global influenza-associated respiratory mortality estimates are higher than previously reported, suggesting that previous estimates might have underestimated disease burden.

TL;DR: The annual burden of influenza-associated respiratory hospitalizations in the Americas is estimated to be 772,000 (95% credible interval 716,000–829,000), with a heavy burden among young children and the elderly.

TL;DR: The findings evidence the remarkable dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 and the possibility that single and consecutive deletions occur in accessory genes and promote changes in the genomic organization that help the virus explore genetic variations and select for new, higher fit changes.

TL;DR: The emergence and spread of a unique 4-nucleotide deletion in the accessory ORF6, an interesting gene with immune modulation activity, shows that directly repeated sequences in the SARS-CoV-2 genome are associated with indels, even outside the context of extended repeat regions.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors analyzed the genome of SARS-CoV-2 in late 2021 in Uruguay and identified a Delta lineage (AY.20) that experienced a large deletion (872 nucleotides according to the reference Wuhan strain) that removes the 7a, 7b, and 8 ORFs.