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Serosurveillance and the COVID-19 Epidemic in the US: Undetected, Uncertain, and Out of Control.
Brown Tyler S et al. JAMA 2020 Jul

Responding to the urgent need for data tracking the extent of the COVID-19 epidemic, epidemiologists, medical researchers, and public health officials have in recent months advanced an array of research efforts seeking to measure the cumulative incidence of COVID-19 via serologic evidence of prior infection.

White Neighborhoods Have More Access To COVID-19 Testing Sites- But the disease is hitting Black and Hispanic communities hardest.
SR Kim et al, FiveThirtyEight, July 22, 2020

Big data analysis is one of the first to look at testing site locations in all 50 states using data provided by the health care navigation company Castlight Health. An assessment of city and state health department websites also revealed fewer testing sites in areas primarily inhabited by racial minorities.

How Long Does COVID-19 Immunity Last?
D Thompson, the Atlantic, uly 21, 2020

Testing the association between blood type and COVID-19 infection, intubation, and death
M Zietz et al, MEDRXIV< July 21, 2020

Explainable-Machine-Learning to discover drivers and to predict mental illness during COVID-19
IP Jha et al, MEDRXIV, July 21, 2020

Recurrent SARS-CoV-2 RNA positivity after COVID-19: A systematic review and meta analysis
M Azam et al, MEDRXIV, July 21, 2020

Population genetic analysis of Indian SARS-CoV-2 isolates reveals a unique phylogenetic cluster
D Das et al, BIORXIV, July 20, 2020

Structural analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genome and predictions of the human interactome
A Vandelli et al, BIORXIV, July 20, 2020

Implementing Stepped Pooled Testing for Rapid COVID-19 Detection
A Srivastava et al, ARXIV, July 19, 2020