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COVID-19 vaccination implementation in 52 African countries: trajectory and implications for future pandemic preparedness

Introduction To end the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO set a goal in 2021 to fully vaccinate 70% of the global population by mid-2022. We projected the COVID-19 vaccination trajectory in 52 African countries and compared the projected to the ‘actual’ or ‘observed’ coverage as of December 2022. We also estimated the required vaccination speed needed to have attained the WHO 70% coverage target by December 2022.

Methods We obtained publicly available, country-reported daily COVID-19 vaccination data, covering the initial 9 months following the deployment of vaccines. We used a deterministic compartmental Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered-type model and fit the model to the number of COVID-19 cases and vaccination coverage in each African country using a Markov chain Monte Carlo approach within a Bayesian framework.

Findings Only nine of the 52 African countries (Tunisia, Cabo Verde, Lesotho, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, Morocco, Botswana and Mauritius) were ....

United States , Sierra Leone , Monte Carlo , Cabo Verde , African Union Vaccine Acquisition , Programme On Immunization , Rr Development Core Team , United Nations , World War , West African , Africa Centres , Disease Control , Global Access , African Union , African Vaccine Acquisition Trust , Oxford Astrazeneca , Expanded Programme , Africa Vaccine Manufacturing Framework , Saharan Africa ,

Frontiers | Criteria for prioritizing selection of Mexican maize landrace accessions for conservation in situ or ex situ based on phylogenetic analysis

A combination of factors including migration, climate change and the encroachment of growing cities are associated with the extinction of species and a reduction in biodiversity. In Mexico maize landraces are an important source of germplasm that could be invaluable for future breeding programs in response a changing environment. Efforts to develop conservation strategies are hampered by the costs of housing and maintaining large germplasm collections. Effective criteria are therefore needed to identify rare genotypes that are in danger of being lost and to define minimal cost -effective core collections. With this aim a large-scale genotyping analysis of Mexican maize landraces was carried out to determine relationships at the genotype level and identify rare germplasm. Using this methodology, a core subset of 56 accessions from a total number of 1338 carrying all 333 distinct alleles identified in the study was determined. ....

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Trends in respiratory diseases before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in China from 2010 to 2021 | BMC Public Health

The ongoing benefits of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for respiratory infectious diseases in China are still unclear. We aimed to explore the changes in seven respiratory infectious diseases before, during, and after COVID-19 in China from 2010 to 2021. The monthly case numbers of seven respiratory infectious diseases were extracted to construct autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models. Eight indicators of NPIs were chosen from the COVID-19 Government Response Tracker system. The monthly case numbers of the respiratory diseases and the eight indicators were used to establish the Multivariable generalized linear model (GLM) to calculate the incidence rate ratios (IRRs). Compared with the year 2019, the percentage changes in 2020 and 2021 were all below 100% ranging from 3.81 to 84.71%. Pertussis and Scarlet fever started to increase in 2021 compared with 2020, with a percentage change of 183.46 and 171.49%. The ARIMA model show ....

Johns Hopkins University , National Health Commission , Rr Development Core Team , National Bureau Of Statistics , Seasonal Influenza , China Information System , Disease Control , National Bureau , Hangzhou Xixi Hospital , Data Repository , Response Tracker , Chinese New Year ,