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ReviewNature reviews. Disease primers2025

Acute SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Amy C Sherman, Glenda E Gray, Bin Cao, Kelvin K W To, Nadine Rouphael, Ana Maria Henao-Restrepo, Anthony C Gordon, Lindsey R Baden

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Review in Nature reviews. Disease primers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Amy C ShermanDivision of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Glenda E GraySouth African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
Bin CaoDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, National Centre for Respiratory Medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China.
Kelvin K W ToDepartment of Microbiology, School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
Nadine RouphaelHope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2512-7919
Ana Maria Henao-RestrepoWorld Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Anthony C GordonDivision of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0419-547X
Lindsey R BadenDivision of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. lbaden@bwh.harvard.edu.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a respiratory pathogen that emerged in December 2019 and caused a global pandemic by March 2020, with >7 million deaths due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) globally as of September 2025. The clinical syndrome of COVID-19 ranges from asymptomatic infection to severe disease with pneumonia and death. SARS-CoV-2 variant type, inoculum, previous exposure and host factors influence the clinical trajectory. Identification of key structural proteins of SARS-CoV-2 and insights into the pathophysiology of the immune response to infection led to the development of effective preventive (vaccines and monoclonal antibodies) and therapeutic (antivirals and immunomodulatory agents) agents. Antiviral agents, such as remdesivir and nirmatrelvir-ritonavir, inhibit viral replication and immunomodulatory agents, such as tocilizumab and baricitinib, act to reduce a dysregulated immune response to SARS-CoV-2. The pandemic had economic and socio-cultural consequences that affected the quality of life and overall life expectancy of individuals. As the emergency phase of the pandemic concludes, robust monitoring and surveillance systems must be sustained and research to improve vaccines and therapeutics must continue to maintain control of SARS-CoV-2 in the population and be prepared for emerging pathogens with pandemic potential.

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COVID-19Antiviral AgentsCOVID-19 Drug TreatmentCOVID-19 VaccinesHumansSARS-CoV-2Antiviral AgentsCOVID-19 Vaccines

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