Everything about Delta

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: DeltaA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Symptom prevalence, duration, and risk of hospital admission in individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 during periods of omicron and delta variant dominance: a prospective observational study from the ZOE COVID StudyInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The HuntersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines against the B.1.617.2 (Delta) VariantCited 2,503 times
5. Go sideways: Delta (letter)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Kronecker deltaA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines against the B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant

  Jamie Lopez Bernal, Nick Andrews, Charlotte Gower · 2021 · New England Journal of Medicine · 2,503 citations

• Some Exact Results for the Many-Body Problem in one Dimension with Repulsive Delta-Function Interaction

  C. N. Yang · 1967 · Physical Review Letters · 2,062 citations

• Reduced sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 variant Delta to antibody neutralization

  Delphine Planas, David Veyer, Artem Baidaliuk · 2021 · Nature · 1,829 citations

• A Note on the Delta Method

  Gary W. Oehlert · 1992 · The American Statistician · 1,696 citations

• Quantifying burn severity in a heterogeneous landscape with a relative version of the delta Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR)

  Jay D. Miller, Andrea E. Thode · 2007 · Remote Sensing of Environment · 1,272 citations

• Comparative analysis of the risks of hospitalisation and death associated with SARS-CoV-2 omicron (B.1.1.529) and delta (B.1.617.2) variants in England: a cohort study

  Tommy Nyberg, Neil M Ferguson, Sophie G Nash · 2022 · The Lancet · 1,250 citations

• Neither .DELTA.- nor .LAMBDA.-tris(phenanthroline)ruthenium(II) binds to DNA by classical intercalation

  S. Satyanarayana, James C. Dabrowiak, Jonathan B. Chaires · 1992 · Biochemistry · 1,234 citations

• Thermodynamics of a One-Dimensional System of Bosons with Repulsive Delta-Function Interaction

  C. N. Yang, C. P. Yang · 1969 · Journal of Mathematical Physics · 1,233 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Symptom prevalence, duration, and risk of hospital admission in individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 during periods of omicron and delta variant dominance: a prospective observational study from the ZOE COVID Study

  Cristina Menni, Ana M Valdes, Lorenzo Polidori · 2022 · The Lancet · 820 citations

• Hospital admission and emergency care attendance risk for SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) compared with alpha (B.1.1.7) variants of concern: a cohort study

  Katherine A Twohig, Tommy Nyberg, Asad Zaidi · 2022 · The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 654 citations

• Community transmission and viral load kinetics of the SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) variant in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in the UK: a prospective, longitudinal, cohort study

  Anika Singanayagam, Seran Hakki, Jake Dunning · 2022 · The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 646 citations

• Association Between 3 Doses of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine and Symptomatic Infection Caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron and Delta Variants

  Emma K. Accorsi, Amadea Britton, Katherine E. Fleming-Dutra · 2022 · JAMA · 616 citations

• Risk of long COVID associated with delta versus omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2

  Michela Antonelli, Joan Capdevila Pujol, Tim D Spector · 2022 · The Lancet · 590 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The HuntersWilliam E. Butterworth III · 2006
• The hostageWilliam E. Butterworth III · 2005
• The OutlawsWilliam E. Butterworth III, William E. Butterworth IV · 2010
• The land where the blues beganAlan Lomax · 1993
• Cotton kingdom of the new SouthRobert L. Brandfon · 1967
• Inside Delta ForceEric L. Haney · 2002
• Quantum mechanicsA. K. Ghatak, Ajoy Ghatak · 2004
• The mission, the men, and mePete Blaber · 2008

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🔗 Related topics

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