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COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology
COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

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Figure 9: © The Open University based on SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 live updates (lubio.ch)

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Video 1: Introduction to the Course: © The Open University (2023) Images: Getty Images

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

Week 2

Figures

Figure 1: adapted from: David Male, R. Stokes Peebles, Victoria Male (eds) (2020), (fig 1.15) in ‘Immunology 9th edition’, Elsevier

Figure 2: adapted from: David Male, R. Stokes Peebles, Victoria Male (eds) (2020), (fig 6.9) in ‘Immunology 9th edition’, Elsevier

Figure 5: adapted from David Male, R. Stokes Peebles, Victoria Male (eds) (2020) (fig10.1) in ‘Immunology 9th edition’, Elsevier

Figure 7:adapted from Roitt, I. (1998) ‘Primary and secondary antibody responses’, Immunology, 5th edn. Mosby International Ltd

Figure 10: adapted from Roitt, I. et al. (1998) Immunology, 5th edn. Mosby International Ltd

Audio Visual

Video 1: Immune defence: © The Open University. Diagram: adapted from Male. D, et al (eds) (2020), ‘Immunology 9th edition’, Elsevier

Video 2: Apoptosis: ‘Immunology Interactive 3.0’ by Professor David Male, Professor Jonathan Brostoff and Professor Ivan Roitt. Copyright © David Male. Courtesy Professor David Male

Video 3: Immune Defence: Courtesy Professor David Male

Video 4: Virus infection and immune responses ‘Immunology Interactive 3.0’ by Professor David Male, Professor Jonathan Brostoff and Professor Ivan Roitt. Copyright © David Male. Courtesy David Male

Week 3

Figures

Figure 1: adapted from: David Male et.al (eds) (2020) in ‘Immunology 9th edition’ published by Elsevier

Figure 2: adapted from: David Male et.al (eds) (2020) in ‘Immunology 9th edition’ published by Elsevier

Audio Visual

Video 1: ELISA laboratory video guide: courtesy: David Male © David Male

Week 4

Figures

Figure 1: SARS-CoV2 VOCs timeline: courtesy: David Male

Figure 2: Daily confirmed COVID-19 cases in the UK: adapted from: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ details/ healthcare?areaType=nation&areaName=England https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/

Figure 3: COVID-19 vaccination heat map.: adapted from: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ details/ vaccinations?areaType=nation&areaName=England https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/

Audio Visual

Video 1: ELISA laboratory video guide: courtesy David Male © David Male

Week 5

Figures

Figure 1: Daily incidence of SARS-CoV2 infections in the entire population of the UK adapted from: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ details/ healthcare?areaType=nation&areaName=England https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/

Figure 2: The protein components of plasma. Courtesy: David Male

Figure 3: Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Spain (ENE-COVID): a nationwide, population-based seroepidemiological study Prof Marina Pollán, MD,(Figure 2) in: Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Spain (ENE-COVID): a nationwide, population-based seroepidemiological study - The Lancet

Figure 4: Seroprevalence of IgG antibodies to spike protein in UK blood donors: https://www.gov.uk/ government/ publications/ national-covid-19-surveillance-reports/ sero-surveillance-of-covid-19 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/

Week 6

Figures

Figure 4: Estimated values of RE in the UK: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ details/ healthcare?areaType=nation&areaName=England https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/

Audio Visual

Video 1: Introduction to week 6: © The Open University. Images: Getty images

Week 7

Figures

Figure 3: Schedule of a phase-1 vaccine trial. Courtesy David Male

Figure 5: from Wei, J., Pouwels, K.B., Stoesser, N. et al. Antibody responses and correlates of protection in the general population after two doses of the ChAdOx1 or BNT162b2 vaccines. Nat Med (2022).Open Access Published: 14 February 2022

Figure 6: from https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations?areaType=nation&areaName=England https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/

Audio Visual

Video 1: Detecting antibodies against SARS-CoV-2. Courtesy David Male © David Male

Week 8

Figures

Figure 2: (a)and (b) in Viana, R., Moyo, S., Amoako, D.G. et al. Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa. Nature 603, 679–686 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04411-y open access

Figure 3: from Figure 1 | Cumulative sequence count over time B.1.1.7 in https://cov-lineages.org/ global_report_B.1.1.7https://cov-lineages.org/

Figure 4 from Figure 2 | Date of earliest_B.1.1.7 detected in https://cov-lineages.org/ global_report_B.1.1.7 https://cov-lineages.org/

Figure 5: https://www.npr.org/ sections/ goatsandsoda/ 2022/ 02/ 09/ 1047616658/ take-a-look-at-sars-cov-2s-family-tree-its-full-of-surpriseshttps://www.npr.org/https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/

Figure 6: from Fig. 1: Neutralization of the SARS-CoV-2 variants D614G, Alpha, Beta and Delta by therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. Planas, D., Veyer, D., Baidaliuk, A. et al. Reduced sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 variant Delta to antibody neutralization. Nature 596, 276–280 (2021). https://doi.org/ 10.1038/ s41586-021-03777-9

Figure 7: in Weisblum Y, Schmidt F, Zhang F, DaSilva J et al. Escape form neutralizing antibodies by SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants. eLife 9:e61312. https://elifesciences.org/  articles/  61312 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.

Figure 8: Photo by RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images

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