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The interferon landscape along the respiratory tract impacts the severity of COVID-19

2021· article· en· 281 citations· W3194625583 on OpenAlex· 10.1016/j.cell.2021.08.016

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A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

Canadian affiliationAn author listed a Canadian institution. This is the only route the usual frame has.

Full frame distilled prediction

Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

Candidate categories
Metaresearch
Consensus categories
none
Domain
Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
Study design
Candidate signal: Not applicableConsensus signal: Not applicable
Genre
Candidate signal: EmpiricalConsensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score
0.218
Threshold uncertainty score
0.974
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.034
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Opus teacher head0.073
GPT teacher head0.418
Teacher spread
0.345 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

Severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is characterized by overproduction of immune mediators, but the role of interferons (IFNs) of the type I (IFN-I) or type III (IFN-III) families remains debated. We scrutinized the production of IFNs along the respiratory tract of COVID-19 patients and found that high levels of IFN-III, and to a lesser extent IFN-I, characterize the upper airways of patients with high viral burden but reduced disease risk or severity. Production of specific IFN-III, but not IFN-I, members denotes patients with a mild pathology and efficiently drives the transcription of genes that protect against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In contrast, compared to subjects with other infectious or noninfectious lung pathologies, IFNs are overrepresented in the lower airways of patients with severe COVID-19 that exhibit gene pathways associated with increased apoptosis and decreased proliferation. Our data demonstrate a dynamic production of IFNs in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients and show IFNs play opposing roles at distinct anatomical sites.

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The record

Venue
Cell
Topic
COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
Field
Medicine
Canadian institutions
University Hospital Foundation
Funders
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesMedical Research CouncilWellcome TrustFrancis Crick InstituteFondazione IRCCS Policlinico San MatteoNational Institutes of HealthCancer Research UKBurroughs Wellcome Fund
Keywords
BiologyRespiratory tractInterferonCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)ImmunologyCoronavirusImmune systemDiseaseRespiratory systemLungInterferon type ISevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)GeneRespiratory diseaseVirologyInfectious disease (medical specialty)GeneticsInternal medicineMedicine
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yes