Jeffrey S. MorrisOct 171 min2 minute summary of what we should be doing about the pandemicZdoggMD is a doctor who has become a charismatic entertaining purveyor of medical information online, who has been making frequent video...
Jeffrey S. MorrisOct 173 minInterim Analysis of WHO SOLIDARITY study bad news for Remdesivir and other treatmentsThe WHO has published a medRxiv report of an interim analysis of their SOLIDARITY study, a large international randomized study comparing...
Jeffrey S. MorrisOct 168 minWhat about this "Great Barrington Declaration" suggesting we seek fast herd immunity?Three scientists, Dr. Martin Kulldorff from Harvard, Dr. Sunetra Gupta from Oxford, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford, have written...
Jeffrey S. MorrisOct 132 minWhat have we learned about COVID-19, and what can we expect? The statistics that matter.Here is a video of a presentation I have for the Business Institute for my undergraduate university Messiah University, a liberal arts un...
Jeffrey S. MorrisOct 72 minImmune Responses to SARS-CoV-2 and Prospects for VaccineThis article in Nature in August presented a succinct, accessible, informative summary of what we know and don't know about immunity to S...
Jeffrey S. MorrisOct 12 minRethinking Covid-19 Test Sensitivity — A Strategy for Containment: (Antigen Tests!!!)A commentary was published in New England Journal of Medicine yesterday "Rethinking Covid-19 Tests Sensitivity -- A Strategy for Containm...
Jeffrey S. MorrisOct 13 minLarge contact tracing study in India confirms many aspects of COVID-19 spread and riskA paper was just published yesterday in Science presenting results from a contact tracing study in two states in southern India that en...
Jeffrey S. MorrisSep 2918 minWhat proportion of the US population is susceptible, & what does it mean for possible herd immunity?A study was just published in the Lancet on September 25 presenting results from the largest nationwide study to date assessing the preva...
Jeffrey S. MorrisSep 292 minExecutive pressure on CDC messaging: Failure of effective collaboration in school opening decisionsThe federal government micromanaging the scientific messaging coming from the CDC is a real problem, as emphasized by the NY Times articl...
Jeffrey S. MorrisSep 252 minA Seat at the Table: Key role of Biostatistics in the pandemic, and what we have learned so farI gave a presentation at University of Pittsburgh (virtually of course) on 9/24/20, and discussed my motivation and vision for this blog,...
Jeffrey S. MorrisSep 183 minPrevent Epidemics: great resources for reliable updates on scientific findings in pandemicPrevent Epidemics has a Weekly Science Review that provides brief summary and discussion of major peer-reviewed scientific articles on th...
Jeffrey S. MorrisSep 172 minWhat is our current state of pandemic knowledge, and what can we expect in the next year?I was asked to give a presentation by the University of Pennsylvania Faculty-Staff Christian Forum today, entitled "COVID-19: A Biostatis...
Jeffrey S. MorrisSep 143 minMore discussion of fast antigen tests, potentially the key to safe school reopenings.I have previously posted about how I believe fast antigen tests are the key for surveillance and safe school reopenings here and here. ...
Jeffrey S. MorrisSep 105 minTexas, we have a (data) problem.Here is a recent report talking about some of the data recording problems in Texas, which has been a mess for a long time. The gist of th...
Jeffrey S. MorrisSep 106 minHow will mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus affect the pandemic and our vaccine efforts?Nature just published an informative review article discussing mutations and mutation rate in SARS-CoV-2, with special discussion of a pa...
Jeffrey S. MorrisSep 913 minIvor Cummins: Evaluating some European unconventional doubter/denier viewpointsThis video by Ivor Cummins describes some of his unconventional viewpoints. He supports the position that mandatory lockdowns were not n...
Jeffrey S. MorrisSep 92 minSeparation of Science and State?I see too many recent reports suggesting attempts at political influence over the scientific messaging coming from the CDC, FDA, and NIH ...
Jeffrey S. MorrisAug 303 minMore thoughts the key role of antigen tests in community viral management and school openingsA NY Times article published today talks about some seldom-discussed limitations of current PCR testing and highlights some of the point...
Jeffrey S. MorrisAug 262 minWhat counties in the USA are testing, and which are not?From the PolicyLab testing data from HHS, below is a plot of SARS-CoV-2 testing rate of each county per 100k residents, with hotter color...
Jeffrey S. MorrisAug 2612 minReview of Mayo Clinic study cited in FDA emergency use approval of convalescent plasmaThis week the FDA gave emergency approval for the use of convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19, making the strategy broadly available to ...
