Jeffrey S. Morris2 days ago8 minSome things don't add up about the Astrazeneca trial results.(Note: I have updated this post on 11/24 based on additional relevant trial information, but the conclusion from the original blog post ...
Jeffrey S. Morris2 days ago2 minUSA Today Article describing new mRNA technology and how it could revolutionize medicineThis article in USA Today discusses the new mRNA vaccine technology underlying the Moderna and BioNTech/Pfizer vaccines with my Penn coll...
Jeffrey S. Morris5 days ago2 minNice article explaining what is special about mRNA vaccines and discussing vaccine effortsThe Atlantic published an informative article discussing the mRNA vaccines developed by BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna and what makes them s...
Jeffrey S. Morris7 days ago4 minDebunking anti-vaccine conspiracy theoriesI can't emphasize enough how positive these vaccine trial results are from the Moderna and BioNTech/Pfizer mRNA vaccines, showing much be...
Jeffrey S. MorrisNov 164 minLight at the end of the pandemic tunnel? Moderna vaccine 94.5% efficacy, prevented severe disease!Last week, as I highlighted in my blog post, BioNTech/Pfizer released the interim analysis of their phase 3 study results for their SARS-...
Jeffrey S. MorrisNov 132 minGreat article explaining COVID-19 vaccine efficacyBiostatistician Natalie Dean and Epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch, key international experts in vaccine studies, just published an article in...
Jeffrey S. MorrisNov 127 minWith this massive nationwide surge in cases and hospitalizations, is it time to hunker down again?My collaborator and leader of PolicyLab, David Rubin, was on Fox29 Philadelphia this morning for an extended time explaining why he recom...
Jeffrey S. MorrisNov 96 minGREAT News about SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine from Pfizer/BioNtech! Some statistical perspective.Pfizer has a press release on an interim analysis from their SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trial. Here is a link to an NPR article on the release. ...
Jeffrey S. MorrisNov 61 minPublished paper shows nearly 95% still had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies after 6 months.This study, just published in Clinical Infectious Diseases on Wednesday, presents antibody test results for >2500 healthcare workers and ...
Jeffrey S. MorrisOct 296 minWith all this arguing about herd immunity and lockdowns, let's see what the data say about SwedenWith all the arguing about "herd immunity" vs. lockdowns, and with Europe surging and lockdowns starting again in France and Germany, I t...
Jeffrey S. MorrisOct 251 minReminder to remain vigilant about risk of spreadNice article explaining more about spread The main messaging is that masks and distance are important, but people shouldn’t be careless t...
Jeffrey S. MorrisOct 251 minFDA getting cold feet about the possibility of an emergency use authorization for SARS-CoV-2 vaccineGood article discussing the valid concerns of the FDA offering an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a covid-19 vaccine. It is importa...
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...
