Covid-19 Data Science

Introduction In winter and spring 2021, hope was high that mRNA vaccines were going to be able to bring herd immunity and end the...

Summary of Key points: The UK ONS posted data on all COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 deaths in England from Jan1 through Oct31, 2021, split out...

I was interviewed by investigative journalist Surani Fernando for her podcast here in the episode on "Real World Vaccine Effectiveness"...

A surge involving the rapidly-transmitting Delta variant in heavily vaccinated countries has led to much hand-wringing that the vaccines...

A couple weeks ago, reports in Israel came out suggesting that Pfizer vaccine efficacy waned over time, sparking discussion of the...

There are numerous claims circulating on social media suggesting that the mRNA vaccines are dangerous to reproductive health and...

An open letter was published this past week in the leading scientific journal Science by a leading group of scientists urging for a...

Key points of this article: An article was published in Israel demonstrating those previously infected with PCR confirmed SARS-CoV-2...

The rapid vaccination of the population of Israel with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine coupled with its centralized universal healthcare...

Do the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines protect against infection and prevent transmission of the virus, or do they simply reduce symptoms of...

A group of researchers in Israel have put together a preliminary report tracking cases and hospitalizations since their nationwide...

With all of the talk of the Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech and AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines, and recent reports of preliminary data from Novavax...

The phase 3 studies for Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 vaccines yielded outstanding results -->94% efficacy in preventing...

Given this article is somewhat long and involved, I first summarize its key points: A new SARS-CoV-2 variant has emerged and taken over...

Today we received full data from both the Pfizer/BioNTech Phase 3 vaccine study and the Astrazeneca/Oxford vaccine trials that were...

The Atlantic published an informative article discussing the mRNA vaccines developed by BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna and what makes them...

My collaborator and leader of PolicyLab, David Rubin, was on Fox29 Philadelphia this morning for an extended time explaining why he...

ZdoggMD is a doctor who has become a charismatic entertaining purveyor of medical information online, who has been making frequent...

The WHO has published a medRxiv report of an interim analysis of their SOLIDARITY study, a large international randomized study comparing...

Three scientists, Dr. Martin Kulldorff from Harvard, Dr. Sunetra Gupta from Oxford, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford, have written...