Covid-19 Data Science

Blue Zones published this insightful interview with Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, an acclaimed expert in epidemiology of infectious...

The WSJ had an article discussing the uptick in prescriptions for anti-anxiety, anti-depression, and sleep-aid drugs in the USA relative...

I hear from many of my Houston area friends how excited they are that lockdowns have been lifted, and they can return to some sense of...

Interesting article in Science discusses how SARS-CoV-2 seems to spread in clusters through super-spread events, and the implications of...

Georgia very controversially lifted their lockdowns on April 24, 3 weeks ago, raising concerns of a second "surge" and with some warning...

Here is a GREAT blog post from Erin Bromage, a professor of microbiology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and blogger of...

Given their controversial lifting of lockdowns that even president Trump thought was too extreme, Georgia will be important to watch in...

Katherine Kersten published a commentary discussing the lockdown in Minnesota. There are lots of commentaries making similar points...

People keep passing around links to a ~30 minute video "documentary" by Judy Mikovits making all kinds of claims, some regarding COVID-19...

Nice article in WSJ talking about how the key question is how we can relax total lockdowns to more targeted social distancing to mitigate...

In response to a friend's concern that the lifting of lockdown restrictions is somehow encouraging and enabling reckless behavior, I put...

One of my long-time collaborators, Professor Philip Brown of the University of Kent at Canterbury, and two colleagues have written a...

The FDA has revised their policy on antibody testing approval to try to combat what they see as fraudulent and illicit claims made by...

Opinion piece in the Scientist provides good information about the problems in some of the reported serology tests. It discusses some of...

Article in Philadelphia Inquirer today about training dogs to recognize SARS-CoV-2 infections in samples, and then seeing if they can be...

This opinion piece in TheHill by Scott Atlas, a Stanford health policy expert, makes the case for a relaxation of current lockdowns based...

Nice NY Times opinion piece on Laurie Garrett, who wrote extensively about the lack of preparation in the world for pandemic for years,...

USA Today article mentions that 16,000, or about 25% of all USA deaths from COVID-19, have occurred at nursing homes. This is staggering!...

Science article discusses a very unusual symptom of COVID-19 -- alarmingly low blood oxygen levels in people that seem to feel fine. Our...

This NY times article mentions how in some parts of the world extreme lockdowns have major consequences far beyond what the USA is...