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Covid-19 Data Science
Finding the signal in the noise of Covid-19
Reporting and balanced evaluation of research results, data sets, applications and models, and commentaries related to Covid-19 and its underlying virus, SARS-Cov-2

COVID antibody test shows German town 15% infected
Article in Spectator USA: Interesting — in the next few months we should get a clearer picture of what % of us were exposed to the virus...

Penn Today Article by Zeke Emanuel: Is US winning COVID-19 war?
This article from Penn Today conveys the thoughts of Penn colleague Zeke Emanuel, one of the key authors of the Affordable Care Act,...

Whistleblower doctors say coronavirus infection may be even deadlier
NY Post article: Just something to be careful and mindful of: as we get blood based antibody tests, many assume having the antibodies...

French hospital reports HCQ cardiac event
This article reports on a clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine in combination with other treatments, that was aptly monitoring cardiac...

Ventilators being overused for Covid-19?
Article in STAT: I’ve seen a few reports and articles the past couple days that question the high level of ventilator use with advanced...

Hold the Line: Metropole
Nice article — we will see really bad news in rising incidence, hospitalizations, and deaths the next two weeks but this does not mean...

Penn launches randomized HCQ trials
Here is information on the 3 UPenn trials studying Hydroxychloroquine for covid-19 treatment and prevention. You guys on my FB page know...

NY Doctor Gives Common Sense Advice on avoiding COVID-19
NY doctor giving common sense advice about how to prevent getting covid and dealing with it someone in your house has it.

Italian report showing extensive % with CoV antibodies
You need to google translate this article from Italian, but apparently in one part of Northern Italy, out of 60 healthy blood donors, 40...

Coronavirus Case Counts are Meaningless
Great article from Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com explaining how variability in testing practices across states and countries and...

Modeling COVID-19 in India
This article is from a team of statisticians including two good friends of mineBhramar MukherjeeandVeera Baladandayuthapani. Bhramar has...

Doctor mentions opinion of efficacy of HCQ+Zpak for COVID-19
This one doctor believes in HCQ+Zpac and has had remarkable results with it. In my sample of size 1, my undergraduate statistics mentor...

Illustrated guide to chest CT in COVID-19
Interesting article -- thanks Jerome von Mechow!

Social distancing may be "breaking the chain" of coronavirus infections
Article describes interesting way to stealthfully track the spread of fever-causing viruses!

7 Medical Leaders to Politicians: Save Lives, Not Wall Street
Message from our Dean at Penn; warns that we should not rush to end social distancing too soon, especially in intense outbreak areas; and...

Report from Penn Epidemiologist Stuck in Northern Italy
This is from my Epidemiology colleague John H Holmes who is right in the epicenter of the Italian outbreak — he nicely describes some of...

NIH Director: "We're on Exponential Curve"
Great article about NIH Director Francis Collins perspective on COVID-19 — he affirms we need to practice social distancing to flatten...

Zeke Emanuel Op-Ed: Coronavirus here to stay: Now what?
This is an editorial from Zeke Emmanuel here at Penn, and our chair of DBEI Susan Ellenberg and epidemiology colleague Michael Levy. You...

























