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...

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

A research team at University of Pennsylvania led by my immunologist colleague John Wherry just posted a paper on medRXiv looking at the...

A preprint was posted today on the Lancet site present results of a study investigating efficacy of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in health...

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...

A University of Pennsylvania-Children's Hospital of Philadelphia research team with which I collaborate just published a paper in JAMA...

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...

A paper just published in Nature Communications yesterday measured neutralizing antibody levels in 195 individuals with PCR confirmed...

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

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. ...

This study, just published in Clinical Infectious Diseases on Wednesday, presents antibody test results for >2500 healthcare workers and...