Covid-19 Data Science

Penn Biostatistics colleague Jing Huang has worked with CHOP collaborators Gregory Tasian and David Rubin, director of PolicyLab, to...

Article in Sciencemag.org This article describes newly reported efforts to study famotidine, the active compound in OTC heartburn drug...

This article presents detailed recommendations for next steps for India done by the covid19-india group led by Bhramar Mukherjee. Very...

Washington Post article -- interesting -- strange how this virus isn't what it first appeared to be, and how crucial cardiovascular...

An article in Nature Reviews drug discovery summarizes current vaccine developments -- 5 in phase 1 clinical trials already and many...

JAMA paper reporting characteristics of NYC hospital system infected — some key statistics: - 94% had comorbidities, most commonly high...

Nice article posted by my epidemiology colleague John H Holmes who has been trapped in Northern Italy during this crisis. Is a nice...

Interest article from fivethirtyeight.com talking about our tricky situation with covid testing

Current NIH recommendations on Covid-19 Treatment: * No treatment shown to be safe and effective yet. * Remdesivir and HCQ/CQ said to...

Guidelines from CenterforHealthSecurity.org: The contact tracing is most difficult part in the USA right now.

Informative article from Science discussing the many ways this virus attacks the body. Really nasty virus and different from anything...

Nice article on Project-Syndicate discussing Swedish strategy to covid that did not practice social distancing until much later and did...

Article from Boston Globe: Not scientific study but 30% of these seemingly healthy people out in the streets in Chelsea showed antibodies...

Here is a blog in Science Translational Medicine that looks at available evidence for the three main antiviral treatment regimens being...

Great private-partnership effort to try to coordinate the hundreds of civid-related research studies so we can most effectively and...

Interesting article from my favorite balanced political website RealClearPolitics tracking the media's discussion of the virus, seeing as...

New paper on medrxiv yesterday reporting results from (open label) randomized study of Hydroxychloroquine (no Azithromycin) + standard of...

Science magazine describes international WHO clinical trial for covid-19. It randomizes between local standard of care, Remdisivir,...

Article in the Observer from two well-know statisticians, Sylvia Richardson and David Spiegelhalter, summarizing the trickiness of...