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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

Asymptomatic and Mild Cases of COVID-19: potential concern
Article looking at immune response and possible immunity or not -- we still have a lot to learn!

Texas A&M pandemic expert: Coronavirus will have 5 stages: We're in stage 2
Great article from Houston Chronicle interviewing Gerald Parker, Texas A&M expert on pandemics with government experience, describing...

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...

Results from Controlled Trial of HCQ for COVID-19
One small randomized clinical trial result. 62 patients randomized to best care + placebo or HCQ 200mg 2x/day for 5 days and evaluate for...

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...

Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Data
Interesting — Google has aggregated data to show how people’s mobility habits have changed in past few weeks — in most US states we see a...

IHME COVID-19 Predictions
IHME: Great site with data on USA and states that includes health care capacity, projected peak, etc. from statistical modeling with fits...

Ibuprofen does not worsen COVID-19
Penn Today report: No follow up evidence has emerged supporting the notion that ibuprofen worsens covid infection

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...


























