Covid-19 Data Science

To what extent is societal vaccination saving lives? Are the vaccines really safe? Some active vaccine skeptics will present bits of...

Surani's second podcast in the series is now up -- this one talks about safety. I was one of the interviewees on this podcast. The...

I was interviewed by investigative journalist Surani Fernando for her podcast here in the episode on "Real World Vaccine Effectiveness"...

There a paper published in Toxicology Reports that included an analysis purporting to estimate causal vaccine deaths in the US claiming...

A paper published October 4, 2021 in The Lancet based on >3.4m USA patients found Pfizer vaccine effectiveness (VE) vs. infection...

A video that has been heavily circulated on social media this week is a presentation by attorney Thomas Renz claiming "We Got Them. Fact...

Summary of Key points: Blatantly misleading headlines have circulated on social media stating that that "FDA experts conclude Pfizer...

VAERs is an open reporting system put together by the FDA and CDC for people to enter in adverse events after vaccination for post...

On 9/24/21 I gave a talk at Virginia Tech on evaluating and aggregating emerging knowledge in the pandemic. It might be the most...

OK -- one more Simpson's paradox themed post. There is one more major point I want to make sure people realize to avoid misinterpreting...

An FDA panel voted on Friday to recommend 3rd shot boosters to adults over 65 in the USA. Are boosters a good idea? If so, do they have...

I have seen a lot of people obsessing with Table 5 of the August report put out the UK Public Health England focusing on the Delta...

The Israeli ministry of health (MoH) releases periodic vaccination reports on its Telegram site. Today, the following table was...

Key Points: I downloaded and analyzed data containing daily COVID-19 deaths and critical infection numbers from the Israeli ministry of...

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...

Excess deaths analyses is a useful calibration point for seeing how the pandemic has affected mortality that should be uncontroversial --...

There are numerous claims circulating on social media suggesting that the mRNA vaccines are dangerous to reproductive health and...

Summary points: The Delta variant has taken over the UK The cases are predominantly young people, especially unvaccinated ones. Nearly...

There are a number of individuals on social media confidently claiming the mRNA vaccines are dangerous and killing people, and implying...