Covid-19 Data Science

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...

An open letter was published this past week in the leading scientific journal Science by a leading group of scientists urging for a...

Statistics in Medicine just published an article that my colleague Susan Ellenberg and I wrote comparing and contrasting the HIV-AIDS and...

Here is an .mp4 file of a Keynote address I gave at the Innovations in Design and Analysis & Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistics...

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

An interim report was published today of a study following essential workers at 6 centers in the USA to assess efficacy of the Moderna or...

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

Key points: The UK variant B.1.1.7 has become the dominant strain in the USA, going from 0.1% prevalence on January 1 to up near 50%...

The Johnson and Johnson/Janssen vaccine was just given emergency use approval by the FDA this weekend based on a phase 3 study called...

On February 24, I gave a presentation (video link here) to the Messiah University Business Institute talking about various topics,...

I was interviewed for this podcast "The CoVax Files" by Surani Fernando, a healthcare journalist. This series has been great -- this is...

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...