With this massive nationwide surge in cases and hospitalizations, is it time to hunker down again?
My collaborator and leader of PolicyLab, David Rubin, was on Fox29 Philadelphia this morning for an extended time explaining why he...
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GREAT News about SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine from Pfizer/BioNtech! Some statistical perspective.
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. ...
Published paper shows nearly 95% still had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies after 6 months.
This study, just published in Clinical Infectious Diseases on Wednesday, presents antibody test results for >2500 healthcare workers and...
With all this arguing about herd immunity and lockdowns, let's see what the data say about Sweden
With all the arguing about "herd immunity" vs. lockdowns, and with Europe surging and lockdowns starting again in France and Germany, I...
Reminder to remain vigilant about risk of spread
Nice article explaining more about spread The main messaging is that masks and distance are important, but people shouldn’t be careless...
FDA getting cold feet about the possibility of an emergency use authorization for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine
Good article discussing the valid concerns of the FDA offering an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a covid-19 vaccine. It is...
2 minute summary of what we should be doing about the pandemic
ZdoggMD is a doctor who has become a charismatic entertaining purveyor of medical information online, who has been making frequent...
Interim Analysis of WHO SOLIDARITY study bad news for Remdesivir and other treatments
The WHO has published a medRxiv report of an interim analysis of their SOLIDARITY study, a large international randomized study comparing...
What about this "Great Barrington Declaration" suggesting we seek fast herd immunity?
Three scientists, Dr. Martin Kulldorff from Harvard, Dr. Sunetra Gupta from Oxford, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford, have written...
What have we learned about COVID-19, and what can we expect? The statistics that matter.
Here is a video of a presentation I have for the Business Institute for my undergraduate university Messiah University, a liberal arts...
Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2 and Prospects for Vaccine
This article in Nature in August presented a succinct, accessible, informative summary of what we know and don't know about immunity to...
Rethinking Covid-19 Test Sensitivity — A Strategy for Containment: (Antigen Tests!!!)
A commentary was published in New England Journal of Medicine yesterday "Rethinking Covid-19 Tests Sensitivity -- A Strategy for...
Large contact tracing study in India confirms many aspects of COVID-19 spread and risk
A paper was just published yesterday in Science presenting results from a contact tracing study in two states in southern India that...
What proportion of the US population is susceptible, & what does it mean for possible herd immunity?
A study was just published in the Lancet on September 25 presenting results from the largest nationwide study to date assessing the...
Executive pressure on CDC messaging: Failure of effective collaboration in school opening decisions
The federal government micromanaging the scientific messaging coming from the CDC is a real problem, as emphasized by the NY Times...
A Seat at the Table: Key role of Biostatistics in the pandemic, and what we have learned so far
I gave a presentation at University of Pittsburgh (virtually of course) on 9/24/20, and discussed my motivation and vision for this blog,...
Prevent Epidemics: great resources for reliable updates on scientific findings in pandemic
Prevent Epidemics has a Weekly Science Review that provides brief summary and discussion of major peer-reviewed scientific articles on...
What is our current state of pandemic knowledge, and what can we expect in the next year?
I was asked to give a presentation by the University of Pennsylvania Faculty-Staff Christian Forum today, entitled "COVID-19: A...
More discussion of fast antigen tests, potentially the key to safe school reopenings.
I have previously posted about how I believe fast antigen tests are the key for surveillance and safe school reopenings here and here. ...
Texas, we have a (data) problem.
Here is a recent report talking about some of the data recording problems in Texas, which has been a mess for a long time. The gist of...