Covid-19 Data Science

One theme I've seen play out during this pandemic is that the political divisions and culture wars that have increasingly characterized o...

Let's look at an update of what we are seeing in surging states using our updated COVID-TRACKING app. Here I plot 7-day moving average o...

Researchers at Georgia Tech have put together a nice web app that computes the probability of encountering a SARS-CoV-2 positive person i...

What is driving this new viral surge? At the end of May, the virus seemed relatively under control in the USA, with most places seeing d...

The SEC commissioner said "we are running out of time" to get the virus under control if there is going to be a college football season. ...

We have updated our covid tracking plotting app to allow daily/smoothed/per capita plots. Here is the 7-day moving average for new case...

The PolicyLab group has put out a new blog post discussing projections for July in the 519 counties included in the model. I encourage y...

Collaborator David Rubin from CHOP, the leader of the PolicyLab COVID-19 modeling efforts, did a podcast for "Y'all-itics" with Jason Whi...

The past few weeks have seen an alarming surge of incidence of SARS-CoV-2 in Arizona, Texas, Florida, and South Carolina, with upticks th...

I participated in a podcast led by my colleagues Jason Moore and Marylyn Ritchie last week. They put out this interesting podcast on iss...

Yesterday, Marlin and Julie Eby were interviewed at their church about their experiences with COVID-19. Both became positive in early Ma...

As states have reopened, the media has watched carefully for evidence of a "surge". Some naive analyses look only at cases/day, which co...

Since states started opening up from stay-at-home orders in late April, we have seen heterogeneous results. Some states have showed cont...

I did an interview on a livestream at our church, Church of the Saviour in Wayne, PA this morning after the service. We discussed some o...

Unherd.com has published an article discussing some ideas about COVID-19 with Karl Friston, who is a leading and impactful statistical da...

Today, I was interviewed for the Gist podcast by Mike Pesca -- kool dude, great podcast and I was honored to get to be interviewed on it ...

Blue Zones published this insightful interview with Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, an acclaimed expert in epidemiology of infectious diseas...

The Lancet just published a paper presenting a meta-analysis to quantify the mitigative effect of mask wearing and social distancing in p...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly every state in the United States instituted lockdowns of some sort -- most with stay-at-home...

These thoughts are increasingly coming to mind.  I support my black friends and the idea of coming together to battle racism, but as I se...