Covid-19 Data Science

My collaborator and leader of PolicyLab, David Rubin, was on Fox29 Philadelphia this morning for an extended time explaining why he...

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. ...

This study, just published in Clinical Infectious Diseases on Wednesday, presents antibody test results for >2500 healthcare workers and...

With all the arguing about "herd immunity" vs. lockdowns, and with Europe surging and lockdowns starting again in France and Germany, I...

Nice article explaining more about spread The main messaging is that masks and distance are important, but people shouldn’t be careless...

Good article discussing the valid concerns of the FDA offering an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a covid-19 vaccine. It is...

ZdoggMD is a doctor who has become a charismatic entertaining purveyor of medical information online, who has been making frequent...

The WHO has published a medRxiv report of an interim analysis of their SOLIDARITY study, a large international randomized study comparing...

Three scientists, Dr. Martin Kulldorff from Harvard, Dr. Sunetra Gupta from Oxford, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford, have written...

Here is a video of a presentation I have for the Business Institute for my undergraduate university Messiah University, a liberal arts...

This article in Nature in August presented a succinct, accessible, informative summary of what we know and don't know about immunity to...

A commentary was published in New England Journal of Medicine yesterday "Rethinking Covid-19 Tests Sensitivity -- A Strategy for...

A paper was just published yesterday in Science presenting results from a contact tracing study in two states in southern India that...

A study was just published in the Lancet on September 25 presenting results from the largest nationwide study to date assessing the...

The federal government micromanaging the scientific messaging coming from the CDC is a real problem, as emphasized by the NY Times...

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 has a Weekly Science Review that provides brief summary and discussion of major peer-reviewed scientific articles on...

I was asked to give a presentation by the University of Pennsylvania Faculty-Staff Christian Forum today, entitled "COVID-19: A...

I have previously posted about how I believe fast antigen tests are the key for surveillance and safe school reopenings here and here. ...

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...