Covid-19 Data Science

Nature just published an informative review article discussing mutations and mutation rate in SARS-CoV-2, with special discussion of a...

This video by Ivor Cummins describes some of his unconventional viewpoints. He supports the position that mandatory lockdowns were not...

I see too many recent reports suggesting attempts at political influence over the scientific messaging coming from the CDC, FDA, and NIH...

A NY Times article published today talks about some seldom-discussed limitations of current PCR testing and highlights some of the...

From the PolicyLab testing data from HHS, below is a plot of SARS-CoV-2 testing rate of each county per 100k residents, with hotter...

This week the FDA gave emergency approval for the use of convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19, making the strategy broadly available to...

The PolicyLab team of collaborators at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania has assembled a new data...

School openings will bring hundreds to thousands of individuals together for long periods of time from communities with substantial...

Several times I have mentioned the PolicyLab COVID-19 modeling efforts in which I have been privileged to be a part, and that I believe...

A paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine gives us insights into why it is so hard to keep the spread of this virus under control:...

This post is following up on my previous post on how difficult the school opening decision is. A lot of people have been mentioning to...

I was interviewed by Dr. Steven Wexner, MD, for the American College of Surgeons as part of their "From the Frontlines" interview series....

This article describes Israels' experience with the pandemic, in which sudden and apparently careless opening of schools seems to have...

Our serology (antibody test) working group at Penn has completed some research studying the seropositivity of pregnant women in the...

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

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...

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

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...

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...