July 1st Impressions: is the southern and western COVID-19 surge spreading?
The PolicyLab group has put out a new blog post discussing projections for July in the 519 counties included in the model. I encourage...
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Finding the signal in the noise of Covid-19
Reporting and balanced evaluation of research results, data sets, applications and models, and commentaries related to Covid-19 and its underlying virus, SARS-Cov-2
The PolicyLab group has put out a new blog post discussing projections for July in the 519 counties included in the model. I encourage...
Collaborator David Rubin from CHOP, the leader of the PolicyLab COVID-19 modeling efforts, did a podcast for "Y'all-itics" with Jason...
The past few weeks have seen an alarming surge of incidence of SARS-CoV-2 in Arizona, Texas, Florida, and South Carolina, with upticks...
I participated in a podcast led by my colleagues Jason Moore and Marylyn Ritchie last week. They put out this interesting podcast on...
Yesterday, Marlin and Julie Eby were interviewed at their church about their experiences with COVID-19. Both became positive in early...
As states have reopened, the media has watched carefully for evidence of a "surge". Some naive analyses look only at cases/day, which...
Since states started opening up from stay-at-home orders in late April, we have seen heterogeneous results. Some states have showed...
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...
Unherd.com has published an article discussing some ideas about COVID-19 with Karl Friston, who is a leading and impactful statistical...
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...
The Lancet just published a paper presenting a meta-analysis to quantify the mitigative effect of mask wearing and social distancing in...
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...
A paper was just published in Cell, a top biological journal, presenting results from a study that has identified a targeted antibody...
A newly published paper in Lancet Rheumatology presents results from a study assessing the effect of Anakinra, a recombinant IL-1...
This covid pandemic has brought the whole world to its knees, and stimulated an unprecedented level of focus and urgency to quickly...
STAT has an article discussing some emerging details of unique ways that the SARS-CoV-2 virus interacts with the immune system and...
The WSJ had an article discussing the uptick in prescriptions for anti-anxiety, anti-depression, and sleep-aid drugs in the USA relative...
I hear from many of my Houston area friends how excited they are that lockdowns have been lifted, and they can return to some sense of...