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Covid-19 Data Science
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

Children unlikely to be main drivers of COVID-19 pandemic -- systematic review.
An article just published in Acta Paediatric presents results from a literature review to assess whether it is likely that children are...

Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don’t spread the virus at all?
Interesting article in Science discusses how SARS-CoV-2 seems to spread in clusters through super-spread events, and the implications of...

COVID-19 does not easily spread via contaminated surfaces, CDC says
New report from CDC suggests that COVID primarily spreads person-to-person through respiratory droplets, and that contaminated surfaces...

Cell paper sheds may shed light on why some SARS-CoV-2 patients do better.
Science magazine discusses a paper just published in Cell describes a study that shows CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells in the immune system of...

>50% of USA and European COVID-19 mortalities are from Nursing Homes/Long-term Care Facilities
Here is an interesting report presenting a state-by-state count of nursing home mortality. It shows that across all states, >53% of all...

Study suggests travel from NYC likely seeded much of USA SARS-CoV-2 spread
An interesting article in the NY Times makes the claim that much of the SARS-CoV-2 spread in the USA relates back to an outbreak in NYC...

How is Georgia doing? What happens when states lift lockdowns?
Georgia very controversially lifted their lockdowns on April 24, 3 weeks ago, raising concerns of a second "surge" and with some warning...

An attempt at careful estimation of infection and mortality rates of COVID-19 in NY
Worldometers.info that provides real-time statistics about world population and other things put up a description of how they are...

How to Reopen America Safely
A much-needed perspective is clearly conveyed in today's Op-Ed piece in the NY Times by Marty Makary, a surgeon and professor of health...

Estimating the Incidence, Hospitalization, ICU and Death Rate of SARS-CoV-2 in France by Age/Sex
Nice paper in Science reporting estimates of proportion of infected, hospitalized, ICU, and death rate in France, split out by age and...

Report from Large NY Observational Study on HCQ
A JAMA paper was just published that reports results from a large observational cohort study in NYC area. The first author is Eli...

The 5-day window of asymptomatic spread
Another insightful blog post by Erin Bromage talking about a study published by Nature that demonstrated that unlike other viruses like...

How to navigate the risks we face as we venture out from lockdowns...
Here is a GREAT blog post from Erin Bromage, a professor of microbiology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and blogger of...

Do masks slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2?
A recent article was posted on line (not peer reviewed yet) from late last month performing an epidemiological model based analysis...

Let's Keep an Eye on Georgia
Given their controversial lifting of lockdowns that even president Trump thought was too extreme, Georgia will be important to watch in...

Commentary from Minnesota: Lockdowns a pandemic of fear?
Katherine Kersten published a commentary discussing the lockdown in Minnesota. There are lots of commentaries making similar points...

Identifying "winning" countries and states
Endcoronavirus.org has some interesting, simple graphics that show the shape of the incidence curve by country or state, and classifies...

Judy Mikovits and COVID-19
People keep passing around links to a ~30 minute video "documentary" by Judy Mikovits making all kinds of claims, some regarding COVID-19...

Blood thinners may improve survival among hospitalized COVID-19 patients
A Mount Sinai study published in the American Journal of Cardiology demonstrates that hospitalized patients given blood thinners have...


























