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...
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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
New report from CDC suggests that COVID primarily spreads person-to-person through respiratory droplets, and that contaminated surfaces...
Science magazine discusses a paper just published in Cell describes a study that shows CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells in the immune system of...
Here is an interesting report presenting a state-by-state count of nursing home mortality. It shows that across all states, >53% of all...
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...
Georgia very controversially lifted their lockdowns on April 24, 3 weeks ago, raising concerns of a second "surge" and with some warning...
Worldometers.info that provides real-time statistics about world population and other things put up a description of how they are...
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...
Nice paper in Science reporting estimates of proportion of infected, hospitalized, ICU, and death rate in France, split out by age and...
A JAMA paper was just published that reports results from a large observational cohort study in NYC area. The first author is Eli...
Another insightful blog post by Erin Bromage talking about a study published by Nature that demonstrated that unlike other viruses like...
Here is a GREAT blog post from Erin Bromage, a professor of microbiology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and blogger of...
A recent article was posted on line (not peer reviewed yet) from late last month performing an epidemiological model based analysis...
Given their controversial lifting of lockdowns that even president Trump thought was too extreme, Georgia will be important to watch in...
Katherine Kersten published a commentary discussing the lockdown in Minnesota. There are lots of commentaries making similar points...
Endcoronavirus.org has some interesting, simple graphics that show the shape of the incidence curve by country or state, and classifies...
People keep passing around links to a ~30 minute video "documentary" by Judy Mikovits making all kinds of claims, some regarding COVID-19...
A Mount Sinai study published in the American Journal of Cardiology demonstrates that hospitalized patients given blood thinners have...
This medRxiv paper (not peer reviewed yet) presents a cohort study of >17 million medical records that includes >5500 COVID-19 related...
Nice article in WSJ talking about how the key question is how we can relax total lockdowns to more targeted social distancing to mitigate...
My PhD student Emma Zohner has updated our web application to study testing , incidence and mortality by state for the USA or by country...