Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVXIV)
July 5, 2022 In a recent article in NPR’s public health page, “Still testing positive after day 10? How to decide when to end your COVID isolation”, Will Stone discusses a big dilemma that many people face which is how long to isolate after they had COVID-19...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVXIII)
June 22, 2022 In a recent article in News Medical Lifesciences, they have discussed a recent research paper published as an accepted manuscript in the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal in which the scientists analyzed the population immunity against pre-Omicron and...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVXII)
June 9, 2022 In a recent article in the Boston Globe by Felicia Freyer, “‘Mild’ Omicron variant was highly lethal, the study finds that at least in Massachusetts, an Eastern state of the United States, that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 was not so mild. A...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVXI)
May 25, 2022 In a recent article in The Mirror, the author gives a haunting statement that SARS-CoV-2 can cause cells to explode after entering cells which can lead to severe damage. The authors quotes a recent article in Nature from April 6 in which the researchers...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVX)
May 11, 2022 In an article that appeared in Nature on May 5, 2022, the authors discuss a comparison of rapid antigen test (RAT) oral swab collection with rapid PCT (RT-PCR) on detection of SARS-CoV-2, but when we read through the article it is mainly more of a...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVIX)
April 27, 2022 In a very interesting recent article that appeared in the Harvard Gazette on April 21, attention is brought to the negative effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on childrens’ mental health. The article appears to be focused on surveys done in 1999, 2004,...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVVIII)
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVVIII) April 13, 2022 In one of the latest Scientific American article, “What We Know about Omicron’s BA.2 Variant So Far”, the article summarizes some of the latest research about this new COVID-19 variant,...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVVII)
March 30, 2022 Latest research published in the Lancet shows diabetes onset was higher for those with post-acute sequelae or long-haul COVID-19 however these may be preliminary results. The results came from a cohort study which used databases from the United States...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVVI)
March 15, 2022 In a recent article in The Scientist than appeared back in January, they mentioned using several pre-print articles which are cited for this article. In one of the pre-print articles by Adamson et al published on March 5 about a very recent small study...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVV)
March 2, 2022 According to a February 28, 2022 recent article n U.S. News World based on several studies, the research is suggestive that the Wuhan China wet market was the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article is largely based on two pre-print studies, meaning...