Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVXVV)
September 26, 2022 A recent article in New Medical Life Sciences, “Researchers explore neurological manifestations among long COVID patients” focuses on an article that appeared in Nature Medicine regarding a published study on assessing long-term neurological...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVXVIV)
September 14, 2022 According to a recent article in Nature Communications, regular rapid testing provided two-fold benefits: identifying infectious individuals and providing positive tests sufficiently early during infection that treatment with antivirals can...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVXVIII)
August 31, 2022 In a recent article in NEJM that appeared this month, researchers conducted a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial of metformin, ivermectin, and fluvoxamine to study their effectiveness against outcomes related to COVID-19. They used a 2x3...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVXVII)
August 17, 2022 In a recent article in Asthma and Allergy, Sohn et al discuss what the impacts were for patients with severe asthma who wore masks during the pandemic in South Korea. Patients in the study were recruited from 5 university hospitals in 3 different...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVXVI)
August 3, 2022 In a recent article in BMJ Global Health, James et al discuss a statistical analysis they performed on retrospective data on SARS-CoV-2 infections during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan African countries using World Health...
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...