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...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVIII)
February 22, 2022 In a pre-print article published recently, the authors used life table and survival analyses methods to compare probability of dying from COVID-19 against probability of dying from other causes using data from the province Hubei of China, of which...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVIII)
February 2, 2022 A recent article in the Lancet Infectious Diseases presents a large scale study of post-vaccination infection conducted in the United Kingdom to assess potential long-haul symptoms. It was a prospective, community-based, nested, case-control study...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVII)
January 18, 2022 A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) presents results from a large cohort study from New York State on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness. They used data for 8,690,825 adults in New York State to assess the effectiveness of the...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVI)
January 5, 2022 With the ongoing rise in COVID-19 cases due to the Omicron variant of Sars-Cov-2, we searched for some actual studies on the change in vaccine efficacy due to Omicron exposure. In one pre-print article, Buchan et al studied 3,442...
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVV)
The new variant of COVID-19, Omicron, and boosters from vaccines has been receiving a lot of press. In an article published in BMJ on December 14, 2021, “Covid-19: Omicron and the need for boosters”, the authors take us through a detailed summary about how a booster...