by Usha Govindarajulu | May 25, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Usha Govindarajulu
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...
by Usha Govindarajulu | May 11, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Healtcare
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...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Apr 13, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Healtcare, Usha Govindarajulu
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,...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Mar 30, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Healtcare, Usha Govindarajulu
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...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Mar 16, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Healtcare, Usha Govindarajulu
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...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Mar 2, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Usha Govindarajulu
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...