by Usha Govindarajulu | Feb 17, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Usha Govindarajulu
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...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Feb 4, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, New York, Professor, Usha Govindarajulu
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...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Jan 20, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Professor, Usha Govindarajulu
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...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Jan 7, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Healtcare
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...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Dec 22, 2021 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Usha Govindarajulu
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...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Dec 9, 2021 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Usha Govindarajulu
December 9, 2021 The new variant for Omicron is causing a lot of stir around the world. Most of the data analysis conducted thus far has been preliminary and other planned data analyses are taking weeks in order to understand the potential severity of the variant and...