by Usha Govindarajulu | Sep 14, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Healtcare
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...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Aug 31, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Healtcare, Usha Govindarajulu
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...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Aug 17, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Healtcare, Usha Govindarajulu
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...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Aug 3, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Healtcare, Usha Govindarajulu
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...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Jul 29, 2022 | Biostatistics, COVID-19
July 15, 2022 In a recent article in Science Advances , Lee et al discuss the changes in menstrual bleeding after Sars-CoV-2 vaccination that women in different groups of oral contraceptive use, hormones, or post-menopausal for a large part reported breakthrough...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Jul 6, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Healtcare
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...
