by Usha Govindarajulu | Jun 23, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Healtcare, Usha Govindarajulu
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...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Jun 9, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Usha Govindarajulu
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...
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 27, 2022 | Blog, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Healtcare, Usha Govindarajulu
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,...
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,...
