by Usha Govindarajulu | Nov 23, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Healtcare, Usha Govindarajulu
Issues in COVID-19 research and statistical analyses (Part XVVXVVIV) November 23, 2022 In an article from November 11, 2022 in Health News from NPR, Rob Stein lays out the likelihood of two new Omicron subvariants, BQ.1 and BQ.11 of SARS-Cov-2 having become dominant...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Nov 9, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Healtcare, Usha Govindarajulu
November 9, 2022 In a recent article from November 1 in Science Immunology, the authors reported on their analysis of T-cell immunity four weeks and six months after different vaccination regimens and four weeks after an additional booster vaccination. This was a...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Oct 26, 2022 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Healtcare, Usha Govindarajulu
October 26, 2022 In a letter to the editor, the authors stated that they previously reported on the incidence of myocarditis in Israel after receipt of the BNT162b2 messenger RNA vaccine (Pfizer–BioNTech) against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) to have been the...
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...
