COVID19

December, 2020

Abstract

December, 2020

Key Points

Question  What is the household secondary attack rate for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)?

November, 2020

See Code - Global COVID-19 Forecast Comparison

https://github.com/pyliu47/covidcompare

Code to accompany paper below: See: https://github.com/csblab/covid19-public/

Predicting the Trajectory of Any COVID19 Epidemic From the Best Straight Line Michael Levitt, Andrea Scaiewicz, Francesco Zonta

See: https://www.datascienceassn.org/content/predicting-trajectory-any-covid19-epidemic-best-straight-line

June, 2020

Abstract

September, 2020

RT-PCR tests to detect severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA are the operational gold standard for detecting COVID-19 disease in clinical practice. RT-PCR assays in the UK have analytical sensitivity and specificity of greater than 95%, but no single gold standard assay exists.

November, 2020

When good science is suppressed by the medical-political complex, people die

Kamran Abbasi, executive editor

November, 2020

Results: Higher Covid death rates are observed in the [25/65°] latitude and in the [−35/−125°] longitude ranges. The national criteria most associated with death rate are life expectancy and its slowdown, public health context (metabolic and non-communicable diseases (NCD) burden vs. infectious diseases prevalence), economy (growth national product, financial support), and environment (temperature, ultra-violet index). Stringency of the measures settled to fight pandemia, including lockdown, did not appear to be linked with death rate.