Search Tag: epidemiology
2020 08 Dec
Without a national and coordinated response to COVID-19, the United States has been ineffective at preventing and mitigating the escalating pandemic. What the country needs, according to new research ( Post et al. 2020) , is a dynamic public health surveillance to better inform prevention efforts. You might also like: COVID-19: Immunity-Based...Read more
2020 27 Aug
During the initial wave of the COVID-19 contagion, many countries recorded infection curves that were linear for extended time periods. This linear growth over an extended time interval is in contrast to the S-shaped curves expected from standard epidemiological models. You might also like: Mobility, Connectivity and Pandemics of Modern...Read more
2020 22 Jun
New research from Guangzhou, China has found that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the pathogen that causes COVID-19, can be transmitted faster within households as compared to SARS-CoV and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). You might also like: Alternating Lockdowns and Relaxation...Read more