We did this analysis last week and forgot to post. Currently updating it based on new data. Age: - In NYC, 73% of deaths were in people...

Given the prevalence of obesity in the US (40% over age 20 - which is correlated with SES) and numbers of elderly in facilities (1.3M) we...

A number of actors that are big on the global health scene seem to have taken over our domestic response as well. Models developed by...

It seems like NYC is finally getting around to surveillance. We did some work for the state earlier in April but they were unconvinced by...

Perhaps, at last, some hope that public health colleagues may be coming back to their senses. See this recent decision that the FDA will...

Sharing our new post from the Council on Foreign Relations These strategies, now being applied across a range of contexts, have never...

Corona virus serological self-test kits were mailed to1,000 residents of the Swedish capital Stockholm over the Easter weekend by the...

Lack of surveillance testing prevents an understanding of the extent to which the virus is already spread among populations. Evidence...

Sweden has reviewed the results from the contact tracing done on the first cases of coronavirus in the country. Swedish Radio News...

Check out our piece for the World Economic Forum https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/we-could-be-vastly-overestimating-the-death-rate-...

As of April 1, there has been 832 confirmed cases and 28 deaths in Rio de Janeiro, a state of 16.5 million inhabitants. Actual numbers...

Here is the story. And letting you know that in the next day or so there will be a model coming out of NYU and Columbia with predictions...

A report in the Swedish Radio (published 26 March 2020) tells us that the number of Swedes who will show up at hospital and test positive...

Two models were published today. One from Imperial College in the UK which is a revision of the model we wrote previously.. They have...

While models are important tools in the toolbox – and can be helpful for decision making – they are math exercises - built around a...

Following most countries in Europe, Finland is enforcing a 19-point list of emergency legislation that includes nationwide school,...

Over the next few days we are going to seriously bump up against the “dominator issue, which I am guessing will be the source of public...

Attached is also some data for Sweden, where there have been some interesting developments.  Report below in Swedish. Let us know if you...

It seems like we may be subject to “shelter in place”  in NYC following the example of France and other countries – and inspired by a...

Excellent new data from Remuzzi et al. in the Lancet “The mean age of those who died in Italy was 81 years and more than two-thirds of...