Blog
Notes and updates on statistics, infectious disease modeling, and other miscellaneous topics.
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Moving to quarto
tl;dr; porting to Quarto was not terrible. Also moving from GitHub pages to Netlify at the same time was a bit much. I finally made the jump to Quarto. I...
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Pfizer BNT162b2 for Under 5s
As the parent to a child under the age of five, I have been anxiously awaiting news regarding the availability of a vaccine against COVID-19 for some time. The news...
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An article
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An Engineering Mindset to Public Health
Engineering and Public Health The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated their COVID-19 guidelines for isolation and quarantine^ [ Remember, isolate if you are positive, quarantine if you are...
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Can Bayesian Analysis Save Paxlovid?
Paxlovid Paxlovid is a new antiviral (protease inhibitor) that when paired with ritonavir provides excellent protection against hospitalization for those patients infected with SARS-CoV-2. Pfizer, the manufacturer, had two endpoints....
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Waste Water Monitoring and COVID-19
NCDHHS has been participating in waste-water surveillance for SARS-CoV-2. Unfortunately, there is some delay in the data (posted weekly and what is posted is generally a week old or more)....
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Advantage of Bayesian Hypothesis Testing
A colleague sent me the following table from a report from the UK REACT Survey: The argument being made was that those persons who were infected with the AY4.2 variant...
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Neutralizing Antibody Titres
Reading the Pre-Prints A prominant scientist has been posting his highlights of pre-prints on twitter during the course of the pandemic and occasionally, I come across one that makes me...
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Thinking About Viral Evolution
I have been re-reading Anderson and May. Each time I come back to the book I find gems that are highly salient to what's going on the world today. The...
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RProfiles
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