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Calculating your risk of death or hospitalization if you are infected with the coronavirus requires good data – notably, the total number of infections in the US. Unfortunately, that data is fuzzy.
Some countries report higher rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths among men. This might be due to underreporting among women with limited health access.
A new report uncovers how temperature-related deaths and hospital admissions have changed since 2001.
COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing across the US. Testing has ramped up over the past few months, but increasing hospitalizations, deaths and test-positivity rates show that the virus is out of control.
Death rates for hospitalized COVID-19 patients fell from 25.6% in March to 7.6% in August, according to a new study on three hospitals in New York. A study in the UK found similar results.
Some have suggested the US allow healthy people to return to normal life, catch the coronavirus and get the population to herd immunity. The science says this plan is doomed to fail from the start.
Health statisticians keep careful tabs on how many people die every week. Based on what’s happened in past years, they know what to expect – but 2020 death counts are surging beyond predictions.
Using random testing, researchers in Indiana were able to calculate death rates by age, race, and sex and found sharp increases in risk of death among older and non-white state residents.
Health statisticians keep careful tabs on how many people die every week. Based on what’s happened in past years, they know what to expect – but 2020 death counts are surging beyond predictions.
A team of researchers from Indiana University performed random testing for SARS-CoV-2 across the state. The results offer some of the most accurate data to date about important aspects of the virus.
The percentage of people who die from a coronavirus infection is an important number for public health experts to know. Recent estimates now put it at 0.65%, far lower than initially thought.
The current calculation of the COVID-19 death rate in Indonesia does not reflect the reality on the ground.
Germans are struggling like the rest of the world with the coronavirus. And while Germans have a strong safety net and medical system, one thing may fall victim to the virus: relations with the US.
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Professor of Health Policy and Management, Indiana University
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Professor of Statistics and Interim Dean, College of Science, Virginia Tech
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Associate Professor of Public Health at Monash University Indonesia, Eijkman-Oxford Clinical Research Unit (EOCRU)
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Medicine, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Indiana University
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Assistant Professor of Information Science and Technology, Penn State
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Disease Ecology Research Scientist, Montana State University
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PhD Candidate in Climate Change and Health, University of Reading
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Professor and Chair of Behavioral and Community Health, University of Pittsburgh
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Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Sustainable Urban Development, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
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Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Professor of History and International Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
