In July 2020, daily resolution-level forecasts for COVID-19 deaths were discontinued, and the effort expanded to include forecasts of weekly incident cases at the county, state, and national levels. Forecasts may include a point prediction and/or quantiles of a predictive distribution. Table 1 ...
June 12, 2020: Massachusetts | Cases from April 15 to June 11 were updated to match official updateded statistics from the Massachusetts government raw data - County.csv. This change arose due to to release of historical probable cases by the state. The alteration distributes probable cases and...
July 2, 2021 Lottery-Based Incentive in Ohio and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Allan J. Walkey, MD, MSc1;Anica Law, MD, MS1;Nicholas A. Bosch, MD, MSc1 Author AffiliationsArticle Information JAMA.2021;326(8):766-767. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.11048 ...
Naively using the raw number of confirmed COVID-19 cases or the proportion of the positive cases in a population as a measure of the variations in COVID-19 transmission ignores the spatio-temporal autocorrelation that characterises the disease dynamics. Moreover, it also ignores the potential eff...
Visitation is permitted at nursing homes in Ohio if the facilities meet the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) criteria: No new onset of COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days; The facility is not currently conducting outbreak testing; and CMS reports the COVID-19 county ...
Early data in the COVID-19 outbreak suggested that the developing world/LMIC (lower and middle income countries) were at a lower risk for infection, attributable to the window of preparation with early cases largely from the developed world and the lower mean age among residents of the LMIC....
at the county-by-party-by-age level. The age ranges used were 25 to 64, 65 to 74, 75 to 84, and 85 years or older. The observed death counts included all the deaths from our mortality data that linked to Republican or Democratic voters who were registered in Florida and Ohio as of...
America experienced a wave of COVID-19 cases driven by the Alpha variant in early Spring 2021 – a time when the U.S. vaccination program was administering a record number of vaccines every day. The Delta variant, which was more than twice as contagious as the original coronavirus strain, ...
California and LA Countyare going along with new directives from the CDC, which conclude that masks are no longer necessary for people who’ve received both shots when you’re outside and away from crowds. And they specifically call out bicycling as safe to do without a mask. ...
What is the mechanism by which closing schools could potentially impact COVID-19 cases and mortalities? Closing schools disrupts child-to-child interaction, child-to-adult and adult-to-child interaction within schools, as well as adult-to-adult interaction outside of schools. Parents must alter ...