FRONT PAGE Vaccination effectiveness. What percentage of the U.S. population will have to get vaccinated to have an impact on the spread of the pandemic? Herd immunity is an end stage of a pandemic when enough of a population has developed immunity to protect the rest of the population that is not yet immune. Herd immunity stops the spread …
CovidGram: Vaccine effectiveness – December 11, 2020
a Covid news digest for the period November 21 – December 11, 2020 FINAL EDITION FRONT PAGE Vaccines – how effective are they and how often do they need to be repeated? There are four front-runners in the race to government approval. CovidGram takes an in-depth look at the two vaccines that use mRNA technology. As of December 11, Pfizer-BioNTech’s …
CovidGram: Contact tracing app, mask recommendation – November 20, 2020
a Covid news digest for the period October 24 – November 20, 2020 FINAL EDITION FRONT PAGE CovidGram is back now after a few weeks off. On the other hand, far from taking a break, the pandemic has only intensified. This issue reviews several new Covid-related technologies, but as a general rule, CovidGram does not endorse any …
CovidGram: Testing and aerosol transmission – August 14, 2020
I. Testing What are the barriers preventing better testing in the U.S.? How can the U.S. get faster accurate testing results? How widespread is contact tracing? Is the reason for paper tests’ low accuracy of about 50% sensitivity the quantitative threshold of virus units it can detect, or is there a more qualitative factor? What kind of testing have model …
CovidGram – Racial disparities in disease rates- October 16, 2020
a Covid news digest for the two-week period of October 3 – October 16, 2020 FINAL EDITION FRONT PAGE More on airborne transmission and institutional reliability. The CDC has finally issued what we hope will be a permanent warning about coronavirus aerosol risk. Racial and ethnic disparities in Covid case and death rates. A deeper look into Milwaukee’s racial …
CovidGram: Making sense of the latest research
KHEPRW COVID CONVO presents COVIDGRAM, a weekly news digest How CovidGram helps you stay on top of the COVID pandemic CovidGram is a COVID information sanctuary that grew out of a conversation during Kheprw’s “Mumbo Jumbo” weekly community conversation series. It scans COVID news from worldwide sources and flags reports that appear to be misleading, false, or otherwise unreliable. …