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Humans produce a lot of data, and it seems the current epidemic crisis has accelerated our production of and engagement with numbers, graphs, and maps. But we can learn a lot from all the statistics, especially if we know how to digest and interpret it all. Demography expert Neil Mehta shares his thoughts on how to follow and understand the coronavirus outbreak in a meaningful way.
As the 2019 Novel Coronavirus continues to spread, University of Michigan School of Public Health experts provide these answers to questions for the media and the general public about the virus itself, how it is transmitted, and how concerned we should be.
Biostatistics expert Peter Song and team have created a tool to assess the effectiveness of preventive measures in the fight against the COVID-19, still a new disease with many unknowns. The model lets us compare the impact of different levels of intervention so different locales can develop better strategies and policies to flatten the coronavirus curve.
The essential question surrounding coronavirus is, how do we stop it? Right now, there is still no known medication to prevent or treat it. Emily Martin explains what it takes to create a vaccine and how long it will take to make a coronavirus vaccine available to the public.
As the coronavirus continues to spread, University of Michigan School of Public Health expert, Joseph Eisenberg, discusses the virus transmission and virulence.
A delegation of Michigan Public Health faculty and staff visited Kenya and Ethiopia in January 2020 to strengthen and build relationships with partners and to explore potential avenues for public health collaboration and research in Sub-Saharan Africa.