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Drake: America Needs a National Center for Infectious Disease Intelligence
In an opinion piece published in The Hill, CEID Director John Drake made the case that the time is now to establish a national center for infectious disease intelligence to monitor trends and provide real-time interpretation of outbreak data through modeling, biostatistics, and data science. Read the article, here.
A comparison of diversity estimators applied to a database of host–parasite associations
Understanding biodiversity patterns over space and time requires using data collected across large scales. One way to collect these data is to compile databases of multiple independent studies. However, compiled databases often magnify problems with sampling bias, where some taxa, geographic regions, and ecological questions have been studied far more […]
Untapped potential: The utility of drylands for testing eco-evolutionary relationships between hosts and parasites
Corresponding Author: Elizabeth Warburton, ewarburton@uga.edu Although drylands comprise over 41% of Earth’s surface, their parasite fauna remains understudied. This is a critical oversight as desert parasite communities are exemplars within the extremes of parasite ecology and thus readily lend themselves to testing hypotheses of virulence evolution, host specialization, and […]
Coronavirus Tracker Updated to Visualize COVID-19 Cases and Deaths at the County Level
The CEID Coronavirus Working Group has been providing a visualization tool that shows COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths, as well as tests, for US states and countries. This tool has been updated and now also reports cases and deaths at the county level for each US state. The tool allows […]
Coronavirus Tracker Shows Epidemic Holding Steady
The CEID Coronavirus Tracker available in the COVID-19 Portal is an interactive visualization tool that displays up to date data about the number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States and globally. UGA researchers and numerous external stakeholders use the tracker to understand how the SARS-CoV-2 virus […]
CEID Director John Drake Notes the Importance of Individual Precautions as States Lift Restrictions
CEID Director John Drake is quoted in a story by Jacob Pramuk with CNBC, discussing key precautions individuals can take, such as social distancing, wearing face coverings, and disinfecting services, and how these precautions can impact COVID-19 transmission as states lift restrictions. Read the article here: Georgia tries to balance pressure […]
Ask Me Anything with Dr. John Drake
CEID Director John Drake discusses models built by the Coronavirus Working Group, and answers audience questions about the trajectory of the virus, the importance of modeling, and work being done at UGA and around the world. […]
How is CEID Responding to COVID-19?
Our work is helping our world understand COVID-19 transmission, predict future outbreaks, and identify the interventions that will be most effective in guiding our way to a safer future. […]