Results provide insight for public health policymakers fighting COVID-19 Achieving herd immunity to COVID-19 is an impractical public health strategy, according to a new model developed by University of Georgia scientists. The study recently appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Controlling COVID-19 has presented public health policymakers with a […]
Long-distance animal migrations can trigger relapse of dormant infections, influencing when and where infection risk peaks, according to research by alumnus Dan Becker, PhD ’17, and Asst. Prof. Richard Hall. Read more here. Photo: A rusty blackbird typically migrates from northern Canada to the United States for winter. Photo provided […]
Positions for graduate students are available as part of a multi-year project funded through 2025 by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The goal of the project is to better understand drivers of spillover of Ebolavirus and other African filoviruses along ecological boundaries. You can read more about the project here. […]
Applications are invited for two Postdoctoral Research Associates in the Odum School of Ecology and Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, at the University of Georgia, associated with a project recently funded by NIH “Spillover of Ebola and other filoviruses at ecological boundaries.” Position 1 (Statistical Modeling of Spillover […]
Most infectious disease outbreaks involve transmission from animals to humans A multidisciplinary team of researchers with the Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases received a five-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, to investigate and model […]
Researchers in the Coronavirus Working Group modeled the effectiveness of generalized and targeted non-pharmaceutical interventions to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Generalized policies include wearing face masks, hand washing, enhanced sick leave policies, limiting large gatherings, and other behavioral changes not involving intensive social distancing or shelter-in-place orders. Targeted methods […]
The Coronavirus Working Group continues to publish timely information about the COVID-19 pandemic in Georgia and the United States. Using the interactive visualization tools that are available on the COVID-19 Portal, data show that the number of confirmed cases, hospitalizations, and deaths continue to increase in Georgia and most other […]
The coronavirus pandemic has been the dominant story in popular media for almost half a year. As the number of clinically confirmed cases continues to rise in much of the county, it will remain the lead story for many news outlets. However, the ecological circumstances that led to COVID-19’s prominence may […]
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.
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 […]
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