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 […]
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 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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
CEID is thrilled to welcome John King to as the Project & Communications Manager for our Coronavirus Working Group. John will assist our working group by helping streamline processes, coordinating communications and media requests, and helping with the strategic direction of the group. Having worked in the roles of sales, […]
How does human activity and urbanization affect wildlife movement and behavior? How can features of urban landscapes influence the transmission of disease among wildlife and humans? These are just a few of the questions Dr. Cecilia Sánchez seeks to answer in her research. […]
On January 24, 2020, the The Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases at the University of Georgia formed the Coronavirus Working Group, a group of about 20 scientists with data science expertise in data manipulation and interpretation, visualization, GIS, machine learning, computational statistics, and dynamical modeling. The Working Group’s COVID-19 Portal provides data-driven, information […]
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