Episode 35: Science Friday with Dr. Jose

Questions:

• Update on Numbers
• Update on Models
• AstraZeneca Trial on Hold
• Emerging Data on other fallout from pandemic: UN World Food Programme press release/projections, research letter in
• JAMA IM about younger patients hospitalized with COVID
• U of I: An Illustrative Case
• The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the viral study about it--nuance!
• Myth Busting: Did the CDC quietly update the COVID morality numbers to say only 6% died of covid?

Links:

• STAT, AstraZeneca Trial Hold
• STAT, AstraZeneca Trial Hold, further details
• JAMA IM Study on Younger Hospitalized Adults
• UN World Food Programme Press Release on hunger due to COVID
• NYTimes, U of I Outbreak
• WaPo, Sturgis Study Reporting (note this is not nuanced)
• Slate, Breakdown of Potential Issues with Sturgis Study
• The Actual Sturgis Study Manuscript