Oregon’s Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OR OSHA) regulates farmworkers’ working and housing conditions, including conditions in approximately 330 employer-owned labor housing sites in the state. With the spread of COVID-19, OR OSHA issued temporary COVID-19 standards for agriculture that went into effect on June 1, 2020. Although the temporary standards included other COVID-19 precautions for labor housing, transportation, and field sanitation, they critically did not increase the required living…
Protecting the Public’s Health During Protests Against Systemic Racism
Protests are important—they are a key medium for illuminating injustices that have long been ignored. Today, protests are being used as critical platforms for advocating against the structures that allow police brutality to persist and to go unpunished. However, as infectious disease epidemiologists, we recognize that protests can multiply the opportunities for COVID-19 transmission. We also know that African Americans already experience significant health inequities, including more heart disease, maternal…
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Human Challenge Studies to Accelerate Coronavirus Vaccine Licensure
Human Challenge Studies to Accelerate Coronavirus Vaccine Licensure Nir Eyal, Marc Lipsitch, and Peter G. Smith https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/42639016
Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the post-pandemic period
Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the post-pandemic period Stephen M Kissler, Christine Tedijanto, Edward Goldstein, Yonatan H. Grad, Marc Lipsitch https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.04.20031112v1
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Social distancing strategies for curbing the COVID-19 epidemic Stephen Kissler, Christine Tedijanto, Marc Lipsitch, and Yonatan Grad https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/42638988
Modeling the Comparative Impact of Individual Quarantine vs. Active Monitoring of Contacts for the Mitigation of COVID-19
Modeling the Comparative Impact of Individual Quarantine vs. Active Monitoring of Contacts for the Mitigation of COVID-19 Corey M Peak, Rebecca Kahn, Yonatan H Grad, Lauren M Childs, Ruoran Li, Marc Lipsitch, Caroline O Buckee https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20031088v1
Aggregated mobility data could help fight COVID-19
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Defining the Epidemiology of Covid-19 — Studies Needed
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Estimating clinical severity of COVID-19 from the transmission dynamics in Wuhan, China
Estimating clinical severity of COVID-19 from the transmission dynamics in Wuhan, China Joseph T. Wu, Kathy Leung, Mary Bushman, Nishant Kishore, Rene Niehus, Pablo M. de Salazar, Benjamin J. Cowling, Marc Lipsitch, Gabriel M. Leung https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0822-7
Quantifying bias of COVID-19 prevalence and severity estimates in Wuhan, China that depend on reported cases in international travelers
Quantifying bias of COVID-19 prevalence and severity estimates in Wuhan, China that depend on reported cases in international travelers Rene Niehus, Pablo M De Salazar, Aimee Taylor, Marc Lipsitch https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.13.20022707v2