Tracking COVID-19 Infections Using Survey Data on Rapid At-Home Tests.

Author(s): Santillana M, Uslu AA, Urmi T, Quintana-Mathe A, Druckman JN, Ognyanova K, Baum M, Perlis RH, Lazer DJournal: JAMA Netw OpenPMID: 39348120 September 2024
Importance  Identifying and tracking new infections during an emerging pandemic is crucial to design and deploy interventions to protect populations and…

Conspiratorial thinking in a 50-state survey of American adults

Author(s): Perlis RH, Uslu A, Barroilhet SA, Vohringer PA, Santillana M, Baum MA, Druckman JN, Ognyanova K, Lazer DJournal: medRxiv September 2024
While the NIMH Research Domain Criteria framework stresses understanding how neuropsychiatric phenotypes vary across populations, little is known outside of…

Prevalence and correlates of irritability among U.S. adults.

Author(s): Perlis RH, Uslu A, Schulman J, Himelfarb A, Gunning FM, Solomonov N, Santillana M, Baum MA, Druckman JN, Ognyanova K, Lazer DJournal: NeuropsychopharmacologyPMID: 39181998 August 2024
This study aimed to characterize the prevalence of irritability among U.S. adults, and the extent to which it co-occurs with…

Evaluation of FluSight influenza forecasting in the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons with a new target laboratory-confirmed influenza hospitalizations.

Author(s): Mathis SM, Webber AE, León TM, Murray EL, Sun M, White LA, Brooks LC, Green A, Hu AJ, Rosenfeld R, Shemetov D, Tibshirani RJ, McDonald DJ, Kandula S, Pei S, Yaari R, Yamana TK, Shaman J, Agarwal P, Balusu S, Gururajan G, Kamarthi H, Prakash BA, Raman R, Zhao Z, Rodríguez A, Meiyappan A, Omar S, Baccam P, Gurung HL, Suchoski BT, Stage SA, Ajelli M, Kummer AG, Litvinova M, Ventura PC, Wadsworth S, Niemi J, Carcelen E, Hill AL, Loo SL, McKee CD, Sato K, Smith C, Truelove S, Jung SM, Lemaitre JC, Lessler J, McAndrew T, Ye W, Bosse N, Hlavacek WS, Lin YT, Mallela A, Gibson GC, Chen Y, Lamm SM, Lee J, Posner RG, Perofsky AC, Viboud C, Clemente L, Lu F, Meyer AG, Santillana M, Chinazzi M, Davis JT, Mu K, Pastore Y Piontti A, Vespignani A, Xiong X, Ben-Nun M, Riley P, Turtle J, Hulme-Lowe C, Jessa S, Nagraj VP, Turner SD, Williams D, Basu A, Drake JM, Fox SJ, Suez E, Cojocaru MG, Thommes EW, Cramer EY, Gerding A, Stark A, Ray EL, Reich NG, Shandross L, Wattanachit N, Wang Y, Zorn MW, Aawar MA, Srivastava A, Meyers LA, Adiga A, Hurt B, Kaur G, Lewis BL, Marathe M, Venkatramanan S, Butler P, Farabow A, Ramakrishnan N, Muralidhar N, Reed C, Biggerstaff M, Borchering RKJournal: Nat CommunPMID: 39060259 July 2024
Accurate forecasts can enable more effective public health responses during seasonal influenza epidemics. For the 2021-22 and 2022-23 influenza seasons,…