Browsing by Author "Buckee, Caroline"

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    • Data in Crisis — Rethinking Disaster Preparedness in the United States 

      Balsari, Satchit; Kiang, Mathew; Buckee, Caroline (Massachusetts Medical Society, 2021-10-14)
      To protect our most vulnerable communities from increasingly frequent climate-related extreme weather events, public health agencies and hospitals need to know — before, during, and after a disaster — who and where these ...

    • Estimating SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and epidemiological parameters with uncertainty from serological surveys 

      Larremore, Daniel B.; Fosdick, Bailey K.; Bubar, Kate M.; Zhang, Sam; Kissler, Stephen; Metcalf, C. Jessica E.; Buckee, Caroline; Grad, Yonatan (2020)
      Establishing how many people have already been infected by SARS-CoV-2 is an urgent priority for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. Patchy virological testing has hampered interpretation of confirmed case counts, and unknown ...

    • Every Body Counts: Measuring Mortality From the COVID-19 Pandemic 

      Kiang, Mathew; Irizarry, Rafael; Buckee, Caroline; Balsari, Satchit (American College of Physicians, 2020-09-11)
      As of mid-August 2020, more than 170 000 U.S. residents have died of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); however, the true number of deaths resulting from COVID-19, both directly and indirectly, is likely to be much higher. ...

    • Evolution of the Multi-Domain Structures of Virulence Genes in the Human Malaria Parasite, Plasmodium falciparum 

      Recker, Mario; Buckee, Caroline (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      The var gene family of Plasmodium falciparum encodes the immunodominant variant surface antigens PfEMP1. These highly polymorphic proteins are important virulence factors that mediate cytoadhesion to a variety of host ...

    • Modeling the Comparative Impact of Individual Quarantine vs. Active Monitoring of Contacts for the Mitigation of COVID-19 

      Peak, Corey; Kahn, Rebecca; Grad, Yonatan; Childs, Lauren; Li, Ruoran; Lipsitch, Marc; Buckee, Caroline (2020-03-08)
      Individual quarantine and active monitoring of contacts are core disease control strategies, particularly for emerging infectious diseases such as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). To estimate the comparative efficacy ...

    • Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria 

      Kishore, Nishant; Marqués, Domingo; Mahmud, Ayesha S; Kiang, Mathew Vinhhoa; Rodriguez, Irmary; Fuller, Arlan F.; Ebner, Peggy; Sorensen, Cecilia; Racy, Fabio De Castro Jorge; Lemery, Jay; Maas, Leslie; Leaning, Jennifer; Irizarry, Rafael A.; Balsari, Satchit Siddharth; Buckee, Caroline O'Flaherty (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2018)
      BACKGROUND Quantifying the effect of natural disasters on society is critical for recovery of public health services and infrastructure. The death toll can be difficult to assess in the aftermath of a major disaster. In ...

    • Reductions in commuting mobility predict geographic differences in SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in New York City 

      Kissler, Stephen; Kishore, Nishant; Prabhu, Malavika; Goffman, Dena; Beilin, Yaakov; Landau, Ruth; Gyamfi-Bannerman, Cynthia; Bateman, Brian; Katz, Daniel; Gal, Jonathan; Bianco, Angela; Stone, Joanne; Larremore, Daniel; Buckee, Caroline; Grad, Yonatan (2020)
      Importance: New York City is the epicenter of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the United States. Mortality and hospitalizations have differed substantially between different neighborhoods. Mitigation efforts in the coming months ...

    • Socioeconomic Status Determines COVID-19 Incidence and Related Mortality in Santiago, Chile 

      Mena, Gonzalo E.; Martinez Vargas, Pamela; Mahmud, Ayesha; Marquet, Pablo A.; Buckee, Caroline; Santillana, Mauricio (2021-01-15)
      The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted dense urban populations particularly hard. Here, we provide an in-depth characterization of disease incidence and mortality patterns, and their dependence ...

    • U.S. county-level characteristics to inform equitable COVID-19 response 

      Chin, Taylor; Kahn, Rebecca; Li, Ruoran; Chen, Jarvis; Krieger, Nancy; Buckee, Caroline; Balsari, Satchit; Kiang, Mathew (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2020-04-11)
      Background: The spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) across the United States confirms that not all Americans are equally at risk of infection, severe disease, or mortality. A range of intersecting biological, ...

    • Using predicted imports of 2019-nCoV cases to determine locations that may not be identifying all imported cases 

      Martinez de Salazar Munoz, Pablo; Niehus, Rene; Taylor, Aimee; Buckee, Caroline; Lipsitch, Marc (2020-02-05)
      Cases from the ongoing outbreak of atypical pneumonia caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) exported from mainland China can lead to self-sustained outbreaks in other populations. Internationally imported cases ...