AIDS and COVID: A tale of two pandemics and the role of statisticians

Susan S. Ellenberg; Jeffrey S. Morris

doi:10.1002/sim.8936

AIDS and COVID: A tale of two pandemics and the role of statisticians

Susan S. Ellenberg, Jeffrey S. Morris

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The world has experienced three global pandemics over the last half-century: HIV/AIDS, H1N1, and COVID-19. HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 are still with us and have wrought extensive havoc worldwide. There are many differences between these two infections and their global impacts, but one thing they have in common is the mobilization of scientific resources to both understand the infection and develop ways to combat it. As was the case with HIV, statisticians have been in the forefront of scientists working to understand transmission dynamics and the natural history of infection, determine prognostic factors for severe disease, and develop optimal study designs to assess therapeutics and vaccines.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2499-2510
Number of pages	12
Journal	Statistics in Medicine
Volume	40
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.8936
State	Published - May 20 2021
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

AIDS
COVID-19
diagnostic testing
infectious disease modeling
pandemic

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Epidemiology
Statistics and Probability

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