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🥼IDSI Faculty Advisory Board Dr. @DOgunseitan ft on @CosmosMagazine “Changing climate-changing diseases”.
“We focus on viruses and bacteria or #COVID19 and the #plague. But there are many #fungi that are potentially dangerous.”🩺

April 19, 2022

🥼IDSI Affiliate Faculty Dr.@AndrewNoymer ft on KCBS Radio: On-Demand “Philadelphia reinstates its mask mandate, the first major U.S. city to do so”. With BA.2 cases surging, today the city of Philadelphia reinstated indoor masking requirements.🩺

April 18, 2022

🥼IDSI Faculty Advisory Board Dr.@dm_parker “Why #Covid_19 Cases May Continue to Decline in the United States”. Despite the encouraging numbers, experts stress the #BA2 subvariant of Omicron and its increase within the United States.🩺

April 17, 2022

New UCI Summer Biostatistics Institute for Undergraduate Students.

April 14, 2022

ISI-BUDS 2022 Irvine Summer Institute in Biostatistics and Undergraduate Data Science (July 11 – August 18, 2022) ISI-BUDS is a six-week summer program introducing undergraduate students to the modern methodology and practice of biostatistics and […]

IDSI Affiliate Faculty Dr. Bernadette Boden-Albala ft on Health Magazine “Will BA.2 Cause Another COVID Wave in the U.S.?”. A subvariant of Omicron, called BA2, has been sweeping across Europe and Asia in recent weeks, questioning if it will surge in the US.

April 11, 2022

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🥼IDSI Faculty Advisory Board Dr. @CarterButts Research paper on “Geographical patterns of social cohesion drive disparities in early COVID infection hazard”. Disparate experiences & the effects of local cohesion on COVID-19 spread in San Francisco.📄

April 10, 2022

IDSI Affiliated Faculty Dr. AndrewNoymer ft on O.C.Register “Why California, some counties are scaling back COVID-19 data updates”. Mixed reaction from public health experts on California scaling back down on coronavirus reports.

April 8, 2022

IDSI Associate Director Dr. Shruti Gohil on AirTalk, KPCC, “COVID-19 AMA: What’s Next For Vaccines, The Latest On The BA.2 Variant, And More”. Lively and in-depth discussions of the latest medical research news on #COVID19 vaccines & the #BA2 variant.

April 7, 2022

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IDSI Affiliated Faculty Dr. Bernadette Boden-Albala featured in Verywell, “Can COVID-19 Tests Detect BA.2 Variant?”. Suggesting for people to test a few times to make sure results, whether positive or negative, are truly accurate.🥼

March 31, 2022

💼”Pandemic exodus from Los Angeles” ft UCI Distinguished Professor of Economics, Jan Brueckner. On one of the reasons people left major cities in 2021 when COVID-19 forced employees to work remotely. Including LA, San Francisco & New York.

March 30, 2022

💊Here’s What You Need To Know About the COVID-19 Antiviral Pills Currently, there are 2 drugs authorized for the treatment of COVID-19. Paxlovid & Molnupiravir are antiviral medications assisting the body, lessening symptoms & duration of the virus.

March 28, 2022

🩺#UCI and #COVID, by the numbers. A 2-year figure providing insights into the massive campus effort during the #pandemic. The number of days between the beginning of #RemoteLearning, March 30, 2020, & the return to in-person fall quarter during 2021.💉

March 25, 2022

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Congratulations to Dr. Vladimir Minin, IDSI Associate Director, for receiving state funding to study pandemic forecasting. The study will improve the accuracy and precision of COVID-19 forecasts & scenarios through analysis from multiple data sources.

March 22, 2022

💊IDSI Faculty Advisory Board Dr. Dele Ogunseitan ft Healthline “How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Could Cause a COVID-19 Spike in Europe”. Experts say war in Ukraine & ensuing flood of refugees could spur another surge, further straining hospital systems.

March 6, 2022

🩺IDSI Affiliated Faculty Dr. Jose Mayorga ft on Parents Magazine “Does My Child Have COVID-19 or the Stomach Flu?”. COVID-19 & stomach flu can both present as gastrointestinal symptoms like nausea, vomiting, & diarrhea. Here’s how to tell the difference.

February 20, 2022

💊IDSI Affiliated Faculty Dr. Andrew Noymer featured on KTLA “How likely is an L.A. COVID spike after the Super Bowl?”. As thousands in L.A prepared for the Super Bowl, at SoFi Stadium & at different gatherings. How likely is a COVID-19 spike to occur?

February 19, 2022

IDSI Affiliated Faculty Dr. Jose Mayorga MD feature in CBSLA, “LA County’s Indoor Mask Mandate Remains In Place Even As State Mandate Set To End”. “Do it make me nervous? It does, especially for those who have yet to get vaccinated, particularly, our children.”

February 19, 2022

🩺IDSI Faculty Advisory Board member Dr. Ogunseitan featured in Health Magazine, “How Did Deer Get COVID-19—And What Could It Mean For Humans?” New research shows COVID-19 & variants are showing up in deers, on the pandemic’s trajectory.

February 19, 2022

IDSI Affiliated Faculty Dr. Andrew Noymer featured on SpecNews1SoCal “Orange County’s COVID January death toll surpasses delta wave months”. “We’re on the downward cycle of it…partly because people took it seriously…Masking is still prudent.”

February 8, 2022

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🥼Providing Care to Underserved Communities in Orange County: An Interview with Dr. Jose Mayorga MD, Executive Director of UCI Health Family Health Centers. “You’re only as healthy as the poorest communities that surrounding you”🩺

February 3, 2022

José Mayorga Family Medicine Executive Director of UCI Health Family Health Centers Dr. José Mayorga is a board-certified UCI Health family medicine practitioner who serves as executive medical director of the UCI Health Family Health […]