Ayesha S. Mahmud

TL;DR: The household‐based survey suggests that the number of excess deaths related to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico is more than 70 times the official estimate, and this number is likely to be an underestimate because of survivor bias.

TL;DR: The twenty-first century has witnessed a wave of severe infectious disease outbreaks, not least the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a devastating impact on lives and livelihoods around the globe.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an in-depth characterization of disease incidence and mortality, and their dependence on demographic and socioeconomic strata in Santiago, a highly segregated city and the capital of Chile.

TL;DR: Among residents of California and Washington state enrolled in Kaiser Permanente healthcare plans who were admitted to hospital with covid-19, the probabilities of ICU admission, of long hospital stay, and of mortality were identified to be high and incidence rates of new hospital admissions have stabilized or declined in conjunction with implementation of social distancing interventions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report results from four waves of contact surveys designed to quantify the impact of physical distancing policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and find that interpersonal contact has been dramatically reduced in the US, with an 82% (95%CI: 80%-83%) reduction in the average number of daily contacts observed during the first wave compared to pre-pandemic levels.