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I am happy to report that our paper describing the measurement of casual contacts within an American high school is finally out in the early edition of PNAS. Stanford’s great social science reporter, Adam Gorlick, has written a very nice overview of our paper for the Stanford Report (also here in the LA Times and [...]

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Data from WHO Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR), Influenza A(H1N1) - update 34 — 20 May 2009: 

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Data from WHO Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR), Influenza A(H1N1) – update 33 — 19 May 2009: 

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There is a nice video piece at the New York Times website done by science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr.  In it, he makes a number of important points that I have been trying to emphasize in my latest posts on the topic. McNeil is to be congratulated.  This is the kind of reporting we need [...]

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As the potential pandemic fades into the obscurity of a couple weeks’ worth of the 24-hour news cycle, cases continue to mount.  New York City reported its first swine-flu death, an assistant principal in a NYC public school. As with most of the other deaths so far, this particular victim had medical complications that contributed [...]

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A lot has happened in the last week.  I was frantically preparing for a big talk that I had to give at the end of the week when the news about swine flu started heating up.  As of the most recent posting from the Pan-American Health Organization, there are 1118 confirmed cases and 27 deaths [...]

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