Alex Perkins
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Notre Dame. Interested in mathematical modeling of infectious disease dynamics and control. Views are my own.
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Impacts of K-12 school reopening on the COVID-19 epidemic in Indiana, USA
In the United States, schools closed in March 2020 due to COVID-19 and have begun reopening as of August 2020, despite continuing transmission of SARS-CoV-2. To determine the impact of school reopening with varying levels of operating capacity and...
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@guido_camargo was the second #PerkinsLabND postdoc and has been a wizard of all sorts of agent-based modeling. 🧙♂️👨💻
just today he presented his latest work to @MIDAS_Network on modeling school reopening in Covid times. read more @medrxivpreprint medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Temperature modulates dengue virus epidemic growth rates through its effects on reproduction numbers and generation intervals
Author summary Recurrent, rapidly intensifying epidemics of dengue–the world’s most prevalent mosquito-borne viral disease–pose a challenge to healthcare systems throughout the tropical and subtropical world. An acute disease that tends to respond...
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@amirSSiraj was the first #PerkinsLabND postdoc and played a big role in lots of projects in the lab, eg this nice paper @PLOSNTDs on temperature effects on dengue epidemic growth rates journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…
look out for great work from him in his new role @PATHtweets
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Stratifying malaria receptivity in Bangladesh using archived rapid diagnostic tests
Surveillance of low-density infections and of exposure to vectors is crucial to understand where malaria elimination might be feasible, and where the risk of outbreaks is high. Archived rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), used by national malaria control...
Transmission dynamics reveal the impracticality of COVID-19 herd immunity strategies
Confronted with escalating COVID-19 outbreaks, countries at the leading edge of the pandemic have had to resort to imposing drastic social distancing measures which have serious societal and economic repercussions. Establishing herd immunity in a...
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Are you a biologist who works on ANY aspect of disease?
@NDBios is hiring profs!
Epidemiology? 🧑💻📈✅
Vector biology? 🦟🦠✅
Disease ecology? 🐸🦦✅
Microbiology? 🔬🧫✅
Cancer biology? 🧑🔬🎗✅
Pathophysiology? ♥️🔄✅
Disease ‘omics? 🧬📊✅
Other? 🤔🤷✅
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Immune life history, vaccination, and the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 over the next 5 years
The future trajectory of the Covid-19 pandemic hinges on the dynamics of adaptive immunity against SARS-CoV2; however, salient features of the immune response elicited by natural infection or vaccination are still uncertain. We use simple...
The NIH Launches a Global Hunt for Animal-to-Human Diseases
It’s a reversal for an administration that’s been loath to prepare for pandemics or cooperate with China, where Covid-19 jumped from wildlife to people.
MIDAS Webinar: The impact of school reopening on COVID-19 transmission: modeling studies in Indiana, the San Francisco Bay Area, and King County, WA.
Join us for our next webinar, featuring research by MIDAS members on COVID-19 and school reopening.
woprVision (beta)
woprVision is an interactive web map that allows you to query population estimates for specific locations and demographic groups from the WorldPop Open Population Repository.
National population mapping from sparse survey data: A hierarchical Bayesian modeling framework to account for uncertainty
High-resolution population estimates are essential for government planning, development projects, and public health campaigns, but countries where this information is most needed are often where recent national census data are least available. We...
Racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality are driven by unequal infection risks.
Background. As of August 5, 2020, there were more than 4.8M confirmed and probable cases and 159K deaths attributable to SARS-CoV-2 in the United States, with these numbers undoubtedly reflecting a significant underestimate of the true toll....
Seasonal coronavirus protective immunity is short-lasting
The durability of immunity to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is unknown. Lessons from seasonal coronavirus infections in humans show that reinfections can occur within 12 months of initial infection, coupled with...
Trump officials interfered with CDC reports on Covid-19
The politically appointed HHS spokesman and his team demanded and received the right to review CDC’s scientific reports to health professionals.
2020 has been a year without a flu season in the southern hemisphere
Efforts to stop covid-19 have had at least one welcome side-effect
Online tool created to track development of coronavirus vaccines // Notre Dame Research // University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame Research supports its researchers in advancing human understanding through research, scholarship, education, and creative endeavor in order to be a repository for knowledge and a powerful means for doing good in the world.
Realistic modelling of information spread using peer-to-peer diffusion patterns
Zhou, Pei et al. develop a more realistic information cascade model that reproduces key structures of real-world diffusion trees in distinct social platforms by combining a peer-to-peer diffusion pattern with a correction for observational bias.