Vladimir N. Minin
Statistics Prof @UCIrvine; interested in statistics, stochastic modeling, infectious diseases, immunology, evolutionary biology, and stem cells. he/him 🇺🇦🇺🇸
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Welcome - California Open Data
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Vladimir N. Minin
UCI COVID Trends website got lots of updates: stat.uci.edu/covid19/index.…
Our schedule:
1. County trends are updated daily using data.ca.gov
2. OC City trends are updated weekly using data shared with us by @ochealth (🙏🏼)
3. OC maps are updated monthly with OCHCA data
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COVID-19 Trends by UCI Statistics
Vladimir N. Minin
Looked closely at our new Coastal OC City trends (stat.uci.edu/covid19/coasta…) and got curious why positivity shot up in Seal Beach in May/June. Turns out there was a big nursing home outbreak I either missed or forgot about: sunnews.org/covid-outbreak… pic.twitter.com/yK0tr266Ks
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COVID outbreak at Seal Beach nursing home grows
The novel coronavirus outbreak at the only skilled nursing facility in Seal Beach continues to grow. Seal Beach Health and Rehabilitation has recorded 17 deaths of people with COVID-19 since the outbreak began in late May. SBHR has had 126 patients...
Vladimir N. Minin
Looked closely at our new Coastal OC City trends (stat.uci.edu/covid19/coasta…) and got curious why positivity shot up in Seal Beach in May/June. Turns out there was a big nursing home outbreak I either missed or forgot about: sunnews.org/covid-outbreak… pic.twitter.com/yK0tr266Ks
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Estimating effective population size changes from preferentially sampled genetic sequences
Author summary Estimating changes in the number of individuals in a given population is a challenging problem in some settings. For example, estimating population size trajectories of the number of people infected by a pathogen (e.g., Influenza...
Estimated Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Among Adults in Orange County, California
Background: Clinic-based estimates of SARS-CoV-2 may considerably underestimate the total number of infections. Access to testing in the US has been heterogeneous and symptoms vary widely in infected persons. Public health surveillance efforts and...
Papers with Code partners with arXiv
We are excited to announce our partnership with arXiv to support links to code on arXiv.
Events | Center for Virus Research
UCI Infectious Disease Science Initiative and Center for Virus Research present COVID-19 Dynamics: State of the Science This virtual symposium will include presentations by leading experts on the latest knowledge of COVID-19 dynamics, including...
Coronavirus takes wrenching toll on Orange County Latinos who have no choice but to work
The heavily Latino cities of Santa Ana and Anaheim have coronavirus positive test rates significantly higher than the overall rate in Orange County.
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Vladimir N. Minin
Good to see @dm_parker's maps in the @latimes article below. Too bad it came out just a couple of days before we released our OC City Trends: stat.uci.edu/covid19/oc-cit…
latimes.com/california/sto…
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COVID-19 Trends by UCI Statistics
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Vladimir N. Minin
We (Isaac Goldstein and @damonbayer, really) added OC City Trends view to our OC COVID dataviz website: stat.uci.edu/covid19/oc-cit…
We started with 5 most populous cities. Likely will add more sets of 5 later
We hope this will help communities assess their local risks better pic.twitter.com/NLzSjzpXWx
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Vladimir N. Minin
Good to see @dm_parker's maps in the @latimes article below. Too bad it came out just a couple of days before we released our OC City Trends: stat.uci.edu/covid19/oc-cit…
latimes.com/california/sto…
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Vladimir N. Minin
Orange County City COVID Trends are updated: stat.uci.edu/covid19/oc-cit…
These plots are updated every Monday using data kindly provided by @ochealth.
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UCI is No. 1 in Sierra magazine’s 2020 ‘Cool Schools’ ranking of sustainability leaders
Campus has been in top 10 for unmatched 11 straight years, with 4 first-place finishes
To cheer you up in difficult times 12: Asaf Ferber and David Conlon found new lower bounds for diagonal Ramsey numbers
Lower bounds for multicolor Ramsey numbers The Ramsey number r(t; ℓ) is the smallest natural number n such that every ℓ-coloring of the edges of the complete graph $latex K_n$ contains a monochroma…
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Orange County, CA COVID Situation Report
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Vladimir N. Minin
OC COVID Situation Report is updated: stat.uci.edu/oc_covid_model…
We will be updating it every Monday.
1. R_0 is bouncing around 0.5-0.6, so no change in dynamics detected, which is good news.
2. Prevalence is declining, but still projected to be between 2,000 and 36,000 on Oct. 8
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Vladimir N. Minin
Weekly OC COVID situation report is online now: stat.uci.edu/oc_covid_model…
- No change in dynamics is detected, which is good
- Re is at the same level, < 1; let’s keep it this way
- We analyze Aug 12 - Sep 16 period, because reporting delays make more recent data unreliable
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3 things to know about COVID-19 testing for students and school employees
Did you know there are more than 50 COVID-19 testing sites up and running in Orange County, and that educators can get tested for free, even if they’re asymptomatic? As a number of schools across O…
UCI statisticians release new online Orange County COVID-19 information resource
Website tracks the spread of coronavirus and forecasts future trends
Mobility trends provide a leading indicator of changes in SARS-CoV-2 transmission
Determining the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on transmission of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is paramount for the design and deployment of effective public health policies. Incorporating Apple...
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Vladimir N. Minin
Cool regional model # 3: “Mobility trends provide a leading indicator of changes in SARS-CoV-2 transmission” medrxiv.org/content/10.110… @guestrin @NP_Jewell
- hospitalization and mortality data
- Apple Maps mobility data
- applied to surveillance data from 8 states
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