With Philadelphia’s delay on renter evictions set to expire soon, an editorial on how eviction crisis could exacerbate COVID-19 cited an epidemiological simulation created by Michael Levy, PhD, which showed that every 70 evicted households would correspond with at least one extra COVID-19 death.
To understand health and disease today, we need new thinking and novel science —the kind we create when multiple disciplines work together from the ground up. That is why this department has put forward a bold vision in population-health science: a single academic home for biostatistics, epidemiology and informatics.
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