Thank you Harvard University Alumni for your support and inspiration. Can’t wait to roll up my sleeves and support Harvard in paving a bold and bright future for all of higher ed! news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

Honored to nominated for the Harvard Board of Overseers and endorsed by the Coalition for a Diverse Harvard and 10 alumni organizations! Please spread the word and encourage Harvard alumni to vote starting this Friday. Ballot emails will come from [email protected]

Honored to be running for Harvard University Board of Overseers and deeply grateful to The Coalition for a Diverse Harvard Coalition for a Diverse Harvard for its endorsement! Alumni, please vote starting April 1.

Alums, this Sun 5p ET, meet the Overseer candidates who will help Harvard University be more diverse, inclusive & just: corp DEI ldr KIM RIVERA
health equity ldr MONICA BHAREL
entrepreneur SANGU DELLE
fed judge W. MIMI WRIGHT
social entrepreneur TODD PARK
pandemic scientist LAUREN MEYERS🧵

If schools were accelerating SARS-CoV-2 transmission, would we be able to tell?

In our new preprint, we show that comparing infection rates in schools to infection rates in the surrounding community isn’t enough to diagnose transmission levels. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

'Why COVID-19 Models Don’t Predict the Future”

feat. Dan Larremore Meyers Lab at UT Austin

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Rapid testing can be an effective way to control the pandemic, but it can be costly. In our new paper, we show that rapidly ramping up testing throughout the US should actually be cost saving while preventing thousands of deaths. thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

Results of our study in K-12 schools, in CNN Jonathan Zenilman sredd01 Michael Lachmann Meyers Lab at UT Austin cnn.com/2021/01/29/hea…

🗣️Out now! Our new preprint analyzes multiple levers for optimizing the #COVIDー19 #vaccine rollout, and finds that accelerating the rollout trumps risk-based prioritization and overcoming hesitancy in reducing mortality: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Thanks to Georges Benjamin Jenn Dowd Jag Chhatwal Peter Drobac Lauren Meyers and Jeff Shaman of ColumbiaPublicHealth for speaking to me newsweek.com/america-covid-…

For more, explore the news and interactive dashboards at UT Austin's #COVID19 Modeling Consortium website:

covid-19.tacc.utexas.edu

...superb and extremely useful work by a team including SFI Professors Meyers Lab at UT Austin & Michael Lachmann

Worried about sending your kids to school during the pandemic? Check out this free, online tool from UT Austin to estimate how many infected people are likely to show up at a school on a given day anywhere in the U.S. news.utexas.edu/2020/11/16/new…

New paper out from the lab! Spencer J. Fox and others found increased burden in high risk+low pay occupations. Plus surprisingly good but sad 😞 correspondence with our March predictions and the disproportionate hospital burden that occurred following 6mon

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New COVID-19 risk maps from the Meyers Lab at UT Austin to help schools, teachers, parents and communities navigate the challenge of reopening schools …

“We developed this framework to ensure that COVID-19 never overwhelms local health care capacity while minimizing the economic and societal costs of strict social-distancing measures”-Lauren Meyers

news.utexas.edu/2020/07/29/new…

For weeks now Meyers Lab at UT Austin has been helping Austin interpret the noisy #covid19 data, and I'm so excited we've finally taken the time to write-up our methods and put the projections into a dashboard that we will update daily! 1/n covid-19.tacc.utexas.edu/austin-project…

We stand with #ShutDownSTEM #ShutDownAcademia

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Just updated the Meyers Lab at UT Austin #covid19 projections. We're now using an ensemble model between our previous mobility-driven curve fitting approach and a new mobility-driven seir model: covid-19.tacc.utexas.edu/projections/

Hoping for a COVID-19 antiviral that limits virus spread naturemicrobiologycommunity.nature.com/users/30830-la… #behindthepaper