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[Ian T. Foster]

Subject: Carlo Graziani - ANL/MCS: PHS Seminar Presentation at the University of Chicago, Public Health Sciences Department
Carlo Graziani, PhD., will be presenting a presentation at the University of Chicago, Public Health Sciences Department, via zoom, on Wednesday, October 6, 2021. The zoom link and information is listed below.
PHS Seminar Presentation
Speaker: Carlo Graziani, PhD.
Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago
Bio: Carlo Graziani is a computational scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. He received a PhD in physics from the University of Chicago in 1993. He works on problems in probabilistic machine learning,
Bayesian statistics, and uncertainty quantification in computational science applications.
Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Zoom: Link Listed Below
Host: Habibul Ahsan, PHS
Title: The Delta Variant Had Negligible Impact on COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness in the USA
Abstract: The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) was initially identified in India in December 2020. Due to its high transmissibility, its prevalence in the USA grew from a near-zero baseline in early May 2021 to nearly 100% by late August 2021. The question of whether Delta is or  is not a vaccine "escape" variant is of urgent importance to public  health authorities, and has been debated, somewhat inconclusively, in  the scientific literature. We gathered openly available data sources on RT-PCR COVID-19 tests split by the COVID-19 vaccination status of individuals tested during this period from the public health authorities of seven U.S. states, five U.S. counties, and the District of Columbia. This data enabled us to generate geographically-resolved time-series of vaccine effectiveness (VE) against test-diagnosed infection, concurrently with the growth of Delta variant prevalence in those locations. Our analyses reveal that in each locality the VE for  the combined set of all three US vaccines remained relatively stable  and quite well-performing, despite the dramatic concurrent rise of  Delta variant prevalence. We conclude that the Delta variant is not a vaccine escape variant to any significant degree. We discuss further  implications of this type of data for epidemic surveillance, including  opportunities for simple data reforms and expansion of COVID-19 test  data collection, curation, and distribution in other public health  authorities in the USA and Internationally. Such reforms could result in the creation of a real-time COVID-19 epidemic observatory with surveillance capabilities that exceed anything available at present.
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Topic: PHS Seminar Speaker: Dr. Carlo Graziani, PhD.
Time: Oct 6, 2021, 04:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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