According to Chhatwal, this combination of lower vaccination and relaxed attitudes created ideal conditions for the Delta variant to spread in communities. "To get out of the wave sooner—or reduce the impact of the wave—we need higher vaccination rates and more social distancing, including indoor mask mandates in almost all states," he said.
In collaboration with Seagen, we developed Cervical Cancer Geo-Analyzer, an open access, web-based, interactive tool to visualize geographical areas in the US where cervical cancer education or healthcare resource needs are high. The tool was launched at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2022 Annual Meeting.
“Look at Google Analytics, the prediction models, and waste water all pointing to the same trends,” Chhatwal said. “That tells us something about what’s happening in the state, which is trends should be going downwards from this point onwards.”
Dr. Jagpreet Chhatwal, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and the associate director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Institute for Technology Assessment, which also projects COVID-19 metrics, cautioned that trying to predict what may happen with the virus in the weeks ahead is “highly uncertain.”
What is clear is that more variants will emerge if people remain susceptible to catching COVID-19 in the first place, said Jagpreet Chhatwal, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
In this joint interview feature, following their workshop delivered at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research’s 2020 Asia Pacific meeting (Virtual ISPOR Asia Pacific 2020; 14–16 September), Turgay Ayer (Georgia Tech, GA, USA), Jag Chhatwal (Massachusetts General Hospital, MA, USA) and Selin Merdan (Value Analytics Lab, GA, USA) discuss the practicalities of applying machine learning (ML) in the real-world evidence and health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) fields.
Jagpreet Chhatwal, a lead investigator of the COVID-19 simulator, which models the potential future of coronavirus infection and death based on behavior changes
Jag Chhatwal, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, joined KUSI to discuss the new study’s findings.
"We were surprised because before conducting the study I would think that mass gatherings in large stadiums would have contributed significantly to increase in daily number of cases. But our findings show that this indeed was not the case." said Turgay Ayer from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Jagpreet Chhatwal, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, helped design a tool to detect COVID-19 outbreaks in counties that hosted professional football games. "We can essentially break a transmission chain — and prevent a super spreader event — by adhering to masking and 6-feet social distancing at Raymond James Stadium," he said.
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