Media
Lover Lab in the media
Amherst Media-Amherst Weekly Report “COVID Vaccines and Public Health”-December 11, 2020.
WGBH News “Local Public Health Experts Weigh In On Biden’s COVID-19 Plan”- November 9, 2020
Boston Globe “High school sports on ice: Can there even be a winter season?"- October 31, 2020
WGBH News “Number Of Massachusetts Cities, Towns With High COVID-19 Rates Nearly Doubles In A Week”- October 8, 2020
Daily Hampshire Gazette “UMass team lands $427K grant to pinpoint high-risk tick locations”- September 28, 2020
Mass-Live “UMass volunteers to help study coronavirus exposure on campus, statewide”- July 9, 2020
Politifact- Truth-O-Meter “Social media image about mask efficacy right in sentiment, but percentages are ‘bonkers’ “- July 1, 2020
Newsy- The Briefing “COVID-19 Update with Infectious Disease Expert Andrew Lover”- June 18, 2020
Metrowest Daily News, Framingham “Health directors need critical numbers to know if community spread of coronavirus is decreasing”
NBC 10 Boston “Boston Protesters Urged to Get Free COVID-19 Testing”- June 9, 2020
Boston Globe “Governor Baker to announce details of Massachusetts reopening today”- May 18, 2020
Boston Globe “Massachusetts researchers are on front lines of coronavirus antibody testing” (Sero-Mass study)- May 3, 2020
The Economist “The young seem to be less likely to catch or pass on COVID-19”- May 2, 2020
WWLP 22 News, Springfield- Mass Appeal “UMass Epidemiologist Answers COVID-19 Questions”- April 29, 2020
WGBH Radio- In It Together “Daily discussions about COVID-19 in Massachusetts”- April 13, 2020
Tampa Bay Herald “Florida’s count of coronavirus deaths is missing some cases”- April 11, 2020
Boston Herald “Coronavirus cases way underreported in Massachusetts, across nation: Experts”- March 27, 2020
NY Times “Twitter Blocks The Federalist for Promoting Coronavirus Parties”- March 26, 2020
Wired Magazine “Researchers Push for Mass Blood Tests as a COVID-19 Strategy”- March 26, 2020
FiveThirtyEight “Experts Say The Coronavirus Outlook Has Worsened, But The Trajectory Is Still Unclear”- March 26, 2020
Business Insider “More than a dozen researchers predicted how the US’s coronavirus outbreak will end. They estimated nearly 200,000 people could die by the end of the year."- March 26, 2020
WGBY Television- Connecting Point “Coronavirus Myth-busting: Separating Fact from Fiction”- March 25, 2020
Wired Magazine “Trump’s Itch to Reboot the Economy Would Be a Fatal Error”- March 24, 2020
FiveThirtyEight “Infectious Disease Experts Don’t Know How Bad The Coronavirus Is Going To Get, Either”- March 20, 2020
Newsy- The Briefing “Experts: COVID-19 Cases to peak in May without more action”- March 19, 2020
Gizmodo “Real Number of U.S. Coronavirus Cases Could Be as High as 150,000, New Estimates Suggest”- March 19, 2020
Bloomberg Quint “Coronavirus testing gap created public health chaos across US”- March 12, 2020
Mass Live “Coronavirus protection starts with basic hygiene”- March 6, 2020
UMass Press Releases, Publications, and Campus Events
UMass Press Release “UMass Amherst Looks Ahead to Spring, Having Established a Proven Infrastructure to Test for COVID-19 and Protect Public Health”- Dec. 10, 2020
Computational Social Science Initiative “COVID-19, College Campuses, and Contact Tracing”- November 19, 2020
Med-life Science News “UMass Amherst epidemiologist receives NIH grant to develop new tick surveillance method”- September 25, 2020
SciX “Scientists to develop new surveillance method for tick-borne disease transmission”- September 25, 2020
UMass Press Release “A New Twist on Public Health Tick Surveillance”- September 24, 2020
UMass Press Release “New UMass Amherst COVID-19 Dashboard Launched”- August 26, 2020
UWW/Alumni Relations/School of Public Health and Health Sciences “Special Forum: Moving Forward: COVID-19 Reopening Pathways”- August 12, 2020
UMass Press Release “UMass Amherst Study Underway to Estimate Coronavirus Exposure on Campus and Across State”- July 9, 2020
UMass Press Release “Federal Grants Support Research to Improve Pandemic Forecasting” - July 1, 2020
UMass Magazine “A Virus Changes Everything”- Spring 2020
UMass Life Science Cafe “Covid-19 Panel featuring University of Massachusetts faculty” - May 7, 2020
UMass Institute for Applied Life Sciences “COVID-19 Town Hall and Q&A-Recap, plus Sero-Mass study”- April 24, 2020
School of Public Health and Health Sciences “State’s COVID-19 Response Gets Vital Assistance from School of Public Health and Health Sciences at UMass Amherst”- April 1, 2020
School of Public Health and Health Sciences “Gerber Leads SPHHS Effort to Assist State”- March 27, 2020
UMass News Office “Portable AI Device Turns Coughing Sounds Into Health Data for Flu Forecasting”- March 19, 2020
Daily Collegian “Scholars dissect COVID-19 at Amherst College roundtable”- March 5, 2020