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Lauren Meyers
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Citizenship:American
Education:BS, PhD
Alma Mater:Harvard University, Stanford University
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Doctoral Advisor:Marcus W. Feldman, PhD[1]
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Lauren Ancel Meyers is an American integrative biologist who holds the Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professorship in Zoology at the University of Texas at Austin.[2] She is also a member of the Santa Fe Institute External Faculty.[3]

Career

Meyers earned her Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in mathematics and philosophy at Harvard University (1996) and her PhD in biological sciences at Stanford University (2000). She then did post-doctoral work with the National Science Foundation for two years.

Meyers specializes in network epidemiology and works in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies on diseases such as COVID-19, pandemic influenza, Ebola, HIV, Swine flu,[4] and Zika. When the COVID-19 pandemic appeared she quickly realized it presented a unique danger and had long feared about such a pandemic. Her team formed the COVID-19 Modeling Consortium and coordinates with the White House Coronavirus Task Force.[5] [6] Meyers and other epidemiologists knew that the 2009 swine flu pandemic could have been much worse and that much better preparations for a future pandemic were needed. She is concerned that people will not take necessary precautions for the COVID-19 pandemic. Her team discovered that every day of delay in implementing social distancing measures added 2.4 days to the length of an outbreak.[7] On 30 June 2020, she predicted that without major and quick behavior change at least some locales will require a Stage 5 (red) shutdown.[8] Meyers emphasizes that COVID-19 does spread silently.[9] [10] Meyers further states that trait of COVID-19, coupled with its rapid transmission interval, only an average of 4 days, makes COVID-19 very dangerous. By comparison, this is very different from SARS, which has an 8-day transmission interval and is more visible.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lauren Ancel Meyers. University of Texas. 25 July 2020.
  2. Web site: Lauren Ancel Meyers. University of Texas at Austin. 25 July 2020.
  3. Web site: Lauren Ancel Meyers. University of Texas at Austin. 25 July 2020.
  4. Web site: How a Texas Expert on Swine Flu Had to Change Her Game. Texas Monthly. Heid. Jason. 12 June 2020. 25 July 2020.
  5. Web site: COVID-19 in Context: Epidemiologist and Community Member Dr. Lauren Ancel Meyers Predicts and Guides Coronavirus Decision Making. The Jewish Outlook. Cone. Tonyia. 27 May 2020. 25 July 2020.
  6. Web site: Coronavirus in Texas: UT’s top epidemiologist has been preparing for this fight for decades. The Statesman. Korte. Lara. 24 April 2020. 25 July 2020.
  7. Web site: For Each Day’s Delay in Social Distancing, a COVID-19 Outbreak Lasts Days Longer. University of Texas News. 1 June 2020. 25 July 2020.
  8. Web site: Without rapid behavior change, city heads for stage 5 shutdown. Austin Monitor. Thornton. Ryan. 30 June 2020. 25 July 2020.
  9. Web site: Coronavirus Spreads Quickly and Sometimes Before People Have Symptoms, Study Finds. University of Texas News. 16 March 2020. 25 July 2020.
  10. Web site: COVID-19 'can and does spread silently' says UT's Lauren Ancel Meyers as Austin sees daily cases spike again. Austonia. Freer. Emma. 10 June 2020. 25 July 2020.
  11. Web site: The secret life of coronavirus: Why we need such drastic social distancing measures. Economics Intelligence Unit. Meyers. Lauren. 20 March 2020. 25 July 2020.

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