{"id":5112,"date":"2024-01-27T04:45:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T04:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2024-01-27T05:02:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T05:02:15","slug":"january-25-2024-appreciation-of-cytognomixs-covid-19-epidemiology-studies-by-the-government-of-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/?p=5112","title":{"rendered":"January 25, 2024. Appreciation of Cytognomix&#8217;s COVID-19 research studies by the government of Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Peter Rogan, President of Cytognomix,\u00a0 accepted a<\/strong> <strong>Certificate of Appreciation from Hon. Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health of the Province of Ontario for our work on community COVID-19 outbreaks and their risk factors<\/strong>. This work was carried out in response to the Ministry&#8217;s Challenge Questions initiative to researchers, clinical professionals, hospitals and companies addressing how to approach this disease.\u00a0 Our work contributed to answering the challenge questions: <em>Can <\/em><em>we <\/em><em>better predict the trajectory <\/em><em>of <\/em><em>COVID-19 <\/em><em>across <\/em><em>multiple pandemic <\/em><em>waves? What are <\/em><em>the drivers of future pandemic <\/em><em>waves?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>In the letter that accompanied the certificate, the Minister wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks to your research, we are able to understand the importance of early identification of probable COVID-19 hotspots and the available mitigation strategies to limit rapid spread of COVID-19. Having contributions such as yours allows us to get the right information to the right people at the right time to support the COVID-19 pandemic response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our geostatistical epidemiology analyses of incidence and locations of infected individuals during Waves 1-3 provided the Ministry with key insights to support Ontarians during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">Our published findings are described in:<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">Mucaki EJ, Shirley BC and Rogan PK. Likely community transmission of COVID-19 infections between neighboring, persistent hotspots in Ontario, Canada.\u00a0<i>F1000Research<\/i>\u00a02022,\u00a010<wbr \/>:1312 (<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12688\/f1000research.75891.2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12688\/f1000research.75891.2&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1706392042611000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1yrufho8079x-HzhHRpExv\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12688\/<wbr \/>f1000research.75891.2<\/a>).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;\">We are grateful that the Ministry will be able to make use of our research findings and software for management of future disease outbreaks.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/?attachment_id=5114#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5114\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5114 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pages-from-Ministry-of-Health-Certificate-and-Letter-2-pages-turned-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Certificate of Appreciation - Ministry of Health Ontario\" width=\"867\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pages-from-Ministry-of-Health-Certificate-and-Letter-2-pages-turned-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pages-from-Ministry-of-Health-Certificate-and-Letter-2-pages-turned-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pages-from-Ministry-of-Health-Certificate-and-Letter-2-pages-turned-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pages-from-Ministry-of-Health-Certificate-and-Letter-2-pages-turned-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pages-from-Ministry-of-Health-Certificate-and-Letter-2-pages-turned-1536x1086.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pages-from-Ministry-of-Health-Certificate-and-Letter-2-pages-turned-2048x1448.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Rogan, President of Cytognomix,\u00a0 accepted a Certificate of Appreciation from Hon. Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health of the Province of Ontario for our work on community COVID-19 outbreaks and their risk factors. This work was carried out in response to the Ministry&#8217;s Challenge Questions initiative to researchers, clinical professionals, hospitals and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[212,213,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5118,"href":"https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cytognomix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}