Q&A: Innovation and Entrepreneurship during the COVID-19 pandemic
July 8, 2020
History has shown that crisis inspires innovation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, innovation has been critical to keeping many people’s lives and workplaces functioning safely. Dining out at restaurants has been replaced by meal and grocery delivery services, meetings are held via video conferencing, and health care visits are occurring on our screens. But entrepreneurs also have to face the challenges of our new reality, including a global economic crisis. Christy Wyskiel, Senior Advisor to the President of Johns Hopkins University for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Executive Director of Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures, joined Samuel Volkin to discuss impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on innovation
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Can people spread the coronavirus if they don’t have symptoms? 5 questions answered about asymptomatic COVID-19
July 8, 2020
Any time a virus can be spread by people without symptoms, you have to turn to preventative measures.
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Group testing for coronavirus – called pooled testing – could be the fastest and cheapest way to increase screening nationwide
July 8, 2020
The basic idea of pooled testing is that it allows public health officials to test small groups – called pools – of people using only one test. This means you can test more people faster, using fewer tests and for less money.
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Lessons from the 1918 pandemic: A U.S. city’s past may hold clues
July 8, 2020
As a historian of medicine at the University of Michigan, I am a student of the 1918 influenza pandemic. It remains the deadliest public health event in recorded history. There are lessons to be learned from what happened a century ago. True, there are differences between then and now. Then we were a nation at war, with an economy led by manufacturing and a male-dominated workforce. We had far less medical and scientific knowledge. And it was an entirely different virus. But striking similarities exist between how we reacted to the pandemic in 1918, and how we’re responding now.
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Global Coronavirus Cases Top 10 Million as U.S. Cases Surge and a Dozen States Pause Reopening
June 30, 2020
Coronavirus cases have now topped 10 million worldwide, with over a half-million deaths. Cases continue to surge across much of the United States, where confirmed cases have now topped 2.6 million, with over 126,000 reported deaths — that’s one-quarter of the world’s cases and deaths, though the U.S. has just over 4% of the global population.
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Posts published in “CoronaVirus”

People are getting sick from coronavirus spreading through the air – and that’s a big challenge for reopening

Coughing, sneezing, talking and even just breathing can produce airborne particles that can spread SARS-CoV-2. Stanislaw Pytel/Digital Vision via Getty Images

People are getting sick from coronavirus spreading through the air – and that’s a big challenge for reopening

By Sania Siddiqui on June 22, 2020

To test how well SARS-CoV-2 can live in the air, researchers use special equipment to create aerosolized virus and keep it airborne for long periods of time. Researchers can then take samples of the virus and see how long it stays alive in an aerosol. An early study from researchers at the National Institute of Health kept the virus airborne for four hours and found live virus the whole time. A subsequent pre-print study that I was part of found that the coronavirus can stay alive for up to 16 hours in the air.

How the coronavirus escapes an evolutionary trade-off that helps keep other pathogens in check