COVID 19 App interview: Claire Steves Kings College London
Mar 26, 2020
An interview with Claire Steves, one of the scientific investigators of the COVID 19 symptom tracking app. She is treating patients in clinics on a day to day basis and has a unique view of how COVID19 is developing in the UK. She and a team of over 40 researchers will be analyzing symptom tracking data to understand the spread of the virus and its characteristics. You can download the app at https://covid.joinzoe.com. The US app will be launching later this week.
Claire is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. She is also a Consultant Geriatrician at Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust as well as the Deputy Director (Clinical) for TwinsUK. Claire is interested in the interactions between physical and mental health in ageing. Her current research focuses on the relationship between the gut, urinary and salivary microbiome and conditions of ageing, including cognitive ageing, frailty and multi-morbidity. Claire also leads on our new Wellcome Longitudinal Population Study grant which aims to expand our ability to contribute to health sciences, by linking with health records, social and environmental scientists. Claire graduated first class from Cambridge University in 1997. She joined the department in 2009 with a Wellcome Clinical Research Fellowship and gained a PhD by 2014.
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Watch as Hospital Ship USNS Mercy Arrives in Los Angeles, Calif.
Mar 27, 2020
LOS ANGELES (March 27, 2020)-- Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) arrives in Los Angeles, March 27. Mercy deployed in support of the nation’s COVID-19 response efforts and will serve as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients currently admitted to shore-based hospitals. This allows shore base hospitals to focus their efforts on COVID-19 cases. One of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) missions is Defense Support of Civil Authorities. DoD is supporting the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the lead federal agency, as well as state, local and public health authorities in helping protect the health and safety of the American people. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Jacob Yost)
Call for code starter kit | Build a COVID-19 communication chatbot
Mar 27, 2020
To get started, visit http://ibm.biz/cfc-commskit
As COVID-19 affects communities around the world, communications systems have been stretched to capacity with people trying to find basic information around resources, testing, symptoms, and treatment. When communication methods lag, people who need real help can't get access to it. In these cases, chatbots can be an invaluable tool that provides help responding to potentially hundreds of thousands of messages each day.
To address immediate needs around crisis communication, our team built a chatbot that users can access on a website. The solution connects to Slack, and a voice-enabled chatbot that is connected to Node-RED. The chatbot can even retrieve COVID news through Watson Discovery and query trusted data sources for COVID infection statistics. This starter kit gets developers started using Watson Assistant and shows them how basic workflows would work between the user and backend technology.
Those who take this starter kit forward will have a strong foundation to incorporate publicly available data, subject matter expertise and further API integrations to create a more complete and robust solution.
Your questions about COVID-19 answered
Mar 27, 2020
Should I get a test for COVID-19? Am I at risk? There are still a lot of lingering questions about the virus that causes COVID-19. Dr. Peter McGough, family physician and head of the UW Neighborhood Clinics, provides clarity. The most important thing, he said, in the fight against the virus is to stay home.
"What we do now in terms of social distancing, quarantining and other measures is one of the most important things we can do now," he said. "As incredibly boring as staying home can become especially if you’ve got small kids or live alone, it’s very boring, but it’s absolutely lifesaving for everyone else and yourself."
What is a ventilator and why is there a shortage?
Mar 27, 2020
Ventilators are machines that deliver breaths of oxygenated air to patients who are unable to breathe sufficiently on their own, while also removing carbon dioxide from their lungs. There are an estimated 160,000 ventilators in the US. That's usually enough to serve everyone that needs one, but in the case of the coronavirus pandemic, it's a severe shortage. Companies including General Motors, Ford and Tesla are offering their help, but will that help come in time?
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