Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)


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)
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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.
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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."
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6 steps every country should take to fight Coronavirus | Tedros Adhanom (WHO)

Mar 27, 2020

General-Director of World Health Organisation, Dr. Tedros Adhanom, details 6 crucial steps that every country should take to fight Coronavirus.
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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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Hungry monkeys brawl over food as coronavirus hits tourism in Thailand

Mar 13, 2020

A large crowd of monkeys has been filmed brawling over a pot of yoghurt in a street in Thailand. A fall in tourist numbers amid the Covid-19 outbreak has resulted in far fewer people offering them food. The video was filmed in Lopburi, a city north-east of Bangkok that is famed for its monkey population
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ER doctor explains how they're handling COVID-19

Mar 27, 2020

Epidemic expert Dr. Seema Yasmin interviews emergency room physician Dr. Cedric Dark about COVID-19's effect on the city of Houston, Texas. Dr. Dark talks about how the city is handling the pandemic, and what measures they are beginning to take in preparation for the worst.
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How social distancing and quarantine will change work forever

Mar 28, 2020

Working from home used to be a perk for a privileged few, but as businesses are forced to allow their employees to work from home in order to stay afloat, permanent changes are taking place. Once we're allowed to return to our offices, will we want to? Will we have to? The U.S. workforce was already moving in this direction, but slowly. That pace has been sped up exponentially, and how we work is going to be changed forever.
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Coronavirus: how can we improve NHS support?

Mar 28, 2020

"I'm a local GP and, unfortunately, I've been having to self isolate for the past week and a half. I've not been able to get remote access to be able to work from home. There's been no testing for NHS staff and my colleagues on the front line have had to go and buy their own scrubs and eye equipment from DIY stores because the personal protective equipment has not been adequate. I would have thought that these would have been problems that could have been anticipated and dealt with in advance. I would like to know what specific problems people expect the NHS to have in the next few weeks and months and what they think can be done in advance to sort them out."

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with questions from West London and live social media reaction, live at 8:05pm on BBC 1. On the panel: Robert Jenrick MP, secretary of state for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Conservative; Emily Thornberry MP, shadow foreign secretary, Labour; Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the medical journal The Lancet; and Humphrey Cobbold, chief executive officer of PureGym, the UK's leading gym provider.
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The quest for the coronavirus vaccine | Seth Berkley

Mar 28, 2020


When will the coronavirus vaccine be ready? Epidemiologist Seth Berkley (head of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance) takes us inside the effort to create a vaccine for the coronavirus. With clarity and urgency, he explains what makes it so challenging to develop, when we can expect it to be rolled out at scale and why we'll need global collaboration to get it done. (This virtual conversation is part of the TED Connects series, hosted by head of TED Chris Anderson and current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers. Recorded March 26, 2020)
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