Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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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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Article "'It’s a razor’s edge we’re walking': inside the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine"
Around the world, more than 40 teams are working on a vaccine for Covid-19. We followed one doctor in the most urgent quest of his life.

by Samanth Subramanian
March 27, 2020

 

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Article "UN, WHO & Mila Map the AI vs COVID-19 Battlefield"
Researchers looks at current studies that are using AI to tackle the COVID-19 crisis and suggests some promising future research directions.

March 27, 2020

 

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Article "AI Weekly: Coronavirus prompts call to service for ML talent"

by Khari Johnson
March 27, 2020

 

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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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Article "AI Can Help Us Fight Infectious Diseases In A More Effective Way"

by Margaretta Colangelo
March 27, 2020

 

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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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Article "It’s Too Late to Avoid Disaster, but There Are Still Things We Can Do"
Our leaders need to speak some hard truths and then develop a strategy to prevent the worst.

by Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker
Dr. Osterholm is an infectious-disease expert. Mr. Olshaker is a writer and documentary filmmaker.
March 27, 2020

 

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USNS Comfort Departs Naval Station Norfolks, Va. Next Stop - NY City

Mar 29, 2020

NORFOLK, Va. (March 28, 2020) –The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) departs Naval Station Norfolk, Va. March 28, 2020. Comfort is deploying 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-based hospitals to focus their efforts on COVID-19 cases. One of the Department of Defense’s missions is Defense Support of Civil Authorities. DoD is supporting the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 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. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathan Clay)

 

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Article "Debate flares over using AI to detect Covid-19 in lung scans"

by Casey Ross and Rebecca Robbins
March 30, 2020

 

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Article "Australian-designed artificial intelligence set to aid diagnosis of coronavirus"

by Sophie Scott
March 30, 2020

 

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Article "Kaggle Competition Aims AI at COVID-19"
A challenge on the data science community site Kaggle is asking great minds to apply machine learning to battle the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

by Jessica Davis
March 30, 2020

 

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Hospitals made from shipping containers could help fight Coronavirus | COVID-19

Mar 31, 2020

Modular hospitals made from repurposed shipping containers could help medical systems meet the challenge of the fight against coronavirus.

 

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Article "Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool predicts which coronavirus patients develop respiratory disease"
Symptoms were typically mild to begin with, including cough, fever and stomach upset.

March 31, 2020

 

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Article "Element AI’s search tool surfaces curated coronavirus studies"

by Kyle Wiggers
March 30, 2020

 

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A Message about COVID 19 from CHSS President Joseph A Dearani

Mar 31, 2020

An important message about COVID-19 from Dr. Joseph Dearani, Director of Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiac Surgery and President of the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society (CHSS)

 

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Working toward a COVID-19 vaccine

Apr 1, 2020

The push to create a vaccine that prevents people from contracting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, continues. Dr. Stacey Rizza, a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases specialist, says developing a vaccine takes research, money and time.

"Everyone wants to have a vaccine ready right now," says Dr. Rizza. "Researchers around the globe and at Mayo Clinic are working as fast as they can to make it happen. But before we have a vaccine for general use, we have to make sure it is properly developed and tested."

Dr. Rizza says that Mayo Clinic is heavily involved in vaccine development for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, investigating several different approaches. In addition, Mayo Clinic is in discussions with biotechnology firms and pharmaceutical companies about co-developing and testing additional vaccine possibilities.

 

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WHO provides update on COVID-19 (April 1, 2020 full press briefing)

Apr 1, 2020

The World Health Organization (WHO) offers an update on the state of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic around the world.