Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)


How to fight the pandemic from home | The Deets

Apr 18, 2020

At this point you’re probably aware that the best thing you can do to fight the coronavirus pandemic is to stay home and minimize your contact with other people. But if you’re like me and you’re going crazy because you know you could be doing more to help, keep watching. Staying at home isn’t the only thing you can do to fight coronavirus, and in this video, I’m gonna go over a bunch of stuff that you can start doing right now without leaving the comfort and safety of your home to contribute to the battle against COVID-19.
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Prototype spraying / disinfection robot developed at CSRL-HMU

Apr 21, 2020

Demonstration of a prototype spraying / disinfection robot, developed by the Control Systems & Robotics Laboratory, at the Hellenic Mediterranean University (Heraklion, Greece).

The battery-operated mobile platform carries an electric knapsack sprayer with electronic flow control and a blower unit, mounted on a 2 dof robotic arm. The latter can be controlled to aim the spray at a specific direction or implement programmable sweeping motions. The system also provides for variable spray flow rate, including an operation mode where the flow rate is automatically adjusted in relation to the vehicle's speed.
Due to it's compact size and skid-steer drive, the robot is highly maneuverable and can effectively navigate through indoor as well as outdoor environments.
The current prototype is teleoperated via an R/C transmitter with live video feed from an onboard camera. Semi- or fully-autonomous operation can be obtained with the addition of appropriate sensor suites.
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Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus | AI Podcast #90 with Lex Fridman

Apr 22, 2020

Dmitry Korkin is a professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he specializes in bioinformatics of complex disease, computational genomics, systems biology, and biomedical data analytics. I came across Dmitry's work when in February his group used the viral genome of the COVID-19 to reconstruct the 3D structure of its major viral proteins and their interactions with human proteins, in effect creating a structural genomics map of the coronavirus and making this data open and available to researchers everywhere. We talked about the biology of COVID-19, SARS, and viruses in general, and how computational methods can help us understand their structure and function in order to develop antiviral drugs and vaccines. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.

OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
2:33 - Viruses are terrifying and fascinating
6:02 - How hard is it to engineer a virus?
10:48 - What makes a virus contagious?
29:52 - Figuring out the function of a protein
53:27 - Functional regions of viral proteins
1:19:09 - Biology of a coronavirus treatment
1:34:46 - Is a virus alive?
1:37:05 - Epidemiological modeling
1:55:27 - Russia
2:02:31 - Science bobbleheads
2:06:31 - Meaning of life
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COVID-19 disinfection with HYBRiX drone

Apr 23, 2020

HYBRiX agriculture drone, originally designed to spray liquid in farms has been adapted to spray disinfecting chemicals in public spaces and in impacted areas. Quaternium is also making efforts and its open to help.
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Webinar: drones, hype and COVID-19

Apr 23, 2020

Drones are being used in all kinds of ways in response to the pandemic. But which of these applications actually make sense? Which don't? And which could potentially make sense? This webinar summarizes our findings on the different drone applications being championed in response to the pandemic.
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NASA builds ventilator prototype for Coronavirus patients

Apr 23, 2020

NASA is helping the medical community address the shortage of ventilators needed to treat coronavirus patients with a ventilator prototype. Within 37 days, engineers and others at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California created a high-pressure ventilator prototype tailored to the needs of patients with COVID-19 and sent it to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York for testing.

The device, called VITAL (Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally), is designed to be faster to build and easier to maintain than traditional ventilators, with a fraction of the parts. JPL is now seeking an Emergency Use Authorization for the device from the Food and Drug Administration.
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How Mayo Clinic is using AI to research COVID-19

Apr 24, 2020

Artificial intelligence has a vital role in helping researchers in their efforts to fight COVID-19 and is an important tool in the work being done at Mayo Clinic.

Dr. Andrew Badley is an infectious diseases specialist and leads Mayo Clinic’s COVID-19 Research Task Force. In this Q&A, Dr. Badley answers questions about the task force and the role of artificial intelligence.
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What is contact tracing and why is it important in the fight against COVID-19?

Apr 24, 2020

Contact tracing is one of those terms associated with the COVID-19 pandemic that has seemingly become a part of our everyday language. But it's a public health strategy that's been used for years to combat communicable diseases.

Contact tracing is the process of finding out who has recently been in close contact with a person infected with a virus, such as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and reaching out to those people to let them know they may have been exposed and guide them on what to do next. In some cases, that may include self-isolating to prevent further spread.

Dr. Gregory Poland, a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases expert, explains why contact tracing is important in the fight against COVID-19.
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Symptom list for COVID-19 has been expanded

Apr 27, 2020

COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, affects people in many ways. Early symptoms have included fever, cough and chills. The list of symptoms in people with confirmed COVID-19 disease has expanded since early reports of the disease. "We're learning more about the virus and more about the syndrome that it causes as people have become infected with it," says Dr. Stacey Rizza, a Mayo Clinic infectious disease specialist and researcher.
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Does getting COVID-19 make you immune to It?

Apr 27, 2020

Like a common cold or a cold sore, would it be possible to get a reinfection of COVID-19? Would we be able to build up long-term resistance to it?
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Why is the Coronavirus economic fallout unlike anything we've ever seen?

Apr 28, 2020

The current collapse of the daily global economic activity has never been this rapid. Professor of Economics Nouriel Roubini further explains why the economic fallout from coronavirus is so unprecedented.
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