Population and Public Health
pandemic
Vasileios Nittas, an epidemiologist from the University of Zurich, explains the importance of technology in the middle of a pandemic.
The new maps will be able to look at co-location, movement and social interaction data.
The test was designed to identify specific antibodies in order to detect if a patient has had coronavirus in the past.
The new website and app were born out of a partnership with Apple, the CDC, the White House Coronavirus Task Force and FEMA.
This morning MassChallenge hosted a virtual summit focused on innovation and the coronavirus.
The new tool aims at collecting data from people in their homes.
Facebook also plans to hold a virtual hackathon focused on COVID19.
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[Since this article was published, the FDA has released an alert warning that it has not yet authorized any COVID-19 home testing kits]
Early data from the roughly 100,000-participant effort suggest infrequent social distancing and regional behavior disparities (as of March 15).