To gain the public’s trust, experts say officials should work with community members when they develop contact tracing programs.
Molecular biologist Christian Happi is working around the clock to get testing available throughout the continent.
Today in America, you have Covid-19 bringing biblical plague to the black community. The job loss is already at depression level, and now you have civil unrest following the killing of George Floyd. We must build a cradle to career set of supports for children, improve housing and health care, and ultimately help support and strengthen families and neighborhoods.
Crisis Text Line
With the COVID-19 pandemic driving a mental health emergency, a service providing support for people in crisis via text messages is speeding up expansion plans to add four new languages in the next two and a half years.
Recent experiences with Ebola are fresh in peoples’ minds across West and Central Africa, as are those with TB and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa. As a result, African countries understand the need for regional coordination in overcoming public health challenges.
CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, Kwame Owusu-Kesse and New York Times Education Reporter Eliza Shapiro join Stephanie Ruhle to discuss the lasting impact of closing schools and the argument to open them up as soon as possible.
For the past six years, bioengineers at MIT and Harvard have been developing sensors that can detect viruses including the ones that cause Zika and Ebola. They're adapting their technology to screen for the new coronavirus.
Scientific endeavors to better understand SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, have progressed rapidly. Within weeks of the virus emerging in humans, scientists had already identified it and sequenced the virus’s genome, giving researchers a target on which to train potential vaccines and treatments.
The OSU Center for Health Sciences is supporting a Project ECHO telemedicine platform to connect with more than 150 rural healthcare providers across the state, offering peer support and education on COVID-19 care.
Fast Grants, a project designed by Tyler Cowen, quickly gets money to scientists leading promising coronavirus research.
Kristy Hixon is a teacher in Forth Worth, Texas, who volunteers at theCrisis Text Line, a texting “hotline” for people dealing with anxiety, depression, loneliness or any other mental health issue. As the pandemic has triggered anxiety and isolated millions of people, volunteers like Hixon have been receiving an increasing number of coronavirus-related texts, many from kids who are stuck at home and going through all sorts of crises.
As the COVID-19 pandemic tightens its grip on more countries around the world, tech solutions that help to deliver services remotely have become integrated into the response.
We’ll send you news and updates on how ideas are taking shape.
