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Global and local prevention and handling of a widespread infectious disease, with focus on COVID-19
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What is our purpose with this Quest?
- To create agile, interactive, and complete overviews and roadmaps of the technologies driving progress on handling and preventing COVID-19 and future epidemics, and then help accelerate that progress
How?
- The publicly available databases and roadmaps we create as a community help align all entities working on solutions and identify where to focus efforts and resources for maximum impact
- Enable anyone, even non-technical people, to take action to fight COVID-19 with science, technology, and innovation via these tasks
- Provide an open source pre-projecting platform to nurture ideas and breed innovation for new and improved solutions
- This all leads to making the most of our global resources, collaboration, and impact to accelerate progress on the most ideal, affordable, and sustainable solutions
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May 19, 2020
Using bioinformatics tools, a team led by Shane Crotty and Alessandro Sette, immunologists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, predicted which viral protein pieces would provoke the most powerful T cell responses. They then exposed immune cells from 10 patients who had recovered from mild cases of COVID-19 to these viral snippets. Photo: NIAID
May 19, 2020
Study subjects who received Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine had positive early results, according to the biotech company, which partnered with the National Instit...
May 15, 2020
An overview of the current scientific progressions of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidates.
May 15, 2020
Mouthwashes vary widely in composition; however, some commercially available formulations contain ethanol at 14-27% (w/v) in the UK, Europe and US. This article reviewed the available scientific literature to establish whether oral treatment using ethanol-based or other types of mouthwashes could present a strategy to either dampen or reduce viral load, to potentially restrict virus transmission in the current pandemic situation, particularly for vulnerable individuals or healthcare workers. Photo source: huffingtonpost
May 04, 2020
💧 Spit 💡 Shine 💻Compute - Check out our article on the fascinating 5 minute, €15 COVID-19 testing solution in development by Copenhagen Nanosystems!
May 01, 2020
Candidates are speeding toward human trials
Apr 30, 2020
Eight ways in which scientists hope to provide immunity to SARS-CoV-2 .
Apr 29, 2020
A quick look into the global state of testing for COVID-19, with links to resources for going deeper into understanding the advantages and disadvantages of testing solutions available now as well as a sampling of some of the promising solutions in-development
Apr 27, 2020
COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Sameeksha (Hindi; review) compiles recent key IPC resources on COVID from scientific journals, WHO guidelines, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare /Government of India guidelines, and trainings and IPC resources. The intended target audience for this includes clinical and public health professionals in both public and private sector in India.
Apr 27, 2020
As one of the world's biggest vaccine makers, India could play a big role in stopping the virus.
Apr 20, 2020
Rutgers university in NJ is using saliva to test for Covid-19 for a more efficient and safe testing method. Testing has been approved, Dr. Andrew Brooks is the chief operating officer and director of technology at the Rutgers lab. Other links on the subject include- (((ABC News Article and info on expanding testing))) https://abcnews.go.com/Health/scientist-saliva-test-breakthrough-sees-bridge-nationwide-coronavirus/story?id=70174505 (((Testing Summary PDF))) https://www.fda.gov/media/136875/download
Apr 20, 2020
How do different tests for COVID-19 work? An expert on diagnostics from the Mayo Clinic breaks it down for you.