Search terms related to COVID-19 are highly correlated with the trends in COVID-19 daily incidence and deaths in the U.S. The prediction-models based on the search interest trend reached moderate to good accuracies.

STANFORD, April 19 (WNM/Stanford University) – A serological study by Stanford University (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1) found antibodies in 50 to 85 times more people than previously thought in Santa Clara County, California, resulting in a COVID-19 lethality of 0.12% to 0.2% or even lower.  In a new video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGUgrEfSgaU), John P. A. Ioannidis, Professor in Disease Prevention […]

Researchers with the Embedded Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne are developing a diagnostic test on a smartphone app that works by “listening” to the sound of the user’s cough.

Research shows that using paper towels is substantially more effective than jet dryers for removing microbes when still contaminated hands are dried.

Study suggests testing and contact tracing and population behavioral changes – measures which have far less disruptive social and economic impact than total lockdown – can meaningfully control COVID-19.

MIT researchers design antibody-like receptor proteins that can bind to cytokines, as possible strategy for treating coronavirus and other infections.

China’s government has started asserting tight control over COVID-19 research findings.

There is growing evidence that COVID-19 can have serious effects on organs far beyond the lungs.

The University of Alberta virology lab found that a drug originally meant for Ebola is effective against a key enzyme of coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Remdesivir is already in human trials in search for treatment of the deadly disease.

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara’s Solid State Lighting & Energy Electronics Center are developing ultraviolet LEDs that have the ability to decontaminate surfaces — and potentially air and water — that have come in contact with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.