Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Grant Awarded to Virginia Tech Researchers
Complex, ill-structured, and thorny challenges require a convergence of expertise to advance beyond disciplinary boundaries and develop new frameworks for ...
Tag: Pandemic
Arcturus Awarded $63.2M to Advance Self-amplifying mRNA Vaccine for Pandemic Influenza Response
$63.2 Million base award to fund development from preclinical stage through Phase 1 over three-year period. A lower-dose, freeze-dried, pandemic influenza ...
As New Zealand Relaxes Restrictions, Steps Can Still Be Taken to Limit COVID Infections
New Zealanders are about to enjoy cautiously relaxed COVID restrictions under the country’s COVID-19 Protection Framework, starting from this weekend. ...
Like COVID, TB is a Pandemic and Must be Treated as an Emergency
In 1993, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared tuberculosis (TB) a global public health emergency. It urged nations to coordinate ...
U.S. Delivers Additional Vaccines and Freezer Trucks to Bangladesh for COVID Vaccination Efforts
The U.S. Donates Another 10 Million Pfizer Vaccines to Bangladesh; U.S.-Donated Doses Now Exceed 38 Million The U.S. donated an ...
NIAID Pandemic Preparedness Plan Aims to Bolster Studies for ‘Prototype’ Pathogens
According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' new Pandemic Preparedness Plan, the institute will direct its preparedness ...
Building Better Antivirals for the Next Pandemic
New research shows for the first time why the antiviral drug remdesivir works against some viruses but not others—a finding ...
Air Force Medics Continue COVID-19 Response in Civilian U.S. Hospitals
Even with the availability of the COVID-19 vaccine to significantly reduce the chances of severe illness and hospitalizations, there are ...
Why You Can’t Find Cheap At-Home Covid Tests in the U.S.
While developing a rapid test that detects the coronavirus in someone’s saliva, Blink Science, a Florida-based startup, heard something startling: ...
Is COVID-19 Here to Stay? What It Means for a Virus to Become Endemic
Now that kids ages 5 to 11 are eligible for COVID-19 vaccination and the number of fully vaccinated people in ...
Preparing for a Future Pandemic with Artificial Intelligence
A hallmark of artificial intelligence is its ability to learn from the past. As researchers advance and refine AI applications, ...
After India’s Brutal Pandemic Wave, Two-Thirds of Population Has Been Exposed to SARS-CoV-2
India emerged in June and July of 2021 from a particularly savage second wave of COVID-19, with total confirmed cases ...
Novel Coronavirus Circulated Undetected Months Before First Cases in Wuhan, China
Using molecular dating tools and epidemiological simulations, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues at ...
New Evidence COVID-19 Antibodies, Vaccines Less Effective Against Worrisome Variants
New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that three new, fast-spreading variants of the virus ...
Texas Biomed Scientists Partner with DoD to Test SARS-CoV-2 Decontamination Technologies
Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) received two Department of Defense's (DoD) Defense Health Agency subcontracts to assess the efficacy ...
AstraZeneca Vaccine: Careless Talk Has Dented Confidence and Uptake in Europe
At the start of the year, one of the main causes of the EU’s slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccines was ...
3 Innovations Fueled By COVID-19 That Will Outlast the Pandemic
A number of technologies and tools got a chance to prove themselves for the first time in the context of ...
Strengths and Challenges of Responding to Dual Disasters: Pandemics and Hurricanes
A new study of how the 2020 major hurricanes and the COVID-19 pandemic affected each other as well as disaster ...
5 Strategies to Prepare Now for the Next Pandemic
While the world is still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, public health and emergency management experts are already preparing for ...
US Must Unify Atmospheric Biology Research or Risk National Security
In the United States, research and monitoring of airborne organisms is split between an array of federal agencies. The USDA ...
