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An epidemiologist explains the term "R0" and how many people one person with the coronavirus can infect.
At Penn, researchers are ramping up their efforts to study the coronavirus.
Tulane virologist Robert Garry, PhD, and a team of researchers analyzed the genome sequence of the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineered.
CMU researchers who, upon learning their labs were required to temporarily close in the ongoing effort to stop the spread of COVID-19, sought to donate their PPE to health care workers on the front-lines of the fight against the new coronavirus.
To accommodate and comply with social distancing guidelines and prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University class of 2020 cancelled its traditional Match Day celebration and replaced it with a Facebook Live Match Day event so its fourth-year students could share and celebrate their residency match assignments in real time