The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting everyone in unprecedented ways. Roughly three months into the situation, we wonder: how will we go on? While no one knows for sure, a mathematician in Spain looks to the universal language of data to predict the future of the crisis. We also look at the different approaches of handling the coronavirus in countries across Europe and beyond.
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Article • The math behind coronaPredicting the future of the Covid-19 pandemic with dataMathematical models can help shed light on the evolution of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Spanish mathematician Juan Luis Fernández Martínez, who predicted Spain could have between 90,000 and 160,000 infected patients. The next trend in ... |
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News • Study: 700,000 cases preventedWhat China got right in the first 50 days of COVID-19China's control measures during the first 50 days of the COVID-19 epidemic may have delayed the spread of the virus to cities outside of Wuhan by several days and, by interrupting transmission nationwide, prevented more than 700,000 infections ... |
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Interview • Chest X-ray, CT and moreImaging the coronavirus disease COVID-19Chest X-ray is the first imaging method to diagnose COVID-19 coronavirus infection in Spain, but in the light of new evidence this may change soon, according to Milagros Martí de Gracia, Vice President of the Spanish Society of Radiology (SERAM) ... |
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News • Coping with Covid-19How France handles the coronavirus pandemicThe first case of the new coronavirus infection was reported on the 24th January. The strategy taken by the French to stem the spread of the virus and relieve the pressure on the health service may seem draconian to some, but many feel that it is ... |
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Article • Public healthThe fight against COVID-19 in the United KingdomThe sunny Sunday of March 22, 2020, may well go down as a watershed date in the context of Coronavirus in the UK. A couple of days earlier, UK schools had closed en masse – open only thereafter for children of key workers – and the British ... |
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Article • Coronavirus chronologyCOVID-19 in the U.S.: Government inaction gave virus a head startThe sense of fear is palpable in the images and videos of hospital intensive care units (ICUs) and emergency departments that are broadcast on television and posted on social media. Fear and heartbreak can be heard in the voices of physicians and ... |
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News • Computer-aided search for substancesVirtual screening for anti-coronavirus drugsThe University of Basel is part of the global search for a drug to fight the rampant coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Researchers in the Computational Pharmacy group have so far virtually tested almost 700 million substances, targeting a specific site on the ... |
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News • Coronavirus duration questionedCOVID-19 symptoms disappear – while the virus itself remainsIn a new study, researchers found that half of the patients they treated for mild COVID-19 infection still had coronavirus for up to eight days after symptoms disappeared. The research letter was published online in the American Thoracic Society’s ... |
Useful links for further COVID-19 information
Map of global COVID-19 cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
Latest updates on the pandemic from the World Health Organization (WHO)
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