Craig has helped develop face shields and ventilators that have been drawn up and designed with advice from clinicians in hospitals and emergency rooms across Atlanta. And he is currently helping construct a foldable box that serves as a shield to protect healthcare workers while they perform intubations.
A trio of Atlanta healthcare and research institutions will play a leading role in helping to evaluate potential Covid-19 tests as part of a new federal initiative designed to rapidly transform promising technology into widely accessible diagnostic tools to detect the virus.
An interactive dashboard that estimates Covid-19 incidence at gatherings in the U.S. has added a new feature: the ability to calculate county-level risk of attending an event with someone actively infected with Covid-19. Previously, the dashboard estimated exposure for different size events by state.
An ambitious campuswide testing program aimed at identifying asymptomatic Covid-19 community members has helped limit daily case counts to single digits at the Georgia Institute of Technology, which currently has approximately 7,400 students living on campus and several thousand more students, faculty, and staff commuting to learn and work there each day.
School of Biological Sciences undergraduates will (safely) study and genetically sequence antibodies to the coronavirus as part of their coursework.
Disinformation on Covid-19 spreads almost faster than the disease.To ensure Americans can find the most accurate information, College of Computing researchers are creating machine learning and data science tools to help fact-checkers be more efficient.