Knowing that antibodies as well as viruses bind to certain proteins in certain ways, scientists have come up with a technique to watch both sickness-signaling materials stick to microscopic beads prepared for the purpose.

Demand is sure to outstrip supply when a safe and effective COVID vaccine initially enters mass production. First in line to receive the inoculation should be the 5% slice of the population doing essential work to help fight the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a bad dream in the truest sense of the word—and AI helps to prove it, a team of researchers assert in a study published online Oct. 1 in Frontiers in Psychology.

The emerging academic discipline of social data science, which leverages Big Data to integrate social science with computer science, has a new base of operations in the Mid-Atlantic region.  

During a 12-week peak in the COVID-19 crisis, an 800-bed academic hospital in a frenetic American city admitted more than 9,000 inpatients—including almost 700 with COVID—while letting only two infections sneak in unchecked. 

In total, nine organizations will receive funding as part of the institute's Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics initiative or RADx.

If they hope to survive the COVID healthcare economy, many independent hospitals may need to cut their workforces, slash their expenses, reduce their investments, pull the plug on some clinical service lines—or all of the above.

After reviewing provider reimbursements, an investigative reporter suggests the Trump administration’s low-profile initiative hasn’t been uniformly poor so much as undeniably erratic.