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Isaac Levine, a third-year medical student who was pulled off his clinical rotation when COVID-19 restrictions were put in place, found himself with free time and wanted to do something to help those on the front lines. He joined forces with fellow students Abby Gross and Daniel Li to address the…

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Isaac Levine, a third-year medical student who was pulled off his clinical rotation when COVID-19 restrictions were put in place, found himself with free time and wanted to do something to help those on the front lines. He joined forces with fellow students Abby Gross and Daniel Li to address the…

When the COVID-19 outbreak started to become increasingly prevalent in Northeast Ohio, Mitchell Thom, a first-year medical student at Case Western Reserve University, and his friends were looking for ways to help. The group started discussing how much physicians and health care employees on the…

Further advances hand-held blood-clotting sensor toward commercialization The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted XaTek Inc. a “Breakthrough Devices Designation” for ClotChip, an important step in advancing the company’s portable blood-clotting sensor toward commercialization. The…

University of Washington projection: Coronavirus won’t overwhelm Ohio hospitals and ICU beds Cleveland.com: David Gurarie, professor of mathematics who studies infectious diseases modeling and epidemiology, weighed in on the challenges of modeling the outbreak of diseases: “[In] COVID-modeling at…

Ordering takeout for dinner? How to do it safely in the age of coronavirus Cleveland.com: Shanina Knighton, a clinical nurse scientist and infection preventionist at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, gave thoughts on overlooked aspects of eliminating contact between customers of eateries…

Why are different coronavirus models predicting a wide range of outcomes in Ohio? Cleveland.com: Scott Williams, professor of population and quantitative health sciences, gave thoughts on COVID-19 outbreak models, saying they predict a likely range of outcomes that will happen 95% of the…

Training nurses for the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic Fox 8 News: Irena Kenneley, associate professor in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and expert in infection control and epidemiology of infectious disease and microbiology, describes how nurses and other health care workers…

Time to prepare for voting by mail American Enterprise Institute:Daniel Shoag, an associate professor of economics in the Weatherhead School of Management, wrote about the effect of the coronavirus outbreak on upcoming U.S. elections: “To ensure the smooth functioning of the US electoral system…