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Nurses load a dead body into a Red Cross wagon during 1918 Spanish flu outbreak
Q+A
How pandemics shape society
Published April 9, 2020
Sociologist and historian Alexandre White discusses how past pandemics, such as the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak, have reverberated long after the disease stops spreading
Illustration of tweets around the globe
COVID-19
Twitter data gives social distancing insights
Published April 9, 2020
Researchers are using Twitter's publicly available location data to determine how well the residents of each state are adhering to social distancing guidelines
Illustration of coronavirus, blood cells, and plasma
Treating COVID-19
A fast-tracked therapy shows promise
Published April 8, 2020
Arturo Casadevall and his team have worked around the clock to develop a convalescent serum therapy using blood plasma from recovered patients
Nurse in PPE looks out window
Q+A
Nurses face tough decisions, moral distress
Published April 6, 2020
Nursing ethics expert Cynda Rushton discusses the conditions and decisions encountered daily by nurses wrestling with the health care challenges posed by COVID-19
Illustration of a brain with leaves and greenery
Q+A
Managing mental health during a pandemic
Published April 6, 2020
Bloomberg School professor Dani Fallin discusses the psychological and emotional challenges that arise during social distancing
The Thai government aired Kanacharoen's Covid-19 video on Channel 5 as part of an effort to spread accurate information about the disease across the nation.
VIRAL VIDEO
Student's video becomes educational tool
Published April 6, 2020 Video
After noticing misinformation in the news, Hopkins junior Jessie Kanacharoen created a COVID-19 video explainer for her family in Thailand. The video has spread throughout her home country, amassing thousands of views.
Bag of blood plasma
Treating COVID-19
Hopkins gets FDA approval to test blood plasma therapy
Published April 3, 2020
The treatment uses the blood sera from recovered COVID-19 patients to treat those who are critically ill or to boost immunity for those at high risk of contracting the disease
COVID-19 illustration
COVID-19 misinformation claiming to be from Johns Hopkins circulates widely
Published April 3, 2020
Message billed as 'excellent summary' of coronavirus information has no identifiable connection to Johns Hopkins, has been labeled 'misattributed' by Snopes
Rama Chellapa
Interdisciplinary scholar
AI pioneer named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Published April 3, 2020
Rama Chellapa's work in computer vision, pattern recognition, and machine learning has a range of applications—including medicine
A member of the Italian army guards Piazza Campo de Fiori, which appears almost completely deserted amid the coronavirus outbreak
COVID-19 study examines how people respond to stay-at-home orders
Published April 2, 2020
After learning stay-at-home orders would be in place for less time than expected, Italians said they were more likely to comply with the measures