TIME speaks with Christopher Gill, MD, an associate professor of global health at Boston University School of Public Health, about the ways the COVID-19 virus can spread human to human, whether the virus is airborne, and if transmission makes a difference indoors versus outdoors.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, BU is temporarily housing those who house the homeless. The University has opened an empty student residence on the Fenway Campus to 75 employees of Pine Street Inn, the nonprofit operating numerous Boston shelters and residences for short- and long-term homeless people.
Virologist Robert Davey will screen thousands of drugs for effectiveness against COVID-19 infection Scientists at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), led by microbiologist Robert Davey, this week started suiting up to conduct research on live samples of the novel coronavirus, the first team in Boston to start such work on the global … Continued
The Center for Regenerative Medicine at BU’s Medical Campus has converted into an all-out operation running same-day COVID-19 tests for Boston Medical Center Scrolling Twitter late at night on March 12, George Murphy noticed a desperate tweet coming from the feed of his friend and fellow researcher Lea Starita of the University of Washington. She … Continued