The higher a person’s income, the more likely they were to protect themselves at the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Johns Hopkins University economists find. When it comes to adopting behaviors including social distancing and mask wearing, the team detected a striking link to their financial well-being. People who made around … Continued
As the world continues to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, flu season has arrived once again. Watch Lisa Maragakis, senior director of infection prevention at the Johns Hopkins Health System and infectious diseases physician at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Aaron Milstone, associate hospital epidemiologist and pediatric infectious diseases specialist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, … Continued
A new saliva-based test developed by a team at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been found to accurately detect the presence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, from small samples of saliva. Such tests, the results of which can be obtained in a matter of hours, are seen as … Continued
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been jointly awarded a major grant from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to set up a center for research on the human serological immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes … Continued
Johns Hopkins Medicine is moving forward with clinical trials for a potential coronavirus therapeutic at sites across the country, including two in the District. The Baltimore-based health system is studying convalescent blood plasma as both a treatment and defense against Covid-19, after filing its investigational new drug application with the Food and Drug Administration in … Continued
More than 3,000 COVID-19 clinical trials have launched in the past year. That sounds like good news, but many of these are ill-suited for identifying interventions that save lives. Bloomberg School researchers have responded with strategies that can better distinguish clinically meaningful signals from confounding statistical noise. Many COVID-19 trials have too small a sample … Continued
Inspired by the Drake equation, fluid mechanics experts from the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering have developed a formula to answer the question of the moment: What determines someone’s chances of catching COVID-19? In a paper published in the Physics of Fluids, the researchers present a mathematical model to estimate the risk of airborne … Continued
Bloomberg School’s Ellen MacKenzie spoke with the nation’s top infectious diseases expert in the first installment of the university’s Health Policy Forum series. The series is jointly sponsored by the schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, and the Carey Business School. It is designed to bring together JHU faculty, students, and operational experts with … Continued
The United States reported more than 69,000 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the highest daily count the nation has reported since late July. The U.S. has now reported more than 8 million Covid-19 cases and at least 218,600 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
In this episode of the Bloomberg Businessweek podcast, Dr. Megan Collins, Assistant Professor of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, discusses safely reopening schools amid the pandemic.