Johns Hopkins doctors and nurses fanned out through an Ellicott City nursing home. They tested residents for COVID-19, assessed the health of those who had the disease, talked with staff members about infection-prevention strategies and provided moral support. The facility wasn’t the first in Maryland to contend with COVID-19. But it was one of the … Continued
Johns Hopkins University has announced the launch of the COVID-19 Testing Insights Initiative, a one-stop resource hub that fills the void of publicly-available information about COVID-19 testing data and offers critical insights, resources, and expert analysis about COVID-19 testing around the nation. Through dynamic, continuously updated data visualizations, the Testing Insights Initiative offers a new, … Continued
Johns Hopkins University has launched a data-rich, U.S.-focused coronavirus tracking map, adding to existing efforts that have made the university a go-to global resource for tracking confirmed cases of COVID-19 and related data over the past three months. Created through a multidisciplinary collaboration by experts from across Johns Hopkins, the new map features county-level infection … Continued
For the latest COVID-19 statistics, updated in near real time, millions of people around the world have been turning to an interactive, Web-based dashboard created by a small team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. From its humble beginnings, that dashboard has become one of the world’s most authoritative sources for the latest coronavirus numbers … Continued
A new report released by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security outlines a potential path for moving from strict physical distancing measures to phased reopenings of organizations and settings central to the functioning and vitality of communities across the nation. The report presents a framework for risk assessment of virus transmission in connection with … Continued
Johns Hopkins University Professor of Nursing Jason Farley explains the timeline for vaccine testing and the dangers of a second wave of coronavirus infections later in the year during cold and flu season. He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”
Arturo Casadevall and collaborators at Johns Hopkins and beyond have worked around the clock to develop a convalescent serum therapy to treat COVID-19 using blood plasma from recovered patients. If early promising studies on the therapy done in China are confirmed by U.S. trials, thousands of survivors might soon line up to donate their antibody-rich … Continued
Experts from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health offer science and evidence-based insights on the public health news of the day. The current focus is the novel coronavirus spreading around the world.
Johns Hopkins experts in global public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness have been at the forefront of the international response to COVID-19. This website is a resource to help advance the understanding of the virus, inform the public, and brief policymakers in order to guide a response, improve care, and save lives.
To understand the steps required to develop, test, and produce a COVID-19 vaccine, Sarah LaFave, a PhD candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, spoke with global health expert Ruth Karron, a professor in the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.