Safe Paths is a community-led movement to develop free, open-source, privacy-by-design tools for individuals, public health officials, and larger communities to flatten the curve of COVID-19, reduce fear, and prevent a surveillance-state response to the pandemic. Alex Pentland, a computer scientist at MIT – along with a team of epidemiologists, engineers, data scientists, digital privacy … Continued
An app that tracks where you have been and who you have crossed paths with—and then shares this personal data with other users in a privacy-preserving way—could help curb the spread of COVID-19, says Ramesh Raskar at the MIT Media Lab, who leads the team behind it. Called Private Kit: Safe Paths, the free and … Continued
Companies like Alnylam, Moderna, and Thermo Fisher are mobilizing As Massachusetts braces for a surge of patients infected with the coronavirus, the state is playing an outsize role in the global fight against the pandemic. Companies in the state are scrambling to develop and distribute potential vaccines, drugs, and diagnostic tests.
In many parts of the world the COVID-19 pandemic is causing shortages in hospital space, staff, medical supplies, and equipment. Severe cases may require breathing support, but there are only so many ventilators available. With that in mind, MIT is working on FDA approval of an emergency ventilator system (E-Vent). They have submitted the design … Continued
Repurposing a drug used for blood clots may help COVID-19 patients in danger of respiratory failure, researchers suggest Researchers at MIT and the University of Colorado at Denver have proposed a stopgap measure that they believe could help COVID-19 patients who are in acute respiratory distress. By repurposing a drug that is now used to … Continued
The White House announced March 23 the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, a collaboration among various industry, government, and academic institutions which will aim to make their supercomputing resources available to the wider research community, in an effort to speed up the search for solutions to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic. Participants include: … Continued