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Covid-19 Interventions Can Cut Virus Infections, Severe Outcomes, and Healthcare Needs
Non-pharmaceutical interventions such as voluntary shelter-in-place, quarantines, and other steps taken to control the SARS-CoV-2 virus can reduce the peak number of infections, daily infection rates, cumulative…
Broad-Based Asymptomatic Testing Program Helps Control Covid-19
An ambitious campuswide testing program aimed at identifying asymptomatic Covid-19 community members has helped limit daily case counts to single digits at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The saliva-based…
Georgia Tech Students Play Key Role in IndieCade’s Global Covid-19 ‘Game Jam’
Students at Georgia Tech's Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center have developed video games and an epidemiological model to raise awareness of ways to reduce the spread of Covid-19 and to illustrate the need for …
Coronavirus Test Kits? We’ve Got A Recipe For That
At the start of the pandemic, a group of Georgia Tech researchers pivoted away from their normal research areas to produce virus test kits for Georgia residents. Now their interdisciplinary efforts to develop a “…
Researchers Redesign the Face Mask to Improve Comfort and Protection
Based on decades of experience with filtration and textile materials, Georgia Technology researchers have designed a new reusable mask that protects wearers and those around them from SARS-CoV-2 while being…