02.11.2020

Decennial 2020 research sets the agenda for advancing safe healthcare

NEW YORK (November 2, 2020) — More than 700 studies, including 250 international abstracts, highlighting worldwide progress in preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections and addressing antibiotic resistance were published today as part of the proceedings from the Sixth Decennial International Conference on Healthcare-Associated Infections. The Sixth Decennial, a conference co-hosted by the Centers for Disease…

A.I. tool provides more accurate flu forecasts

Predicting influenza outbreaks just got a little easier, thanks to a new A.I.-powered forecasting tool developed by researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology. By incorporating location data, the A.I. system is able to outperform other state-of-the-art forecasting methods, delivering up to an 11% increase in accuracy and predicting influenza outbreaks up to 15 weeks in…

Covid-19 “super-spreading” events play outsized role in overall disease transmission

CAMBRIDGE, MA — There have been many documented cases of Covid-19 “super-spreading” events, in which one person infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects many other people. But how much of a role do these events play in the overall spread of the disease? A new study from MIT suggests that they have a much larger…

Rapid method finds potent COVID-19 monoclonal antibody among a trillion possibilities

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2, 2020 – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists have discovered the fastest way to identify potent, neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The method–as well as a trio of successful animal studies on an antibody called “Ab1”–are described today in the Proceedings of the National Academy…