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Category: COVID-19

Beware This COVID-19 Vaccine ‘Study’ From an 80s Teen Tech Titan and a Carnivorous Plant Smuggler

GHI Associate Director Jim Conway and GHI Advisory Committee Member Ajay Sethi are quoted in the Daily Beast.

Anxiety, hope, trust and slowing the spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories

A conversation with UW-Madison professor and GHI Advisory Committee member Ajay Sethi about making sense of the coronavirus crisis in a sea of misinformation

Study shows cats can contract, spread coronavirus

In a study published today (May 13, 2020) in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists in the U.S. and Japan report that in the laboratory, cats can readily become infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and may be able to pass the virus to other cats. Professor of Pathobiological Sciences at the …

Beyond Summer 2020: Safety Abroad in a Recovering World

What happens to international education programs in a time of COVID-19? GHI’s Christopher Olsen and James Conway and UW’s Ronald Machoian look at risks, moving ahead.

Are states coordinating or going rogue in COVID-19 attack? Wisconsin shows a mix of both

GHI Associate Director James Conway discusses with the Journal Times.

How India can be a world leader in making a Covid vaccine and keeping it cheap too

Krishna Ella, a member of the GHI Board of Visitors, discusses with The Print.

UW-Madison faculty, students help create a COVID-19 app for Wisconsinites

COVID-19 Wisconsin Connect, a free desktop and mobile app that provides accurate information, social support and helpful resources to Wisconsinites, launches today. The Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison developed the app in partnership with government, academic, medical, business and community organizations statewide. The desktop app can be accessed …

Primatologists work to keep great apes safe from coronavirus

GHI Associate Director Tony Goldberg talks with Science about the coronavirus danger to apes and efforts to protect them and local people.

Flu ‘backbone’ headstart for COVID vaccine development: Krishna Ella

Krishna Ella, a member of the GHI Board of Visitors, is building a COVID vaccine on a flu vaccine ‘backbone.’

COVID-19: A wake-up call for the need for new antiviral weapons

Morgridge researcher says we need to understand how viruses, produce new ways to arrest their spread and potentially prevent or more quickly quell future pandemics.