COVID-19 | College of Engineering

Can Droplets be Used to Stop, Instead of Spread, Disease?

ENG, CDC researchers quantify how droplet formation might damage microbes, reducing disease transmission By Patrick L. Kennedy It happens in a flash. As you cough up a thread of the fluid that lines your respiratory tract, it breaks into tiny droplets, as small as a micrometer in diameter. Some of those droplets, or aerosols, might […]

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COVID-19 Risk Assessment to Address Inequity

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This article was written by Eliza Shaw (CISE), videos produced by SE. Informing Policy, Resource Allocation and Workplace Adjustment Policies Video Part 1: Researching the risk of COVID-19 relates to the patients’ preexisting health conditions and socioeconomics factors. COVID-19 has taken the world by storm, placing significant pressures on healthcare systems. Particularly in countries with limited […]

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