Public health activities are all the ways society coordinates to deliver better health to people. That may sound super broad, and it is, so in this episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science, we'll take a look at public health works to...

An overview of a simplified version of the DP-3T algorithm for privacy-first contact-tracing

"Ebola threatens everything that makes us human," says Bruce Aylward of the World Health Organization. And when the Ebola epidemic exploded in 2014, it caused a worldwide panic. But humanity can beat Ebola -- and Aylward shows four...

When ebola broke out in March 2014, Pardis Sabeti and her team got to work sequencing the virus's genome, learning how it mutated and spread. Sabeti immediately released her research online, so virus trackers and scientists from around...

Can Contact Tracing Be Private?

Now that we're all wearing masks, we don't have to worry about facial recognition anymore, right? Wrong.

Aaron's back answering your submitted questions about things related to the COVID-19. If you'd like to submit a question for a future episode you can do so at healthcaretriage.info 00:22 MYTH: Vitamin D/vitamin C/Echinacea/essential oils...

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, Dr. Julie Gerberding, chief patent officer at Merck and Dr. David Reese, executive vice president of research at Amgen discuss the race for coronavirus drug development at WSJ Tech Health.

Governments are starting to ease restrictions designed to curb covid-19. But with most of the world still vulnerable to the virus, what's the right way to leave lockdown?

Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, president of The Rockefeller Foundation, discusses the critical steps needed to increase the availability of rapid Covid-19 tests across the country if we're to avoid a widespread second wave of the virus.

Andrew Frame, founder and CEO of Citizen, discusses the huge rise in people monitoring crimes, protests and other happenings in their local community since the start of the pandemic and what it means for society as a whole.

We definitely need to be tracing the contacts of people who have tested positive for coronavirus, so that we can know who else has been exposed. This is a herculean task, but we have to do it. And there are some ideas and practices that...

With the COVID crisis continuing and economic damage worsening, many are considering how to manage the crisis. Like many other countries, the US is planning to spend vast amounts of money to prop up businesses, local authorities, and...

This video explains how contact tracing can be used to life movement restrictions and end lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments around the world have countries in lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak. To ease these...

Kai-Fu Lee, founder and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, discusses the acceleration of the artificial intelligence economy at WSJ Tech Live.

We're all tired of staying home. You've still got a lot of questions about this pandemic. We've got some answers. You can jump directly to a question by clicking on the time stamps below. 0:13 - Should Officeholders Pass Basic Science...

A couple of months ago Apple & Google announced their API to help governments track COVID. Since then Google & Apple have begun rolling out their systems, updating their OS and preparing while governments have begun implementing the...

How can technology help in tracking the spread of the new coronavirus and what were the early warning signs and findings from epicenters like China and South Korea that can serve as a lesson for the U.S.?

Singapore had one of the world's most robust and effective responses to coronavirus and COVID19. Despite that, the country still had to enter lockdown and struggled to control the spread of the disease. What can this tell us about how...

The US has seen a significant increase in the number of COVID cases they're testing but are they doing enough? In this video, we discuss the American COVID testing programme, the issues that are being faced and question whether the...

Health research is difficult for a bunch of reasons. One of those reasons is the practice of using lawsuits to stifle research. A researcher finds that a product is harmful, and the producers of that product attack the researcher in...

How do you balance the need to share your health data for the public good in a pandemic but ensure that your most sensitive data isn't compromised in the testing process? Genomic experts discuss and share perspectives on the outlook for...

Sweden's State Epidemiologist, Dr. Anders Tegnell talks about what lessons can be learnt from Sweden and whether or not a vaccine is the real answer to making people feel safe about a return to work. When will it be ready and will enough...

The NHS is beginning the rollout of a Coronavirus contact tracing app today, but many are concerned about the safety and privacy of the system. Apple & Google have also recently proposed and shared an API, something the UK has ignored in...