Interventions such as voluntary shelter-in-place, quarantines and other distancing strategies to control the SARS-CoV-2 virus can reduce the peak number of infections and other outcomes, a new case study has found.

Covid-19 Interventions Can Cut Virus Infections, Severe Outcomes, and Healthcare Needs

Atlanta, GA

Interventions such as shelter-in-place taken to control the SARS-CoV-2 virus can reduce infections and overall deaths.

Georgia Tech student Emily Crawford holds a test kit containing a vial being scanned as part of the registration process for surveillance testing. (Credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech)

Broad-Based Asymptomatic Testing Program Helps Control Covid-19

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An ambitious campuswide testing program aimed at identifying asymptomatic Covid-19 community members is limited daily case counts.

The LoCHAid uses widely available, off the shelf components that together cost less than $1 in bulk quantities. (Credit: Craig Bromley)  

Ultra-Low-Cost Hearing Aid Could Address Age-Related Hearing Loss Worldwide

Atlanta, GA

Researchers have developed an ultra-low-cost hearing aid to help the hundred of millions of people with age-related hearing loss.

Turgay Ayer, George Family Foundation Early Career Professor and associate professor, ISyE

New Tool Can Detect COVID-19 Outbreaks in U.S. Counties

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Using machine learning, the online tool can predict outbreaks in different counties across the U.S.

Details of a redesigned face mask developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology are modeled on this mannequin.  (Credit, Christopher Moore, Georgia Tech)

Researchers Redesign the Face Mask to Improve Comfort and Protection

Atlanta, GA

Researchers have redesigned the face mask to make it comfortable and able to protect both the wearer and those nearby.

Researchers have shown that they can accurately assess blood loss by measuring seismic vibrations in the chest cavity and by detecting changes in the timing of heartbeats. That could lead to development of a smart wearable device that could be carried by ambulance crews and medics and made available in emergency rooms and surgical facilities.

Wearable Device Could Help EMTs, Surgeons Assess Hemorrhage Blood Loss

Atlanta, GA

A new device under development could help first responders more accurately assess the effects of blood loss due to hemorrhage.

COVID Central is a web app to help students, faculty, and staff check for symptoms of Covid-19, access links to important campus coronavirus resources – including the NOVID exposure app – and track infection reports in the campus community.

COVID Central App Checks Symptoms, Provides Links to Key Campus Resources

Atlanta, GA

COVID Central is a web app designed to help the Tech community check for Covid-19 symptoms and access key resources.

An electron microscope image of a particle of SARS-CoV-2, which is the virus that causes COVID-19. The prominent spikes give the coronavirus its name and are being targeted some efforts to develop a vaccine against it. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Cynthia S. Goldsmith and A. Tamin.)

Antibody Research Could Boost Coronavirus Testing, Therapies, and Vaccines

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Georgia Tech researchers are working with colleagues at the CDC to produce coronavirus antibodies that could lead to improved testing techniques.

Robin Mauldin, RN, BSN, wears a face shield at Prisma Health Medical Group in Columbia, South Carolina. The shield was produced through a manufacturing effort launched by Georgia Tech and supported by a group of industrial collaborators. (Prisma Health Midlands Foundation)

1.8 Million Face Shields Delivered to Protect Medical Workers from Covid-19

Atlanta, GA

An initiative launched by Georgia Tech and supported by a community of companies has helped produce nearly 2 million face shields.

Transmission electron microscopic image from the first U.S. case of COVID-19. The spherical viral particles, colorized blue, contain cross-section through the viral genome, seen as black dots. (Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

COVID-19 Info Dashboards Come to the CDC With Georgia Tech Help

Atlanta, GA

New dashboards at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are sorting public health data to make it more productive, with the help of researchers from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).