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Brown study: Stay-at-home orders slowed COVID-19 spread PROVIDENCE — Stay-at-home orders appear to have strongly slowed the spread of COVID-19, according to research recently published in the Journal of

Brown research teams mobilize to investigate COVID-19 solutions Brown’s new COVID-19 Research Seed Fund is supporting 15 teams of faculty researchers who are working rapidly to develop solutions that could impact the world’s response to the pandemic.

“When Dr. Kurtis asked me if I was willing to help make viral transport media for COVID-19 I asked, ‘when can I start?’” Sunthorn Pond-Tor said. Pond-Tor and other staff in the lab of Jake Kurtis, chair of the Department of Pathology, are making 5,000 vials of VTM so that the state Department of Health can conduct COVID-19 tests.

Faculty and staff have also donated 4,000 N95 masks and other PPE for local health care workers.

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Coronavirus Concerns: Should you stop going to the gym? As concerns about the coronavirus continue to spread throughout the country and beyond, many gyms are having to step up their cleaning tactics.

Global Public Health professor, Angela Bengston, PhD in the news: "However, infectious disease specialists like Angela Bengston, Ph.D., an assistant professor of epidemiology at Brown University, say you should think twice before going to the gym.

'I would say that the time for social distancing is now.'"

Coronavirus Concerns: Should you stop going to the gym? As concerns about the coronavirus continue to spread throughout the country and beyond, many gyms are having to step up their cleaning tactics.

Global Public Health professor quoted in the New York Times, "'Since most cases are mild, and testing has not been universal, almost by definition we are failing to detect and therefore count all of the cases,' said Mark Lurie, an associate professor of epidemiology at Brown University."

How Deadly Is Coronavirus? What We Know and What We Don’t The disease is still so new, and testing so limited, that the usual methods of analysis epidemiologists rely on are not yet viable.

Making your own hand sanitizer: ‘Just don’t,’ experts say With stores saying shelves are empty and online pharmacies being out of stock, some people have resorted to making their own, with recipes popping up all over the internet.