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The Rockefeller Foundation Launches COVID-19 Modeling Accelerator 04.14.21 Fast-Tracks Medical Research into Real World Decision-Making Tools NEW YORK | April 14, 2021 – The Rockefeller Foundation announced the creation of the COVID-19 Modeling Accelerator and the first cohort of projects. This new initiative, which is designed to enable world-class academic research, is expanding access to the latest data, critical decision-making tools, and actionable solutions for state and local policy makers, public health officials, medical care staff, and others working to stop the COVID-19 crisis...

Advertisement New York: With coronavirus infections rising and a contagious new variant threatening to accelerate the pandemic, France has implemented a stringent 6pm to 6am curfew. Citizens nationwide are sequestered indoors, and businesses must close down. In Quebec, Canadian officials imposed a similar restriction earlier this month, running from 8pm to 5am. It has frayed nerves: Notably, a woman who was walking her boyfriend on a leash at 9pm has argued that this was permitted during the curfew, surely one of the pandemic’s most unexpected moments. Police officers patrol a street in ...

A restriction more often used in natural disasters, or to quell unrest, has never been tested against a pathogen like the virus.

CHICAGO, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Large variations in exposure at home, in the community and at work rather than case-fatality rates may explain the well-documented racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality during the first wave of the pandemic last spring, according to a University of Michigan (UM) study.