NEIDL in the News
Scientists In Boston Drop Ebola Research, For Now, To Focus on Coronavirus
Original article from WBUR by Barbara Moran. March 25, 2020 Boston University announced last week that some scientists at their National Emerging Infectious Disease Lab (NEIDL) will temporarily suspend their work on Ebola to begin studying SARS-CoV-2, better known as the coronavirus. Virologist Robert Davey is leading the effort. Next week, Davey... More
Boston University lab conducting research on live samples of coronavirus
Original article from WCVB. March 25, 2020 A Boston University lab is the only one in New England with a live sample of COVID-19, according to The Boston Globe. The school's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Lab won approval in 2017 to study some of the most infectious specimens. That move caused controversy in... More
How the Pandemic Will End
Original article from The Atlantic by Ed Yong. March 25, 2020 Three months ago, no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now the virus has spread to almost every country, infecting at least 446,000 people whom we know about, and many more whom we do not. It has crashed economies and broken... More
BU Lab To Use Live Coronavirus To Test Thousands Of Drugs For Treatment
Original article from CBS Boston by Lisa Gresci. March 25, 2020 A Boston lab that studies some of the most dangerous microbes in the world is now part of the fight against the coronavirus. Scientists at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories in the South End have had their hands on... More
Microbiologist testing drugs on live coronavirus sample: ‘I’m very optimistic we can find something’
Original article from Fox News by Yael Halon. March 25, 2020 A Boston University microbiologist who will begin testing potentially life-saving drugs against a live sample of the coronavirus told "Bill Hemmer Reports" Wednesday that he is "extremely optimistic." "We will take drugs that are already out there on the market to test them and see if they... More
Controversial BU Lab is only one in New England with live Coronavirus
Original article from The Boston Globe by Jonathan Saltzman. March 24, 2020 Millions of people are doing everything possible to avoid the COVID-19 virus. Robert Davey couldn’t wait to get his hands on it. When he did last Thursday, the Boston University microbiologist was wearing heavy-duty rubber gloves and an air-tight pressurized... More
Coronavirus did NOT come from a lab: Experts debunk myths that Chinese or American military engineered COVID-19 as a bio-weapon
Original article from Daily Mail by Marlene Lenthang. March 23, 2020 Experts are debunking the conspiracy theories that claim the coronavirus wreaking havoc across the globe is a bio-weapon engineered in a lab. Theories have floated that COVID-19 is actually a man-made disease created by either China or the US with destructive... More
How the Coronavirus Became an American Catastrophe
Original article from The Atlantic by Alexis C. Madrigal & Robinson Meyer. March 21, 2020 How many people are sick with the coronavirus in the United States, and when did they get sick? These are crucial questions to answer, but they have never been answered well. Archived data from the Centers for... More
Get a Peek inside the Search for COVID-19 Drugs
Original article from Futurity by Boston University. March 23, 2020 Last week, scientists at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories started suiting up to conduct research on live samples of the novel coronavirus. This type of emergency—a fast-spreading virus outbreak—is precisely what the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), now in its... More
Massachusetts life-sciences industry at forefront of worldwide fight against coronavirus
Original article from The Boston Globe by Felice J. Freyer & Jonathan Saltzman. March 19, 2020 As Massachusetts braces for a surge of patients infected with the coronavirus, the state is playing an outsize role in the global fight against the pandemic. Companies in the state are scrambling to develop and distribute... More
Live Coronavirus Research Gets Underway at BU NEIDL
Original article from The Brink by Kat J. McAlpine. March 19, 2020 Scientists at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), led by microbiologist Robert Davey, this week started suiting up to conduct research on live samples of the novel coronavirus, the first team in Boston to start such work... More
Coronavirus: 11 Psychological reasons why we hoard toilet paper in a crisis
Original article from InVerse by Sofia Quaglia. March 18, 2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic rages, frantic shoppers everywhere are stocking up for the long road ahead. Canned goods, hand sanitizer, cleaning products, bottled water are all hot-ticket items. But there is perhaps nothing in so high demand as toilet paper. Turns out the... More
This Is Everywhere You Should Be Sanitizing In Your Hotel
Original article from Washington Post by Natalie B. Compton. March 13, 2020 With infectious-disease experts saying that the worst of the coronavirus outbreak is yet to come, many organizations and companies have suspended nonessential travel for employees. President Trump restricted travel from Europe for 30 days, and several cruise lines have... More
Experts: Here’s what we know about the new coronavirus
Original article from Futurity by Jessica Colarossi. March 12, 2020 As the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus is climbing around the globe, researchers are racing to learn more about the novel coronavirus and how it spreads. To bring the community up to speed, Boston University infectious disease experts Nahid... More
7 Steps We Can Take Right Now To Slow the Spread of Coronavirus, According to Infectious Disease Experts
Original article from The Boston Globe by Deanna Pan. March 11, 2020 By now, we’ve all heard about “social distancing," the public health measures we should to be taking to slow the exponential spread of the coronavirus by avoiding close contact with other people. "We have reached a tipping point where the... More
Novel Coronavirus Leads To Questions At WGBH News Forum
Original article from WGBH by Kevin G. Andrade. March 8, 2020 Discussion of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 dominated the Boston Museum of Science Sunday as WGBH News' All Things Considered host Arun Rath moderated a panel on the topic titled "A Community Conversation On Coronavirus." "I feel excited about this, not only... More
The Conspiracy Theories about the Origins of the Coronavirus, Debunked
Original article from Vox by Eliza Barclay. March 4, 2020 The signs that the small, scattered coronavirus outbreak in the United States could spiral into a larger-scale problem are growing. A new analysis, first reported by STAT, found there are likely now 500 to 600 (mostly undetected) cases of Covid-19, the... More
How the Greater Boston Biomedical Community is Tackling the Coronavirus
Original article from The Boston Globe by Ronald B. Corley, George Q. Daley, Penny M. Heaton, Arlene H. Sharpe, and Bruce D. Walker. March 5, 2020 The number of novel coronavirus cases is growing rapidly. The infectious pathogen SARS-CoV-2 — and Covid-19, the often-serious disease it can cause — has already... More
COVID-19: What You Should and Shouldn’t Do Now
Original article from Futurity. March 4, 2020 The outbreak of COVID-19, which began in China in December, has since migrated across borders and oceans to at least 47 countries and has resulted in nearly 3,000 global fatalities. Last week, world stock markets tanked over the economic fallout resulting from the spread... More
Coronavirus Is Here. Will Quarantines Help? (Audio w-Nahid Bhadelia)
Original audio from Short Wave on NPR by Maddie Sofia. March 4th, 2020 China has told millions of its citizens to stay home; Italy has locked down entire towns; and yet the coronavirus keeps popping up in new places. With cases now reported in numerous states, from California to Massachusetts, Short... More