Amidst Global Coronavirus Crisis, BU Scientists Are Surging To Help
It’s been a model of teamwork in the face of a global pandemic. Hundreds of Boston University researchers—and their collaborators in Boston and beyond—are throwing everything they’ve got at developing lifesaving measures. Scientists at BU’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) have mobilized to find therapies and vaccines, leveraging NEIDL's ability to house research on live samples of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. And beyond those high-level biocontainment facilities, researchers are working on new and better COVID-19 tests and medical supplies, and trying to understand how the outbreak will alter human lives and our planet—near term and long term. These 12 stories tell just the beginning of how the BU research community has rallied together in an around-the-clock fight against COVID-19. – Kat J. McAlpine, Science Editor, The Brink
Anthropologists find society’s collective “behavioral immune system” goes into overdrive during an outbreak—but young men are least likely to be wary of germs
As markets struggle around the world, Kevin Gallagher, director of BU’s Global Development Policy Center, argues for the International Monetary Fund to distribute special assets
BU School of Public Health hosts expert panels over Zoom to tackle the science, politics, as well as media and mental health implications of the coronavirus pandemic (all past seminars are available to watch on demand)
