The sudden widespread use of technology as a result of the pandemic may put us in a complicated situation later down the road. Countries with no prior infrastructure for certain technologies have had to adapt over a short time, causing both disruption and advancement. Could COVID-19 technology backfire on us? Working from home, remote meetings, […]
Adnan Kayyali
Junior social media strategist with a degree in media and communication. Technology enthusiast and freelance writer. Favorite hobby: 3D modeling.
Governments, leaders, and officials need a method to enable countries to keep on living with the virus for an extended period of time. Many predict that nations will be moving in and out of lockdown until a vaccine is introduced, which may take many more months. In the meantime, communities will need clear guidelines to […]
The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company is hard at work to deliver the second best thing to a vaccine we can hope for to nursing homes across the US. The company is going around elderly homes testing patients and staff for COVID-19, and administering their COVID-19 ‘mobile-lab’ treatment, as well as extracting antibodies from […]
COVID-19 isn’t going anywhere for a while. Researchers warn that we may have to start getting used to living with COVID-19 well into 2021 and possibly 2022. A UN report as well as interviews with several university professors and researchers sheds some light onto our situation, and the way out. Promising leads on vaccines are […]
Novoic, a startup founded by Oxford and Cambridge researchers, is developing a COVID-19 screening app that can screen people for COVID-19 by listening to the sound of their cough, aptly named “Coughvid”. The company that previously used speech analysis technology to detect cognitive impairments and diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, is now turning its […]
A new Google data cable running along the Atlantic sea bed is to be launched connecting New York to the seaside town of Bude England and the city of Bilbao in northern Spain, which is set to be completed in 2022. Named the ‘Grace Hopper’ cable after the computer scientist and US Navy rear admiral. […]
Finding a vaccine is only half the battle; global supply chains and pharmaceutical logistics face many unprecedented challenges amid the pandemic. A logistical supply system capable of overcoming distribution pitfalls needs to be robust, sturdy, innovative, smart, interconnected, and transparent. In regard to the global supply networks, The World Economic Forum said, “Governments, businesses and […]
The pandemic has hit countless industries in ways that few were prepared to handle, disrupting global production and supply chains with devastating results. Pharmaceutical companies are among the worst hit, at a time when the fast and efficient manufacturing and procurement of pharmaceutical drugs is essential. However, pharmaceutical industry digitization may just hold the answer. […]
Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine has been deemed ‘safe’ in provoking an immune response against the virus after the first and second stages of clinical trials with optimistic results. Conclusions drawn from a recent publication by The Lancet medical journal and stated in a video on the University’s official YouTube channel: “We have 2 different types […]
The University of California Health has created a shared data set for COVID-19 research that would accelerate development of treatments and vaccines. The shared data set, dubbed UC CORDS, centralizes data from UC’s 6 health systems used statewide, and provides care for millions of patients yearly. As such, the data points from the patients’ health […]