Mobilizing Twitter for COVID-19 surveillance

COVID-19 is a worldwide health emergency. Digital disease surveillance, including social media-based technologies, represents an innovative approach that may allow us to better understand and contain its transmission. Here, Bisanzio et al. use geolocation data from Twitter as a proxy for human mobility in order to track the early global spread of COVID-19 cases.

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PRiME Mini Symposium Highlights: U of T Researchers Jump Into Action to Tackle COVID-19

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  • Post published:July 6, 2020
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Highlights from the second iteration of the PRiME COVID-19 mini symposium established to showcase research recently funded by the Toronto COVID-19 Action Fund. This post features research being done to improve the throughput of SARS-CoV-2 testing, to develop robust antibody testing and therapeutics, and the facilities that support this expanding field.

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PRiME Mini Symposium Highlights: U of T Researchers Jump Into Action to Tackle COVID-19

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  • Post published:May 22, 2020
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Highlights from the first iteration of the PRiME COVID-19 mini symposium established to showcase research recently funded by the Toronto COVID-19 Action Fund. Funded projects include the development of core facilities and open access resources, and research on novel antiviral drug targets, identification of host dependency factors, and the advancement of diagnostic and serological tests.

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