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'Hope and pray that we make it through': COVID-19 underscores vulnerability of remote communities April 21, 2020
Donny Morris faced an extra hurdle as he raced to keep his tiny, fly-in community safe, healthy and stocked with crucial supplies in the face of the COVID-19 crisis: an unusually warm winter and an early closure for a 700-kilometre ice road in northern Ontario.
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COVID-19 discriminates against Black lives via surveillance, policing and lack of data: U of T experts April 21, 2020
The claim that COVID-19 and its associated medical and social responses do not discriminate belies the history of how pandemics work and who is most impacted by them. States of emergency show that citizenship privileges some, is partial for others and disappears others.
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U of T plays leading role in effort to develop COVID-19 treatment from recovered patients' blood plasma April 21, 2020
Researchers at the University of Toronto are playing a leading role in a national effort to study the efficacy of using blood plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients to treat those who are sick with the disease.
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Vivek Goel’s COVID-19 podcast (Ep. 8): Contact Tracing April 21, 2020
If you haven’t encountered the term already, you can expect to hear a lot more about “contract tracing” in the weeks and months to come as experts debate how and when to lift social distancing measures.
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What is solidarity? During coronavirus and always, it's more than 'we're all in this together': U of T expert April 20, 2020
Medical researchers around the world are involved in an unprecedented collaboration to test experimental treatments for COVID-19.
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Urban density and disease: U of T historian on whether COVID-19 will influence city planning April 20, 2020
How will COVID-19 impact Toronto in terms of city planning? Will it change how the city grows?
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U of T to support 31 high-impact coronavirus research projects through Toronto COVID-19 Action Fund April 20, 2020
The University of Toronto will support 31 research projects through the $8.4-million Toronto COVID-19 Action Fund – set up less than a month ago to support high-impact research by U of T and its hospital partners that contributes to the global fight against the novel coronavirus.
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U of T researchers use mini-computer to remotely monitor COVID-19 patients' blood oxygen April 17, 2020
A team from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering has created a simple, scalable solution to remotely monitor the vital signs of COVID-19 patients, while preserving vital personal protective equipment (PPE) for health-care workers.
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U of T precision medicine initiative launches task force to fight COVID-19 April 17, 2020
The University of Toronto’s precision medicine research initiative, PRiME, has launched a new task force mobilizing research to tackle the immense challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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