by Emily Haag | Apr 8, 2021 | Outbreak.info
COVID-19 dominated the news cycle of 2020. SARS-CoV-2 variants took over news feeds in 2021. For the past year, researchers around the globe have been coming together to openly share data and resources, fighting the pandemic from a unified front. The global...
by Emily Haag | Feb 17, 2021 | Outbreak.info
With coronavirus mutations overtaking the news cycle, fear and uncertainty are spreading as efficiently as the virus itself. Viruses are expected to evolve and mutate. Not all mutations are meaningful. Scientists have already recorded hundreds of mutations across...
by Emily Haag | Feb 10, 2021 | Outbreak.info
The Center for Viral Systems Biology at Scripps Research is tracking the prevalence of new strains of SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, in an interactive dashboard for viewing daily reports.As concerns surrounding several COVID-19 variants have been...
by Emily Haag | Jan 15, 2021 | Outbreak.info
Hundreds of thousands of open source COVID-19 publications, preprints, clinical trials, protocols, and other resources have been published in the past year. With a high volume of new journal articles and preprints emerging every day, trying to keep up with new...
by Emily Haag | Dec 29, 2020 | Outbreak.info
In the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak, websites started emerging that pulled and visualized epidemiology data. This had tremendous value, as researchers could quickly visualize epidemic curves for varying locations to get a sense of how the virus was spreading....
by Emily Haag | Dec 7, 2020 | Outbreak.info
Finally, biomedical researchers have a single tool that can compare locations and epidemic curves, access datasets, find doubling rates, and search for publications. Outbreak.info standardizes and aggregates COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 data for easy access1.Outbreak.info...