Virus

At the 2020 Open Hardware Summit, @1lemore posted a useful link on with information running fully distributed teams. The distributed-playbook is located on GitHub. Some of the information is located on a Google drive that requires permission to access, but much of the accessible text is very good. Other resources include:

• @Sophi 's Virtual Conference Tips for Presenters (Google doc)
• @DrLaurie's Greener Events Summary Post

The nanoHub has the resources to help move a course online and the details are outlined in their blog Moving your course online? nanoHUB can help with lectures and virtual labs.

The Wolfram community has Resources For Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 . This includes

• Reported cases per state
• Data sources
• Computational articles

Wired has a good article on Everything You Need to Know About Coronavirus Testing.

The Washington Post has a good article on Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve”.

The CDC has some useful information on how to Clean & Disinfect locations with suspected or confirmed COVID-19.

Chai makes a personal open source real-time qPCR system. There single channel model is $4500 and the dual channel model is $6500. The system can be used to detect coronavirus on surfaces and is described in a short video.

Opentrons builds bio robots and posted a blog on Testing for COVID-19 with Opentrons that describes how to test for the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and how to build a high throughput testing system for the virus. The plan shows how to build up a system to test 1 million samples by the end of June using 10 labs testing 100,000 samples per week).


Robot system: source Opentrons


Testing ramp to 1 million samples: source Opentrons

The OpenCovid19 Initiative is a program is to collectively develop open-source and low-cost tools and methodologies that are safe and easy to use to fight the Covid19 Pandemic. The project originates from the non-profit Just One Giant Lab (JOGL) headquartered in Paris, France in connection with the Community Bio Initiative at MIT MediaLab and the Open Source Pharma Foundation.

The Wikipedia Crononavirus (CoV) page is a wonderful introduction to virus and is a good place to learn about the name, family of viruses, and the diseases they cause like COVID-19 that were are presently confronted with.


Source: Wikipedia via Alissa Eckert, MS, Dan Higgins, MAMS CDC.