pandemic

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DOE funds pandemic tracking software

December 14, 2022 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — The Department of Energy has awarded $5 million to create tools to increase the nation’s level of preparedness for biological threats — including an infection rate tracking program for COVID-19 developed by a Sandia National Laboratories team in 2020. Jaideep Ray and Cosmin Safta developed an approach...

Categories: Computing

Topics: biothreat, computing, COVID-19, pandemic, Sandia National Laboratories

Reusable respirator could ease COVID-19 medical mask shortages

April 1, 2021, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Many medical professionals and other essential, front-line workers have struggled for the past year with persistent shortages of N95 masks. Soon, they might get relief from a Sandia National Laboratories invention — a comfortable, reusable, sterilizable respirator that could ease demand during current or future health crises....

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Coronavirus, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: aerosol science, COVID-19, mask, n95, pandemic, respirator