4. January 2021
Branco Weiss Fellows tackle the Covid-19 pandemic
In the past few month, many Branco Weiss Fellows have started activities aiming at the Covid-19 pandemic. The viewpoints of these activities are as diverse as the fellowship community itself, starting from epidemiology, going through environmental sciences, and reaching all the way into the humanities. Here is a selection of news:
- Thomas Van Boeckel creates intensive care unit monitoring for Swiss hospitals
- Just “flattening the curve” is not enough, says Moritz Kraemer
- Covid-19 was twice as contagious during the early months than WHO estimates
- Erica van de Waal among 120 scientists urging policymakers to prevent further pandemics
- The humanities must help solve the Covid-19 crisis, says Vanessa Rampton
- Lara Keuck on the need for history of science in the pandemic
- Too far, and yet too close? Solitude and distance in the time of Covid-19
- Thomas Van Boeckel publishes reports on the Covid-19 situation in Switzerland
- Corona – the effect of drastic measures and the importance of robust data
- Moritz Kraemer is mapping the global distribution of the Corona virus