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This special coronavirus section shares Weizmann Institute of Science research, expert opinion, education resources, and news. Our scientists are already conducting investigations that could improve testing and diagnosis techniques and provide new strategies for prevention and treatment – including a possible COVID-19 vaccine. We are committed to advancing research to protect and preserve the health and well-being of everyone, everywhere.

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How Are You Feeling? Surveys Aim to Detect Covid-19 Hot Spots Early
The New York Times
Teams of epidemiologists and computer scientists on three continents have started mass population surveys to try to get ahead of the coronavirus and ensure that scarce diagnostic tests, and even scarcer ventilators, are sent where they can do the most good.

April 01, 2020
Coronavirus
Can A Two-Day Workweek Eradicate Coronavirus?
Calcalist
Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have developed a new model for containing the spread of Covid-19 while also maintaining economic activity. The key, they say, is a two-day workweek.

April 01, 2020
Coronavirus
Coronavirus by the Numbers
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—March 31, 2020—Numerical data sometimes reveal facts that are otherwise concealed within an onslaught of information from an overwhelming number of sources.

March 31, 2020
Coronavirus
Intermittent Lockdown
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—March 31, 2020—Think of dieting. You can fast for two months and lose weight, but you will probably die. Even if you survive, you will quickly gain weight again. Similarly, a two-month lockdown will suppress the coronavirus, but it will kill the economy. Lockdown will push hundreds of millions of people globally into unemployment and poverty.

March 31, 2020
Coronavirus
Coronavirus: The Quest for Solutions – Weizmann UK Hosts Dr. Nir London: Looking for a Cure
In this videoconference presentation, Dr. Nir London of the Weizmann Institute’s Department of Organic Chemistry describes what he calls the “COVID Moonshot.” The project is co-led by Frank van Delft of Oxford University and Diamond Light Source (the U.K.’s synchrotron science facility), who was also on the call. Dr. London discusses various approaches to coronavirus, including the value of standard approaches such as vaccines and antivirals.

March 30, 2020
Coronavirus
How do healthy cells defend themselves against a virus?
Weizmann Compass
In fighting a virus, our immune system adopts different strategies depending on the threat, but how? Prof. Ido Amit and colleagues in Italy have found a protein that issues instructions for mounting an anti-viral defense.

March 30, 2020
Coronavirus
Towards a drug against COVID-19
Weizmann Compass
An initiative co-led by Dr. Nir London has brought together drug-development experts – from academia in four countries to biotech and contract research organizations to specialized software companies – to accelerate development of a COVID-19 treatment.

March 30, 2020
Coronavirus
British-Israeli Project Aims to Identify Anti-COVID-19 Drug in “Weeks”
The JC
Israeli and British scientist are pioneering a revolutionary method of scientific research that could see a candidate for an anti-coronavirus drug emerge “within weeks.”

March 27, 2020
Coronavirus
Coronavirus: The Quest for Solutions – It’s a Revolution: Massive Ramp-Up in Safer Testing
In just one week, Profs. Ido Amit and Eran Elinav, both of the Department of Immunology, have built one of the highest-tech labs in the world. They developed a new type of PCR testing that is tremendously fast: if current capabilities test one patient at a time, the new method can test all of Israel simultaneously. The scientists intend to make their method available to anyone who needs it.

March 25, 2020
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