7
Oct
2020
Learning From COVID-19: The Lessons For Real World Data
The COVID-19 crisis created an urgent need for healthcare data. For starters, it was necessary to characterize the spread of the pandemic. Quickly, reports were needed on the capacity of healthcare facilities responsible for care of the severely afflicted. Then there was the urgent need to assess the trajectory, and outcomes, of patients admitted to hospitals. The profound difficulty our... Read More
7
Oct
2020
Seeing COVID-19 in Context: Applying Spatial Biology to the Lungs
It’s worth looking back on what is known about the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which was first detected in the US in mid-January, when a man traveled from Wuhan, China to Seattle. Nearly 10 months later, a tremendous amount of knowledge has been gathered about the virus, how it is transmitted, and the disease symptoms it causes. We know, for instance, the... Read More