Explore a collection of Michigan Tech research dedicated to issues related to COVID-19 and the coronavirus pandemic.

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Submissions from 2024

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Digital public sphere's role in COVID-19 mitigation in Zimbabwe: Government-citizen engagement, Kedmon Hungwe, Ashley R. Rakatsinzwa, and Felix Mukono

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Changes to Rural Migration in the COVID-19 Pandemic☆, Julia K. Petersen, Richelle Winkler, and Miranda H. Mockrin

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Utilizing Rapid Hydrogen Peroxide Generation from 6-Hydroxycatechol to Design Moisture-Activated, Self-Disinfecting Coating, Seyedehfatemeh Razaviamri, Sneha Singh, James Manuel, Zhongtian Zhang, Lynn M. Manchester, Caryn Heldt, and et al.

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Spatio-temporal characteristics of particulate matter in Delhi, India due to the combined effects of fireworks and crop burning during pre-COVID festival seasons, Mainak Thakur, Subhojit Mandal, Prakkash Manohar, and Snehamoy Chatterjee

Submissions from 2023

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‘Being able to work has kept our life fairly constant:’ reconciling social practice models to assess the impact of (infra)structural inequities on household wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sonya Ahamed, Chelsea Schelly, Kristin Floress, William Lytle, Holly Caggiano, Cara L. Cuite, Charles Wallace, Ryan Cook, Rebekah Jarvis, Rachael Shwom, and David Watkins

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A fairness assessment of mobility-based COVID-19 case prediction models, Abdolmajid Erfani and Vanessa Frias-Martinez

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Physical Activity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness as Modulators of Health Outcomes: A Compelling Research-Based Case Presented to the Medical Community, Barry A. Franklin, Isaac J. Wedig, Robert E. Sallis, Carl J. Lavie, and Steve Elmer

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COVID-19 pandemic lockdown modulation of physico-chemical parameters of surface water, Karamana river basin, Southwest India: A weighted arithmetic index and geostatistical perspective, S. P. Prasood, M. V. Mukesh, K. S. Sajinkumar, and K. P. Thrivikramji

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Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Ambient Air Quality in the Southwest Coastal Urban Regions of India, George Thomas, Jobin Thomas, R. S. Devika, Anju Krishnan, Anju V. Mathew, and Amrutha J. Nair

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Physical Activity and Exercise with Blood Flow Restriction as Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond, Isaac J. Wedig

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Blood flow restriction as a potential therapy to restore physical function following COVID-19 infection, Isaac J. Wedig, John J. Durocher, John McDaniel, and Steve Elmer

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Promoting Physical Activity in Rural Communities During COVID-19 with Exercise is Medicine®on Campus, Isaac J. Wedig, Jamie J. Phillips, Kelly Kamm, and Steve Elmer

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The Impact of Health Behaviors on Community Wellbeing and Resilience: Teaching K-12 Students Using Jenga!, Kyle W. Wehmanen, Felix E. Cottet-Puinel, Tyler C. Hampton, Gwyn T. Hamlin, Isaac J. Wedig, and Steve Elmer

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High-purity polypropylene from disposable face masks via solvent-targeted recovery and precipitation, Jiuling Yu, Aurora del Carmen Munguía-López, Victor S. Cecon, Kevin L. Sánchez-Rivera, Kevin Nelson, Jiayang Wu, Shreyas Kolapkar, Victor M. Zavala, Greg W. Curtzwiler, Keith L. Vorst, Ezra Bar Ziv, and George W. Huber

Works from 2022

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A novel drone-based system for accurate human temperature measurement and disease symptoms detection using thermography and AI, Ahmed Al Maashri, Ashraf Saleem, Hadj Bourdoucen, Omer Eldirdiry, and Ahmed Al Ghadani

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Breaking out of the lecture rut: Using Zoom to build classroom connections, Nancy Barr

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Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Mediated Changes in Jejunum and Peripheral SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 and Associated Proteins or Genes in Rhesus Macaques, Nongthombam Boby, Xuewei Cao, Kelsey Williams, Shiva Kumar Goud Gadila, Monica N. Shroyer, Peter J. Didier, Sudesh K. Srivastav, Arpita Das, Kate Baker, Qiuying Sha, and Bapi Pahar

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VR-OnSite—Online Site Visits Using Web-Based Virtual Environments, Ricardo Eiris, Yuan Sun, Masoud Gheisari, Brent Marsh, and Pasi Lautala

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Leading at the Edge During COVID-19: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Pandemic Preparedness, Steve Elmer and Kelly Kamm

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Promoting physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic in a rural and medically underserved region, Steve Elmer, Isaac J. Wedig, Isaac Lennox, and Kelly Kamm

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Satirical Comedy Does COVID-19: John Oliver as Science Journalist, Shelly A. Galliah

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Concurrent Session 1 The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Education, Mariia Goncharova

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Weaving Academic Grace into the Fabric of Online Courses and Faculty Training: First-Year Engineering Student Advice for Online Faculty During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Faculty Responses, Michelle E. Jarvie-Eggart, Amanda Marie Singer, Marika Seigel, Mary Raber, Thomas M. Freeman, Brett Hamlin, Amy Hamlin, and Michael R. Meyer

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UVC and far-UVC light disinfection ground robot design for sterilizing the coronavirus on vertical surfaces, Alireze Mohammadi, Austin Kucharski, and Nathir Rawashdeh

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Overcoming supply disruptions during pandemics by utilizing found hardware for open source gentle ventilation, S. Oberloier, N. Gallup, and J. M. Pearce

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Prophylaxis and Remediation for Future Pandemic Pathogens-(Lessons from a Post-COVID World), Mark E. Obrenovich, Moncef B. Tayahi, Caryn L. Heidt, and Steven N. Emancipator

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Illuminated Devices: A Sociotechnical System to Broaden Access to Digital Assistance, Dana Pontious, Kirk Thelen, Briana Christina Bettin, Kelly S. Steelman, Leo C. Ureel II, and Charles Wallace

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Commentaries on Viewpoint: COVID-19 controls causing a kerfuffle, Mohammed S. Razzaque, Suhaila Karim Jaser, Raul Cosme Prado, Kaitlin A. Freeberg, Katelyn R. Ludwig, Daniel H. Craighead, Matthew J. Rossman, Anumeha Bhagat, Joshua M. Bock, Chad C. Wiggins, Jonathon W. Senefeld, Isaac J. Wedig, Steve Elmer, and Kelly Kamm

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The 2020 global stock market crash: Endogenous or exogenous?, Ruiqiang Song, Min Shu, and Wei Zhu

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Online site visits using virtual collaborative spaces: A plan-reading activity on a digital building site, Yuan Sun, Gilles Albeaino, Masoud Gheisari, and Ricardo Eiris

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Non-uniform effect of COVID-19 lockdown on the air quality in different local climate zones of the urban region of Kochi, India, George Thomas, Jobin Thomas, Anju V. Mathew, R. S. Devika, Anju Krishnan, and Amrutha J. Nair

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Fully Three-Dimensional Radial Visualization, Yifan Zhu, Fan Dai, and Ranjan Maitra

Works from 2021

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Single-particle characterization of SARS-CoV-2 isoelectric point and comparison to variants of interest, Oluwatoyin Areo, Pratik U. Joshi, Mark Obrenovich, Moncef Tayahi, and Caryn L. Heldt

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Trajectories in Turmoil: A Case Study of Engineering Students' Reactions to Disruptions in Their Community of Practice, Nancy Barr and Jaclyn Johnson

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Trajectories in Turmoil: A Case Study of Engineering Students’ Reactions to Disruptions in Their Community of Practice, Nancy Barr and Jaclyn E. Johnson

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Constructing collective identities and solidarity in premiers’ early speeches on COVID-19: a global perspective, Martina Berrocal, Michael Kranert, Paola Attolino, Júlio Antonio Bonatti Santos, Sara Garcia Santamaria, Nancy Henaku, Aimée Danielle Lezou Koffi, Camilla Marziani, Viktorija Mažeikienė, Dasniel Olivera Pérez, Kumaran Rajandran, and Aleksandra Salamurović

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Correction: Constructing collective identities and solidarity in premiers’ early speeches on COVID-19: a global perspective (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, (2021), 8, 1, (128), 10.1057/s41599-021-00805-x), Martina Berrocal, Michael Kranert, Paola Attolino, Júlio Antonio Bonatti Santos, Sara Garcia Santamaria, Nancy Henaku, Aimée Danielle Lezou Koffi, Camilla Marziani, Viktorija Mažeikienė, Dasniel Olivera Pérez, Kumaran Rajandran, and Aleksandra Salamurović

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Measuring the Impact of the COVID-19 Shutdown on Great Lakes Water Quality Using Remote Sensing, Karl Bosse, Michael Sayers, Robert Shuchman, John Lekki, and Roger Tokars

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Session 2C Increased Sanitation Due to COVID-19 Poses a Dilemma for Waste Management, Sydney Castellanos

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Applied Cryptography in Computer and Communications, Bo Chen and Xinyi Huang

Age-Stratified COVID-19 Spread Analysis and Vaccination: A Multitype Random Network Approach, Xianhao Chen, Guangyu Zhu, Lan Zhang, Yuguang Fang, Linke Guo, and Xinguang Chen

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Age-Stratified COVID-19 Spread Analysis and Vaccination: A Multitype Random Network Approach, Xianhao Chen, Guangyu Zhu, Lan Zhang, Yuguang Fang, Linke Guo, and Xinguang Chen

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Session 2F The benefits of nature on human health during the COVID-19 pandemic, Erica Eason, Zoe Goldenberg, Emily Hayden, Kennedy Little, Madeline Moss, and John Schalk

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Rural Community Health: Keeping Michigan's Upper Peninsula Informed During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Steve Elmer, Lydia Lytle, and Kelly Kamm

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S-STEM Student Reflections and IDP Process, Laura Kasson Fiss, John L. Irwin, and Yin Yin Tan

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Rebuild the Academy: Supporting academic mothers during COVID-19 and beyond, Robinson W. Fulweiler, Sarah W. Davies, Jennifer F. Biddle, Amy J. Burgin, Emily H.G. Cooperdock, Torrance C. Hanley, Carly D. Kenkel, Amy Marcarelli, Catherine M. Matassa, Talea L. Mayo, Lory Z. Santiago-Vàzquez, Nikki Traylor-Knowles, and Maren Ziegler

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Equity in Designing a Summer International Research Experience: Recruitment and Partnerships for a Graduate Field School in El Salvador, John S. Gierke, Luke Bowman, Emily Clark, Kari B. Henquinet, and Angie Carter

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Engaging Students in Synchronous, Remote, or Hybrid First-Year Engineering Courses, A. J. Hamlin, Amber J. Kemppainen, Amanda Marie Singer, Nathan Manser, Michelle E. Jarvie-Eggart, and Ken Thiemann

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Session 2F Daily Nature Activities for School Children in the COVID-19 Era, Ryann Hartung

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Building a healthier information environment during COVID-19, Ashley L. Hawke, Xinqian Chen, Isaac M. Lennox, Carmen J. Scarfone, Isaac J. Wedig, Jamie J. Phillips, Kelly Kamm, and Steve Elmer

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Impact of Online Worksheets Versus In-class Printed Worksheets on Students’ Learning Outcomes and Content Mastery, Paniz Khanmohammadi Hazaveh and Linda Wanless

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‘I can’t breathe’: the biopolitics and necropolitics of breath during 2020, Stefka Hristova and Amy L. Howard

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Moving hands-on mechanical engineering experiences online: Course redesigns and student perspectives, Jaclyn E. Johnson and Nancy B. Barr

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Schools as vectors of infectious disease transmission during the 1918 influenza pandemic, Don Lafreniere, Timothy Stone, Rose Hildebrandt, Richard C. Sadler, Michael Madison, Daniel Trepal, Gary Spikberg, and James Juip

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U.S. Potential of sustainable backyard distributed animal and plant protein production during and after pandemics, Theresa K. Meyer, Alexis Pascaris, David Denkenberger, and Joshua M. Pearce

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Progressive global perception and local polishing network for lung infection segmentation of COVID-19 CT images, Nan Mu, Hongyu Wang, Yu Zhang, Jingfeng Jiang, and Jinshan Tang

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Authors from all over the world share their tech in HardwareX to battle COVID-19, Joshua M. Pearce

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The May 19, 2020, Failure of Edenville Dam near Midland, Michigan, Daniel Pradel, Adam Lobbestael, Colin N. Brooks, Richard Dobson, Nicholas Marion, Thomas Oommen, and et. al.

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Experimental determination of the acoustical effects of face masks on speech effort, Noah N. Schumaker and Andrew R. Barnard

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The ‘COVID’ crash of the 2020 U.S. Stock market, Min Shu, Ruiqiang Song, and Wei Zhu

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First Year Engineering Student Advice for Succeeding in Online Courses, Amanda Marie Singer and Michelle E. Jarvie-Eggart

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Student Preference: ONLINE or Face-To-Face Instruction in a Year of COVID-19, Jon Sticklen and Susan L. Amato-Henderson

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Effects of 8-week active mindfulness and stress management on decentering and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic, Aditi Vyas, Erich Petushek, Brigitte Morin, and John J. Durocher

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A Blockchain-Based Human-to-Infrastructure Contact Tracing Approach for COVID-19, Danxin Wang, Xianhao Chen, Lan Zhang, Yuguang Fang, and Chuanhe Huang

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A Blockchain-Based Human-to-Infrastructure Contact Tracing Approach for COVID-19, Danxin Wang, Xianhao Chen, Lan Zhang, Yuguang Fang, and Chuanhe Huang

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Lung segmentation and automatic detection of COVID-19 using radiomic features from chest CT images, Chen Zhao, Yan Xu, Zhuo He, Jinshan Tang, Yijun Zhang, Jungang Han, Yuxin Shi, and Weihua Zhou

Works from 2020

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U.S. Has the Most Coronavirus Cases, but …, Oren M. Abeles

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Sex differences in self-report anxiety and sleep quality during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, Jeremy Bigalke, Ian Greenlund, and Jason R. Carter

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The energy crises revealed by COVID: Intersections of Indigeneity, inequity, and health, Kathleen Brosemer, Chelsea Schelly, Valoree Gagnon, Kristin L. Arola, Joshua M. Pearce, Douglas Bessette, and Laura Schmitt Olabisi

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COVID-19: effective policymaking depends on trust in experts, politicians, and the public, Paul Cairney and Adam Wellstead

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Moving student research forward during the COVID-19 pandemic, Steven J. Elmer and John J. Durocher

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Parametric nasopharyngeal swab for sampling COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses: Open source design, SLA 3-D printing and UV curing system, Nicole Gallup, Adam M. Pringle, Shane Oberloier, Nagendra G. Tanikella, and Joshua M. Pearce

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Parametric nasopharyngeal swab for sampling COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses: Open source design, SLA 3-D printing and UV curing system, Nicole Gallup, Adam Pringle, Shane Oberloier, Nagendra Gautam Tanikella, and Joshua M. Pearce

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Three Years After Rollout: A Report on Systemic Changes in a First-Year Engineering Program, A. J. Hamlin, Amber J. Kemppainen, Brett Hamlin, Norma Veurink, and Jon Sticklen

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‘Coronated’ Consumption in the Viral Market, Soonkwan Hong

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Conversion of self-contained breathing apparatus mask to open source powered air-purifying particulate respirator for fire fighter COVID-19 response, Benjamin R. Hubbard and Joshua M. Pearce

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Conversion of self-contained breathing apparatus mask to open source powered air-purifying particulate respirator for fire fighter COVID-19 response, Benjamin R. Hubbard and Joshua M. Pearce

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Distributed manufacturing of open source medical hardware for pandemics, Joshua M. Pearce

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A review of open source ventilators for COVID-19 and future pandemics., Joshua M. Pearce

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Partially RepRapable automated open source bag valve mask-based ventilator, Aliaksei Petsiuk, Nagendra G. Tanikella, Samantha Dertinger, Adam Pringle, Shane Oberloier, and Joshua M. Pearce

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Improving the efficacy of Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine against SARS-CoV-2 may require Zinc additives - A better synergy for future COVID-19 clinical trials, Mujeeb Olushola Shittu and Olufemi Ifeoluwa Afolami

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Open source high-temperature RepRap for 3-D printing heat-sterilizable PPE and other applications, Noah G. Skrzypczak, Nagendra Gautam Tanikella, and Joshua M. Pearce

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Open source high-temperature RepRap for 3-D printing heat-sterilizable PPE and other applications, Noah G. Skrzypczak, Nagendra G. Tanikella, and Joshua M. Pearce

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Continuous viral vaccine manufacturing and viral detection strategies, Dylan G. Turpeinen

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Infographic. Stay physically active during COVID-19 with exercise as medicine, Isaac J. Wedig, Tristan A. Duelge, and Steven J. Elmer