COVID-19 Research
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What’s Your Story: Weishung Liu
| Johannes Gehrke 和 Weishung Liu
Principal PM Manager Weishung Liu shares how a career delivering products and customer experiences aligns with her love of people and storytelling and how—despite efforts to defy the expectations that come with growing up in Silicon Valley—she landed in tech.
新闻报道 | Microsoft in Business Blogs
Safer sharing of health records with SMART Health Cards
Built on Microsoft Azure, WA Verify uses SMART Health Cards to display vaccination records as a verifiable QR code that can be printed or stored on a mobile device. SMART Health Cards are a secure alternative to inconvenient and easily…
新闻报道 | Global Epidemics
New Analysis Shows Vaccines Could Have Prevented 318,000 Deaths
A new analysis by researchers at Brown School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Microsoft AI for Health shows that vaccines could have prevented at least 318,000 Covid-19 deaths between January…
One tragic fact about the nearly 1 million people who died of COVID-19 in the U.S. is that a huge share of them didn’t have to.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working on a proposal to massively scale-up testing and contact tracing to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. This effort will involve identifying all of those infected with the coronavirus and notifying everyone…
新闻报道 | Daily Mail
COVID-19 public health measures such as social distancing led to a nearly 40% decrease in emergency room visits for pink eye
Researchers at Microsoft worked together with Researchers at the University of Washington. During the pandemic, fewer people sought out care for pink eye due to coronavirus-inspired social distancing, increased handwashing and other health measures. Researchers analyzed both emergency department visits…
| Peter Lee
The genetic sequence for COVID-19 was first published in January 2020. Before the end of the year, new vaccines—which typically take five to ten years to develop—were approved for emergency use in multiple nations. This astounding achievement is emblematic of…
新闻报道 | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Q&A: Peter Lee on the COVID-19 pandemic, societal resilience and crisis-response science
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended every aspect of society and, at the same time, the urgent need for a response has spurred collaboration, innovation and creativity. Microsoft has created a Resilience series to highlight some of the research projects, technologies…
新闻报道 | New York Times
Coronavirus Can Set Off a ‘Cytokine Storm.’ These Drugs May Calm It
At least a dozen treatments are being evaluated for virus patients whose immune systems go on the attack. Many coronavirus patients seem to get better at first, then rapidly decline and are overtaken by an overwhelming immune response that causes…