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As people rush to stockpile provisions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, stores have placed restrictions on the purchase of basic goods and medicines.
Researchers from across the University of Florida and UF Health have joined an urgent effort to collect and donate personal protective equipment, or PPE, to build upon existing stockpiles in support of clinical colleagues on the frontlines of treating COVID-19.
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A mathematical modeling group including investigators from the UF Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infections Diseases worked with the World Health Organization and Florida Department of Health on modeling the pandemic globally.
“It’s probably going to just continue to rise exponentially for a couple of weeks,” said Ira Longini, co-director of the Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases at the Emerging Pathogens Institute of the University of Florida.
"We're trying to figure out who is ill or who has had significant exposure, and then keep them from getting around other folks," Haley said.
"There’s a lot that we don’t know, but we’re trying to get that information and see if it can inform policy as we move ahead," Lauzardo said.
"The most important question we're trying to determine is how any people have the virus but are showing no symptoms at all," Dr. Michael Lauzardo, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Florida said.
“You need to assume that you’re carrying the virus, and you need to assume everybody else is carrying the virus," Hudak said.
Karen Hicklin's research is focused on mathematical modeling of stochastic systems with an emphasis on statistical and decision analysis.